I was invited to the Nintendo Experience for hands on game play to the successor of the Nintendo Wii. I brought my 10 year old cousin as a guest because he will have a great what did you do over the summer story to tell.
I was pretty impressed by the playback and in improved control. Games are finally in HD.
I played New Super Mario Bros U, Luigi's Mansion, Rayman Legends and Just Dance 4.
I smoked a family of 3 playing Just Dance 4 dancing to Rock Lobster. With the Wii Motion plus controller tracking your hands and body's position and movement in space and in relation to 3 other players is a modern programming miracle. Ubisoft has a hit on their hand. Its no Xbox Kinect but has
There was a little bit of stutter in New Super Mario Bros U with 4 players connected. I'm hoping this was just a bug in the demo unit. Hopefully Nintendo can work out the I/O or processing hiccup. Overall I'm really excited because up until now I thought the Wii U would be underwhelming after I saw the E3 Keynote. I sent Nintendo a social message blast to go back to the drawing board.
Nintendo if you're listening, please include the following for a hit:
Ethernet! Cmon
DLNA playback
Bluray Support
Skype and/or Google Talk chat with the GamePad or release a Bluetooth or USB HD Webcam
Use USB 3.0 for future proofing
