Your thoughts on the Wii U

The Wii U is basically around the corner now, and is already getting pre-ordered like mad, but is this new Nintendo HD console as awesome as it sounds?

There is the standard 8GB that just comes with the console, game controller, and the accessories at a reasonable price of 300 bucks. The other is a 32GB deluxe set that comes with a bit more, including a copy of Nintendo land, this one costs 350 bucks (p.s. all the pre-orders for the deluxe is sold out at many online retailers, so finding one for sale will be hard until its release). But do we really want to jump in now and buy low Gigabyte console when they'll probably release a 60, 250, or a 320GB console on a later date? Of course that's assuming they do release higher gig consoles.

Many launch game titles are coming out too, from the many obvious ones (like New Super Mario Bros. U) to the shocking and very surprising titles (like Zombi U or even Assassin's Creed III). It is pretty great to know that the games are going to have much much more variety this time around, along with our favorite classics like Mario or Zelda, but one thing is something to keep in mind, the price. The games will cost 60 bucks like the games for PS3 and 360, that really brings on the pain to our wallets. And they have also confirmed that the HD will not be as powerful as the other HD consoles, so would that weaken the look of most of the game graphics for titles like Aliens: Colonial Marines and Mass Effect 3? (NOTE: we here don't believe that graphics make the game so this isn't an issue with us, however this may be an issue for others).

Plus it's a launch console with launch titles, who's to say that the launch games will not fully use everything that the game pads can do? Geoff admits that it's actually a really fun thing to use, and it could be useful for many game ideas, and he will more than likely talk about it in episode 12 along with Shrew.

So what do you guys say? Is the Wii U going to be awesome or will it suffer when having to compete with the other consoles? Please answer in the poll! (yes there will be a poll this time, sorry for the last one :-/)

EDIT: forget the Poll, Blogger is kind of being weird right now...