Wii U

Wii U and Study

A couple of 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 (although the image quality is slightly worse, but many of the Wii’s physical games don’t pursue high image quality).

2. The Wii U’s large pad can be used as a screen, so when playing against each other, you no longer need to split the TV screen in half. When I played PS3 before, the most frustrating thing was that there were not many games that could be played by two people on a single machine (except for ball games and fighting games), and the few that did exist mostly required split-screen play, which was not very enjoyable.

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

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 Wii U.

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 is very busy, I’ve chosen a lot of core courses from the computer science department, and various projects and assignments are piling up, making it hard to breathe. Especially one course, 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 growing 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…