Wii U

Wii U and Study

A few days ago, I went to Walmart and bought a Wii U. The new Super Mario U with multiplayer cooperation is really fun, and the Wii U console is indeed suitable for all ages.

I think the Wii U has the following advantages:

1. The console is backward compatible with the Wii, so all the classic games on the Wii can be played (the graphics are slightly worse, but many of the Wii’s physical games don’t pursue high-quality graphics either).

2. The Wii U’s large pad can be used as a screen, so when playing against each other, there’s no need to split the TV screen in half anymore. When I played PS3 before, the most frustrating thing was that there weren’t many games that could be played solo with two players (except for ball games and fighting games), and the few that did exist mostly required split-screen play, which was a bit annoying.

3. The graphics quality that the Wii U console can achieve has already reached the mainstream game console standard, so game manufacturers have the opportunity to port their games to the Wii U. I personally think that once the graphics quality reaches a certain level, it’s enough, and continuing to pursue higher graphics quality will only greatly increase development costs. Game manufacturers should focus on improving gameplay (FF13 is an example, and as a game console, graphics will never be able to surpass PCs).

4. The background music of the Wii U’s main menu is very nice…

5. There are various classic Nintendo games and party games available on the console.

Overall, the Wii U is a qualified game console, a console for playing games, and a console suitable for family entertainment.

Talking about study: this semester has been very busy, I’ve taken a bunch of core computer science courses, and the various projects and assignments have been overwhelming. Especially one course on computational complexity theory, which is all about “hard” CS knowledge, is very headache-inducing. I hope I can get good grades in the final exams and assignments, and I hope my final grades will be satisfactory. This semester, I’ve put all the projects I’ve done on Github, and I’ll slowly release them after the semester ends. Seeing my code quantity grow bit by bit, and the computer knowledge I’ve learned increasing, I’m still very happy - of course, if my scores could be higher, that would be even better…