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WELL!
make sure you have a good relationship with your second hand video
games store.
the disk that i was sold for my Wii U, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, does
not work.
apparently it is a very common issue. the only other disk that i have
to check is Super Mario 3D World, and that works fine.
i was able to get through the entire installation process with the
disk, only to be told seconds into the opening credits of the game
that the Zelda disk could not be read.
i have no means to investigate the issue further, other than hot and
cold power cycling the console, and reinstalling, which did not fix
the issue.
luckily i have micro fibre cloths, and i duly and vigorously cleaned
the disk i purchased, but it did not work. the console told me the
disk could not be read.
so i turned to downloading the game from the eShop. sounds simple,
right? wrong.
i had to create a SECOND account with nintendo in addition to my
NintendoID account, in order to âmergeâ the funds i already had in my
eShop account, so i could add any funds at all, so i could purchase
the game AGAIN, except this time digitally.
i was not presented with a dialogue box asking me how much money i
wished to add to my account, in dollars and cents, i was only
presented with a âfunny moneyâ interface. i could only add money in
the increments that nintendo specified.
so for a game that was AUD$89.95 online, i had to surrender AUD$100 in
order to make up the funds, because there was no other combination of
money amounts that could help me make up, roughly, AUD$90.
so i now have a weird amount of $10.05 in my account, languishing,
presumably unusable without adding MORE money.
then, i was treated to their rewards program, because, i foolishly,
wanted to investigate more about whatever personal data i had
surrendered to this Multinational Corporation.
i was informed with great pomp that i had âearnedâ 450 âgold coinsâ,
and 220 âplatinum coinsâ. these âcoinsâ are not redeemable for hard
cash, they only allow one to get âdiscountsâ for online purchasesâand
the only platform i was allowed to get discounts for was my 3DS. there
did not need to be any software i could access through this âReWaRdSâ
program for my Wii U, which is all i am interested in.
in order to keep my âplatinumâ coins, i had to SPEND some of them to
buy a âcoin jarâ in order to âholdâ them (????)
i knew my suspicion apprehension about the following that nintendo has
on the fedi was well-founded.
i was fairly dismayed to see how popular the nintendo game animal
crossing was here, and my experience with attempting to get this game
working was far too difficult.
given i had purchased nintendo hardware, the process i should have
gone through should have been one of âit just worksâ.
but it was no so. in addition to having to be out of pocket 10% of the
money i surrendered to nintendo, when i went to download the Zelda
game i wanted, i was duly informed that there was a phantom 4GiB of
data taking up space on my external storage, preventing me from
installing the game.
when i interrogated exactly what was taking up this space, i was told
that the external storage was holding âNo Dataâ.
FURTHER: every model of the Wii U was woefully under-resourced in
terms of data storage capacity. purchasing external data storage
hardware is a necessity when it comes to being able to play more than
one game late in the consoleâs release cycle.
there may also be a nasty surprise for some when they come to use this
console these days: only certain types of external hard drives and USB
thumb drives work with the consoleâand the list of devices on the
official nintendo website is very, very short, and has not been
updated recently.
so good luck sinking more money into that.