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Game Diary - December 2, 2008: How Not To Design Firmware
multiplayerblog.mtv.com - 12/2/2008
Game Diary - December 2, 2008: How Not To Design Firmware
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Did I promise I'd share my thoughts on "Tomb Raider: Underworld" in today's diary? I did. Sorry. I'll get to that in a post later today. This morning, I need to vent about a minor aggravation. Why can't Nintendo and Sony learn from Microsoft? Why can't their firmware and channels and dashboard ...

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The Wiifrigerator shuffle
GoNintendo — ... the Wii’s lack of a hard drive for months now. It never gets any easier…just more frustrating. Nintendo hasn’t really given us the solution that we want, and it doesn’t look like they are going to. They just keep passing on SD card solutions that I don’t consider a solution at all. Our friend Stephen Totilo was suffering through the block shuffle last night, and it has made him long for a Wii firmware/system that is closer to what Microsoft offers. In that respect, I can’t blame him. Article here This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pm and is ...

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