You can also call this "How i stopped hating Nintendo and got a Wii U"

So i finally decided that i wanted to pick up a Wii. Just a normal Wii. A friend of mine was selling hers and i decided to buy it for a nice price. Quiet a lot of games i wanted. Cool deal. The thing with it all is that il admit that i am something of a "generation gal" when it comes to Nintendo. How i love the early compared to the newer things they have done. I grew up with a Mega Drive and really don't feel the connection with Nintendo, they were my enemy and nemesis back in the day so its hard to find some games fun from a "This is my youth" stand point, but they are fun as heck. About when the DS came out, i started to feel very distant with them and the Wii was something i kept hearing nightmarish stories about how painful the controls were and such. I skipped it but i think time has passed enough that i can pick one up and get the good games. This kinda made me go back and replay games i loved. The Metroid Primes, Smash Brothers, Kirby's Air Ride. Games that i loved so very very much. Memories play such a massive deal with Nintendo that it makes me feel a bit mad at myself for being so easily swayed but it feels at least a little less "heartless" then how most games have been created this year.

So what does this have to do with the Wii U? *sighs* So after replaying this, playing some DS games and kinda remembering how Nintendo do things, i started to look at the Wii U with the view of "I have a PS3, maybe it would be nice to have just a little "stupid play" console. Something i can dive in, play 30 minutes without needing to get serious. Watch my Mii's run around, whatever. So i looked....and i planned...and i paid for...and im now sat waiting with child-like glee the idea of sitting down, playing the new Mario and Nintendo park and OH GOD WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME.

At E3 last year, i RANTED to my friends about "Why does Nintendo need a copy cat Myspace and twitter feed?" or "The console isn't going to be cheap. I bet the screen is only used for maps!". I hated every little thing about it. From the stupidly huge pad to the fact it was going to have poor battery life. Im not a stupid girl, i know a lot about gaming and i can see things kinda settle into place based on information. I just couldn't be more unhappy with it. Why did i just suddenly go from "angry" to "Il throw huge amounts of money at my memories, that Nintendo happen to own!". Urg. I feel like ive become such a tool of the simple power of nostalgia and how powerful it is. :( *Sighs* Does anyone else have this happen to them, where you just betray something you really feel strongly because of something like memories?