An ode to Miiverse and WiiU's dying breath

[theRepublic]

I'm going to miss Miiverse. I jumped into the Wii U late, so I am pretty behind on the games I am playing. Even then, you could find at least a few people playing even fairly obscure games in each game's little community page. That is going to be impossible to replicate. This forum isn't big enough. Even at a site like GameFAQs, most individual game message boards are dead. It just wasn't designed to really work that way. And there is no way Twitter or Facebook will work either. It was a purpose built community, and it worked perfectly for what it was.

As for the Wii U itself, man am I loving that controller. All the buttons you could want plus the touch screen. I played Wind Waker on the Wii U for the first time. I couldn't imaging the sailing without being able to see the map at the same time. I would have been pausing every 15 seconds to look at the map if I played it on the GameCube.