Weird angry responses to Wii U exclusives

With the Wii U announcing the exclusives it will have, there are a fair amount of angry people on the internet.

On the surface it looks like whining idiots who are whining about not getting their games. Here's my other take on it.

I am sure like quite a number of people playing games like myself bought a Wii at some point. (Hell I even have 2. 1 Jp and one for US games. Hate region locking) The thing is with the rest of the Wii owners, there isn't much in the way of games we look forward to on the consoles. Most stuff we play are from Nintendo themselves. Getting good games from Nintendo itself is definitely good.

The thing is that we look forward to more stuff from other developers than Nintendo of course. We would want to use our consoles more than just play Nintendo games. Sadly we don't get much outside of Nintendo games. In fact I have left my Wii alone for a long time.

Like only recently did we get Xenoblade, The Last Story and hopefully Pandora's Tower. Like why? Why did we only get those games only recently and only after much effort by a group of fans putting out that people are willing to buy games those games if they are translated.

For me I feel I am side lined by Nintendo. To put it bluntly I feel burnt by my Wii purchase. I am not stating I don't enjoy the Nintendo games but this few new Mario games outside of Galaxy feels like a recycled experience?

I have to admit I am totally in love with the Metroidvana games for the portables which I truely hope they will continue but have likely not any longer. Those games recycle their assets a lot but I still love them. Strangely I couldn't feel the same for the new Mario games and I feel the experience feels recycled for some reason.

With that burnt feeling, a lot of us are wary of purchasing a Wii U despite being promised there will be a lot of 3rd party support. I believe it when it happens is what a lot of folks like me are doing.

With Bayonetta 2 being a Wii exclusive because Nintendo has helped financed the game is fine by most standards. What I see is a multi console title becoming exclusive to a console which most of us are not even sure we would want to purchase given the history we had with Wii U.

The price of a console is significant enough to warrant thinking about buying it. Hence I believe folks would want Bayonetta 2 would be on PS3 or Xbox 360. The exclusive announcement really made it a downer for most people which don't have a Wii U purchase on their radar anytime soon.

To put it simply, people are not ready to commit to a Wii U purchase and would love the game to be multi console. Looks like it isn't happening and the internet with the usual response of raging and death threats to anyone related to it.

I can't say I don't agree with being angry and somewhat disappointed at the same time. Death threats seemed a bit extreme. Regardless I am having a wait and see view of the Wii U though I do expect that if I wait long enough either the price will drop or Wii U will cease to be relevant at that point.

Its been a while. A long while

As I am writing this I am actually in Japan crashing at one of my friend's place.

So what happened this year? Well mostly the same I can say, but it isn't really a good year to start with I can say.

First, one of my cousins passed away. It was pretty bad. The exact reasons I won't disclose but it is one of those things that you can see it tearing into that family.

Then work is well, work. Like the last post I did. I was generally pretty angry. What I can say is I couldn't agree with the direction of what is being done and things generally got worse. I wonder if I should say which I guess probably not. 

You know I realize there is a lot of things I couldn't say. So let me say something I can.

First I am moving to a new job starting Sept 24. Civil service. My short term plan is at least get familiar with the role then look for a place to study and get my college degree before I think of something else.

Currently I am in Japan, took no pay leave as I wanted to have that break before I start my new job. Besides it is not like my work is appreciated when I am there anyways.

For me it was weird like when I was at the airport, "maybe going over isn't that a great idea. I should like save the money for something else." I was literally guilt tripping myself. Once I got on the plane, that thought just vanished. I generally don't enjoy plane rides. It is hard to sleep and there's nothing to do.

While being bere, I am setting up some stream equipment which used to be my portable streaming setup. I have been thinking of really reducing time playing fighting games. Even with my new job I thought I want to like do something else. Also I really suck at fighting games and I seem to be reaching a place I can no longer get better. I do believe though putting more time and slowly learning I will get over that. It is just I want to spend time on other things. 

I thought I want to say something positive, I feel good now that I don't have to worry about carrying a phone with me or the servers exploding (something like that). The feeling you are like freed from a very heavy burden no one wants to take up.

I remember I had more I wanted to say when I was on the plane, it seems I have forgotten about them. I will note them down when I remember it.

That's it for now.