Pocket-Lint: Console launches don't happen very often. So when Nintendo announced the Wii U - its sixth generation gaming machine - back in 2011 it should have been cause for the usual ruckus of pant-wetting over-excitement.
Only in the lead up to launch the Wii U excitement-o-meter has ranged from anywhere between great to awful. By and large this is due to the GamePad - a giant, touchscreen-bearing controller that can facet a second near-virtual-reality style window onto the gaming world for some titles, or can be used instead of the TV to play games.
According to Eiji Aonuma, the game that was natively had a schedule for a 2022 launch has been postponed to spring 2023.
The metaverse continues to be a (warp) pipe dream.
In October 2020, federal authorities arrested Team Xecuter ring leaders Gary Bowser and Max Louarn on 11 felony counts of piracy.
