<p>Hosts: <a href="http://digitalmumbles.com/">Mumbles</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_bean">Josh</a>, <a href="http://www.errantsignal.com/blog/">Chris</a>, and <a href="http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale">Shamus</a>.</p>
<p>Show Notes:</p>
<p><span id="more-22140"></span><strong>First three minutes of the show: Mumbles is established as the Podcast Queen.</strong></p>
<p><strong>3:00 Shamus is playing SPACE GAMES and Broken Age.</strong></p>
<p>Also Shamus gives “marriage advice” on the occasion of his 17<sup>th</sup> wedding anniversary.</p>
<p><strong>11:00 Josh is playing the game Adobe Premiere Doesn’t Friggin’ Work Dammit Hell Shit.</strong></p>
<p>Josh also talks about a Crusader Kings II succession game he’s talking part in. For the uninitiated, CKII is a strategy game where you guide a particular dynasty through the ages. A succession game is where one player runs a generation, and when power passes on in the game, the save file is given to another player and they take over.</p>
<p>Also we talk about the weather for like ten minutes. Sorry.</p>
<p><strong>22:30 Chris kicks off a discussion about Nintendo, the Wii U and their troubled sales.</strong></p>
<p>Nintendo projected 9 million Wii U’s sold, but when the numbers came in it was more like 2.5 million. Now they’re in a tough spot.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-secret-developers-wii-u-the-inside-story">Here is the article I mentioned</a>. In the article we learn:</p>
<ul><li>Wii hardware wasn’t finalized until very late in development, and without a lot of communication with developers.<p></p></li><li>The hardware is incredibly weak, bordering on Xbox 360 level of power.</li><li>The people at Nintendo that designed the Wii U do not use or have any understanding of the other consoles.</li><li>The Wii U development tools are horrible, bordering on the barbaric.</li><li>Nintendo has shameful support for third parties, to the point that their few third-party devs have trouble getting coherent answers to basic technology questions.</li></ul>
