>This marks the first time a brand new Wii U console has been sold since May 2022. It remains unclear which retailer sold the Wii U, given that the console was discontinued a few years ago. It is possible that it was a misplaced unit that was rediscovered by the retailer.
oh man it was such a beautiful place! bought so many fun things there back in high school (including tons of weird caffeine products like caffeinated soap). made me really sad when they began centering things around cosplay/fan gear and merch. RIP
It's true that it wasn't meaningful, but that doesn't make it untrue. Usefully distinctive is orthogonal to true.
When I replaced my damaged car with an exact copy, it was not meaningful yet yet still true, and so a perfectly valid statement, when I said I 'doubled the size of my fleet of yellow Skys'
Would be great if I could do this. Got a load of Wii and Wii U games, and an old console, but the game pad has issues and can't find any replacements local to me, or for a reasonable price.
There's a project floating around that reverse engineers the game pad protocol to allow building a custom replacement with a Linux machine and an Android tablet, but it's a bit involved. The way the WiiU tablet works requires hacking up the Linux wireless stack, IIRC.
Cemu and Dolphin are great, if you feel like homebrewing the console and dumping all your games to play on PC.
I mention it as I just watched a television show where a ~40 year old man fiddles with a Switch and calls it a Wii. Hence "older" not "elderly," I think anyone not paying attention to video games over the age of like
25 could make that mistake.
I've got a decade on you: One day you'll hopefully find that the more important parts of your life have expanded in scope to where you just don't have the capacity to care what the kids are memeing about.
I hear there's a brief resurgence when it's your kids doing the memeing, but by then you're too far out of date.
I too thought this when I was 26, I'm 36 now. The world won't stop you, but you may also find you just don't care enough to - you have to be spending a lot of time interactively engaging in a culture to be native to the memes, and that takes a lot of time that you might want to spend learning about / doing other things.
Also starting to realise that my "they can't stop me gaming when I'm 80!" attitude will be self-limited by joint pain at some point... probably in exactly the same way as previous generations, just s/gaming/popular activity of the era/
Yeah, I'm 37 and Simpsons 'I use to be with it' quote hits a bit harder with every passing year.
The good news is I think the fact that more focus is being put into accessibility options in games means there is a chance they will not be able to stop us from gaming when we're 80.
Any chance this is a clerical error? We see this sometimes in police crime statistics, where an obscure crime is recorded that seems rather unlikely to have actually happened, like detonating an atomic bomb.
I think there's a good chance this was a conscious choice by the buyer. There are quite a few people interested in "vintage" gaming nowadays. I personally would love the chance to play some Wii Sports Resort right now :)
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 99.1 ms ] threadThis does remind me of when thinkgeek started selling brand new in box dreamcasts. Years after that got discontinued.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZVriTVxxsU
It's true that it wasn't meaningful, but that doesn't make it untrue. Usefully distinctive is orthogonal to true.
When I replaced my damaged car with an exact copy, it was not meaningful yet yet still true, and so a perfectly valid statement, when I said I 'doubled the size of my fleet of yellow Skys'
Cemu and Dolphin are great, if you feel like homebrewing the console and dumping all your games to play on PC.
But then I remembered that this is Nintendo and that they would sadly still ask full price for both the console and whatever games would be available.
Kinda want to see an interview with this mystery person to find out!
People get enough of the message when you say that johnny is in the backroom playing wii.
I hear there's a brief resurgence when it's your kids doing the memeing, but by then you're too far out of date.
Also starting to realise that my "they can't stop me gaming when I'm 80!" attitude will be self-limited by joint pain at some point... probably in exactly the same way as previous generations, just s/gaming/popular activity of the era/
The good news is I think the fact that more focus is being put into accessibility options in games means there is a chance they will not be able to stop us from gaming when we're 80.
A shame the homebrew scene is only now getting into major swing with newer more convenient hacks.
Mom and pop shop grocery store near me had one new in box in the back of the store and I nabbed it because my wife and I love the Wii U