Mario Kart 8 is intolerable on a Wiimote.

It's fine on a Wiimote plus Nunchuck: stick to steer/glide, Nunchuck buttons for item/horn and rear view, Wiimote buttons for accelerate/brake/drift. The only thing you lose over a pro controller is analog accelerate/brake with the second analog stick, but who bothers with that anyway?

Nintendo went from always being stronger than the competitor's hardware (SNES was stronger than the Genesis, N64 was technically stronger than the PSX) to being the weakest on the market.

That isn't really true. The SNES had a weaker CPU than the MegaDrive, but stronger graphics hardware to compensate. The N64 had strong CPU performance, but poor memory latency, very limited texture memory, and limited storage. The consoles back then had very different trade-offs.

The gap between the Wii and the PS3/360 was big, and the gap between the Wii U and Xbone/PS4 is bigger.

Yeah, but it's got to the point where consoles are powerful enough for most people. From the distance I sit from the display, I really don't care that Wii U games are often 720p upscaled, and there are enough polygons to get the job done. This wasn't the case in the GC/PS2/Xbox days.

I dunno. The gamepad makes a some things far easier. The remake of Zelda: Wind Waker makes very good use of it for the maps. Sailing is so much easier when you can look down at the map and up at the view (kind of like sailing a real boat). Team management mode in FIFA13 is far easier to work on a touchscreen than with a controller. It's also very, very good for navigating menus, text input and all that stuff that's normally painful with a controller.

A lot of the games are moving to more traditional control schemes than they had on the Wii. The touchscreen isn't really used for much in Mario Kart 8, and the Mario platformer plays far better on a traditional controller than with motion controls. At the same time there are still games that depend on Wiimote control, like Wii Party U. Perhaps it's all just a scam to sell more controllers - I'm up to two pro controllers, two Wiimotes and the touchscreen. Yes, I can now host a 5-player game of FIFA 13, but it's expensive buying all that crap.

I've got a Wii U, and one of the most fun games for playing in a group is an EA title: FIFA 13. Up to five players, cooperative or competitive, all the leagues and players, recognisable faces. What's not to like? Seriously it's great, and the retailer threw it in as a freebie with the console, along with the pack-in Mario/Luigi platformers.

I've got Mario Kart 8 already. It's a lot simpler and more approachable than some of the previous titles (e.g. Mario Kart DS had a far steeper learning curve) - it feels more like the arcade Mario Kart games than previous console titles. It also defaults to more traditional controls than the Wii incarnation. It's very approachable for casual gamers. My wife and my mum absolutely love it.

Will it be enough to sell consoles? It'll probably sell a few, but on its own it won't make or break the platform - Nintendo needs to follow it up. They need a great Super Smash Bros, a Metroid, a Zelda, and maybe an F-Zero or Star Fox. It's either going to be a great time to have a Wii U as the hit parade arrives, or a disappointing time as ti fails to materialise.

Yeah, well I used a Wii U console and then I got laid; my dick definitely didn't fall off. I guess that means the Wii U solves the major issue you encountered with the Wii. Did you manage to get your dick reattached? If you did, I can assure you the Wii U is safe to use. And if you didn't, then I guess it really doesn't matter which console you use.

It isn't even surprising that the Wii U isn't selling as well as the Wii did. They sold a lot of Wiis to people who don't buy games consoles. Those people will have gotten over the fad and won't be buying another games console. It's not that they're defecting to Sony or MS, they're just going back to their non-gaming ways.

Wut? RadLab was about microwave radiation, for shortwave radar. They didn't do nuclear physics.

Regular doors don't do that because they open outwards away from the car's interior, and none of the roof moves away. It could definitely happen on the Toyota Sera.

The engineers said that I should have put gasoline in it because it was electric and refused to return my money.

And here's the giveaway...

Fuck you. Plenty of people spent that time stockpiling guns that were made illegal. Homicide in Victoria jumped because the fucking mafia decided it was a good time to kill each others' kids, and it dropped off again once they'd all killed each other. Sexual assault and rape are up due to broadened legal definitions and better reporting. NSW still grants you the right to fire on an assailant if you believe they're endangering your life, family or well-being; Victoria doesn't, but they never did; fucked if I know the law in other states, never lived in any of them.

The funny thing is, Jesus was a bit of a socialist and supported paying taxes, and a lot of the Old Testament is more than a little socialist. Conservopedia people would need to rewrite all that out of the Bible if they wanted a book they could truly believe in. TBH I think more of them have probably read Ayn Rand that have read the Bible.

It's taken from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The Conservopedia people worship this book.

I got a second-hand Mac Plus when I was that age, and I'd already tried to learn BASIC on a friend's Apple II.

Well I'm really glad I actually get paid to produce stuff, and don't have to rely on advertising revenue.

Sorry to have to break this to you, but you're a total sell-out. You'd rather remove serious content and treat a topic as taboo than lose your Google ads? Shame on you!