I finally bought a Wii U console.

[Shauna]

Really? I did not know that. xD

Oh well.

[Mirage]

we seem to be getting a lot of dibs on nintendo things lately. they don't even have xenoblade on the eshop there yet.

[Zanmato]

Maybe I'm gonna piss some Nintendo fans here, but I have to tell you one thing...
This big-ass "controller" is the worst one in the whole world.
How can you play games using this?!

PlayStation controllers are the most comfortable among the others to me.
I'm not the Sony fanboy anymore, it's an honest statement based on my experience with other consoles.

The only good controllers from Nintendo are NES, SNES and Gameboy (it's not a controller, but it has a great buttons mapping and I simply love it) only.

This one definitely looks like big-ass DS/3DS (I like them, but they're not very comfortable to me though), which is a disaster.
It's simply too big to me, that's all.

Nintendo has great exclusives, but their console designs are 50/50 actually, that's the main issue IMHO.

[Shauna]

The gamepad is surprisingly comfortable to hold. I thought it'd be terrible, but it ended up not too bad.

[Mirage]

It is terrible

I never use it unless the god damn console forces me to.

The WiiU pro controller, however, is probably one of the most comfortable controllers I have used. It's certainly better than the DS4 in terms of ergonomics.

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

Does anybody know how many Wii U games support that function where somebody could watch TV on the television set and the gamer could still play the game on the Wii U gamepad?

[Sephex]

The controller is comfortable and easy to use for me. I've played tons of games using the Wii U Pad and I have had zero problems. That being said the Pro controller does indeed rule.

[Mirage]

Does anybody know how many Wii U games support that function where somebody could watch TV on the television set and the gamer could still play the game on the Wii U gamepad?

Almost all WiiU games can be played on the gamepad alone. All virtual console ones too. It's really cumbersome with Wii games though.

[Colonel Angus]

I love using the gamepad. Sometimes, I prefer to just use that, whether I have something else on the tube or not.

[Mirage]

I mostly just use it when i video chat. Which is a pretty high quality video chat btw, and drawing on people's faces never gets old.

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

You know, I heard Batman: Arkham Origins is the least buggy on the Wii U, however Warner Bros. Games Montreal refused to release the Mr. Freeze DLC for Arkham Origins on the Wii U.

[Colonel Angus]

Most third party devs don't do dlc on the wii u. Even when there's dlc on other platforms, it's not offered on the wii u version.

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

I recently bought a hardcover for my Wii U gamepad, and I didn't know what to do with it at first but I made some calls and I found out that it's for display purposes only. It's to protect the front of the Wii U gamepad, when you're not using it and the extra styluses are just for show, as well.

[Pumpkin]

There's actually a lot of games I want on the WiiU but we have more important costs and we were thinking of a PS4 for Christmas. I have heard you can trade in your Wii for a WiiU and still play all of the games and get a small discount, so that should help. We got our Wii like a year ago for like $20-30 or something.

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

I wonder if anyone has ever thought about playing the Lego Batman Trilogy on the Wii U. Because the original Wii version of Lego Batman works on the Wii U console and there's Wii U versions of Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes and Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.