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The Weekend Hotness: Overscan on the Wii U sucks
Today was supposed to be a happy day. I was going to heap praises upon Jim Sterling for single-handedly providing all the Wii U review coverage this past week. I was going to talk about my thrilling Walmart adventure, where I purchased my shiny black console immediately after working my day job. I wanted to sing about the fun little features Nintendo included in the device. Instead, I'm going to talk about overscan. When I had to wait an hour to download a day one update that didn't even include all the features promised at launch, I didn't sweat too much. As long as Netflix is working, I'm set. When I noticed that apps took an excessive amount of time to load, I told myself that a future update would fix that. But when I noticed that a good portion of my screen was cropped at the edges... well, that was the last straw. Why is this a f*cking issue!? I know that my Samsung TV introduces overscan whenever a device is hooked up via HDMI, but I've always found some kind of workaround. With the Wii U, there are no options in the main menu to adjust screen size, which is ridiculous since screen adjustment is possible within individual apps like Miiverse and the web browser. Thus, I'm left to muck about my TV's settings, but since there is no "just scan" screen size option, I'll likely have to enter the service menu and risk bricking my television, all because Nintendo lacked some goddamn foresight. Nintendo, FIX THIS. Destructoid Originals: News: Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
11:59 PM on 06.19.2013 The Daily Hotness: Xbox One EightyObviously, the big news of the day is Microsoft backpedaling like a kid riding a bike downhill. Jim did an emergency Jimquisition on the event, but we also saw the return of Teenage Pokemon, Hamza's look at Hotline Miami 2, W...
11:59 PM on 06.18.2013 The Daily Hotness: Best Final Fantasy could go HDThe best news from today? Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD producer Yoshinoro Kitase noted that, should the HD remasters of X and X-2 prove successful, Final Fantasy XII is likely next in line for a remaster. Final Fantasy XII is a per...
11:59 PM on 06.17.2013 The Daily Hotness: Blanka is a trollWho ever thought Blanka was such a bane of society? I mean, he's always been a pain in the ass to fight against, but why does he have to go around punching innocent people off of logs? At any rate, it's at least hilarious. O...
11:59 PM on 06.16.2013 The Weekend Hotness: Cat derpThis cat can't wait for a cheeseburger. Well hello again old friends. What a week we had last week! E3 gave us all kinds of crazy news, and we still have more of it for you to look at! We're still talking about awesome game...
11:59 PM on 06.14.2013 The Daily Hotness: Witcher 3 is not ass, and other awardsNow that E3 2013 is completely in the books, it's that time when all the busy little bees of the internet decide what their favorite games of the show were. Respawn Entertainment's big coming out party, Titanfall, stole the ...
11:59 PM on 06.13.2013 The Daily Hotness: E3 2013, The Abridged VersionAs yet another E3 winds down, we take time to reflect on what was. Consoles were shown, prices were revealed, games were announced, and sooner than we know it a new generation will be upon us. It's a good couple of months be...
11:59 PM on 06.12.2013 The Daily Hotness: E3D3So, Day 3 of E3 2013 on Destructoid is all about the previews. TONS of previews. Tons of news too, and if it happened, it happened at E3. Or, you know, some place else...but you may not have heard about it. That's ok. It's al...
10:17 AM on 06.11.2013 Here's everything that happened at Nintendo's E3 DirectNintendo showed a ton of games today. In fact, all they practically showed is games outside of a brief Miiverse update. While I wasn't wowed by anything other than the amazing Mega Man Smash Bros. reveal and a Donkey Kong Cou...
11:59 PM on 06.10.2013 The Daily Hotness: Sony killed it editionMicrosoft really came out strong this morning in their press conference with no Kinect bullsh*t, and plenty of Xbox One exclusives that looked pretty freaking sweet. Then Sony's press conference happened, and, well, look what...
11:59 PM on 06.09.2013 The Weekend Hotness: Get ready for E3E3 is this week, and the news is a little slow since everyone is waiting to puke it all out on us at once. There are some leaked screenshots and videos for you to enjoy though. News being slow doesn't stop us from having al...
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