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sethnintendo on 12 September 2013
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Soundwave said:
zippy said:
Soundwave said:

Nintendo fans deserve the most love I think because I think they put up with the most garbage. If Sony or MS tried to do some of the same things Nintendo does (slowwwwwww OS, no account system, no third party support, outdated hardware, console droughts galore, reusing art assets in their biggest franchise) they'd be abandoned in a heart beat by their "fans".

As much flak as MS took for example with the XBox 1, they very quickly changed a lot of their policies after listening to their fans ... lol, Nintendo just does whatever they feel like. For years we had to put up with 512MB of storage on the Wii and the "fridge system" of deleting/redownloading Wiiware/VC content, lol, because Nintendo didn't feel it was prudent to open up SD Card support.

It was only after years of complaints that they allowed for some actual SD Card support. Stuff like that is just one example.



Red ring of death and Playstation network hack says hi. I mean they were pretty garbage also.

Sony/MS certainly have their hiccups, but by and large in 12 years in the business the RROD has been MS' big issue and Sony's network hack that one time and the $600 PS3 were the knocks on Sony, but to be honest that's bad considering how long they've been in the business.

Launch PS1 were plagued with overheating/freezing issues (I had to send mine back when it started messing up a few months after the 6 (or 12 I forget what they had) month warranty ran out and they sent me a newer model after I paid $75).  One temp fix was to flip the PS1 upside down but after awhile that didn't even work.  PS2 disc drives and lens broke all the time (seen countless people state this).  Sony hardware has gotten better but the PS3 had some YLOD. 

Also, it was about 2 years when they added the SD card channel.  Sure that is a little too long but you make it sound like forever.  I remember that I stopped buying games once I hit the limit because I didn't feel like deleting and redownloading.  Hey, at least they didn't make you buy an overpriced hard drive like Microsoft for the 360...

http://kotaku.com/5183763/wii-system-update-adds-play-from-sd-card-support

Also, the Wii U OS isn't slow anymore.  Did you forget to update your Wii U?  Also, another update will come later this year that improves the speed even more.  You seriously can't bitch about the Wii U OS being slow anymore.  Since the OS speed update everything loads just fine (except the occasional freeze/ hang up while loading Netflix or whatever).  You can now turn off the system through the power button instead of having to pull the cord/power.  I can go through numerous of your points and it seems like you like to complain more than what the actual issue is.  Software droughts and 3rd party (mainly western 3rd party support) is about the only valid complaint that I see.