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The Wii U would have made a lot more sense if it had been released one or two years earlier. That would have let developers get up to speed on the new hardware and get in on the last wave of big multiplatform releases which would have helped grow the user base and thus ensure future developer support.

For a developer to put serious effort into the Wii U now basically means skipping the PS4/Nextbox, or at least having to play some serious technological catch-up once they do switch, and I don't see any big developer willingly putting themselves into that situation. So the end result is the usual Nintendo third-pary support: third-string developers and shovelware.

One strange thing that seems to happen frequently when I'm streaming longer videos is that the "pause" and "play" state seems to flip on its own. When I start playing the video, the video is loading at full speed, saturating my connection, but sooner or later it just stops loading. Looking at OS X's Activity Monitor, the network bandwidth usage drops to zero. However, if I now pause the video, it starts loading again at full speed, and continues loading until I press play, at which point the bandwidth graph drops to zero again.

This only seems to happen after maybe 10-20 minutes, but seems more likely to happen the longer the video is.

I have a pair of Turtle Beach PX21 wired and X31 wireless phones. The sound quality in both is pretty terrible and I'd never listen to music with either set, and the wired set has serious ground loop problems when connected to a wired Xbox 360 controller. Maybe the newer models are better, but most "gamer" products are overpriced crap.

I had to log in to the site again today, and shortly after that I got a "Confirm your Giant Bomb registration" email as if I had just registered a new account. Haven't dared click on the activation link yet.

When first joining the chat, it usually works OK, but after it's been running for a while (10-20 minutes) I can't send messages anymore. I can enter a message in the text entry field, but pressing enter just advances the cursor to the next line instead of sending the message. This has been happening as long as the new chat has been up.

Chrome on OS X

In case it's needed, here's one way to trigger it (Chrome on OS X):

1. Pop out the chat

2. Middle click a link in the pop-out chat window

3. You're already dead

Tom Chick's review said many of the things other reviews have also said were disappointing about the game. The difference is that in his opinion it makes for a bad game, while everyone else followed up with "but it's still a good game".

Denis Dyack should set up a new studio together with Brendan McNamara. They'd probably get on well.

@GunslingerPanda said:

So EU users are safe? Cool.

Supposedly. But then I remembered I participated in the Diablo 3 open beta weekend, and that was using an American server, and that when I originally installed I downloaded a binary that somehow was for America only, so who knows where my login info is stored?

In one of Nintendo's presentations they hinted that the curse of downloadable game patches will be coming to the Wii U.