The Wii U hardware is great, the OS not so much.
Posted by TeleportPass Oct 04 2014 11:55 GMT in TeleportPass
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It's been 5 months just about since I got my Wii U. I like the console and the collection of games is growing steadily. My brother bought us Nintendo Land last night, and I like it for the most part. During the week, my console installed the latest system update which rearranged the home menu and made folders possible. However, there are still quite a few things that could change.

1. The TV remote needs more buttons. It would be nice if it had a mute button.

2. The Internet Browser needs work. Remember how the Internet Channel on the Wii had like Flash Lite 3? It grew outdated for the most part, but the Wii U browser has no flash player. That doesn't come as a shock to owners, but it annoys me how I can't watch video on sites like Dailymotion and Filehoot. The least Nintendo can do is make appropriate plugins like flash downloadable. It would be great if third-party developers came up with a browser for the Wii U that would have all that. It would run as an app, of course (probably spawning a Miiverse community to go along with it), but it would be a treat.

3. I checked out MK8 from the library once. My Wii U installed some update, and ever since then, it notifies me every time I open the home menu. Nintendo needs to make a way for this to be turned off.

4. Custom wallpapers/themes for the Wii U menu

5. Miiverse's drawing space needs to be bigger.

6. BRING BACK THE PHOTO CHANNEL!


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I think the update notifications go away if you launch the game in question.
Reply by Gold Prognosticus Oct 04 2014 15:16 GMT
The browser is actually pretty good and supports most HTML5 features. Flash sucks.
Reply by Francis Oct 04 2014 15:48 GMT
The web browser knocks out the other consoles, faster load times be damned. It has the highest support for web pages and their subsequent in browser applications thanks to its constantly updated HTML5 compatibility. Nintendo made a very smart move allowing opera to have free game with the browser. It would be nice if you could add in flash or god willing an ad-blocker but these things cant always be guaranteed to work on the Wii U. Custom wallpapers are probably coming in an update after the "New 3DS" launch, which has custom backgrounds and PLEASE NO DO NOT INCREASE MIIVERSE DRAWING SIZE. That would literally be the worst thing ever.
Reply by Super-Claus Oct 04 2014 16:53 GMT
True, the Wii U has the best console web browser, but it is, again, a game console, and it isn't as powerful as PC/Mac browsers. It needs more features, or, if a 3rd party browser came out, I would enjoy that.
Reply by TeleportPass Oct 05 2014 14:17 GMT
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