{"id":22140,"date":"2014-01-30T11:48:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T16:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22140"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:22:19","slug":"diecast-43-broken-age-wii-u-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22140","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #43:  Broken Age, Wii U, Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/embed\/zlJUUQiR#9O0IKqOJPls_Olwl37xyyI8kfVuOEpeu4O7WZFopa1w!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/zlJUUQiR#9O0IKqOJPls_Olwl37xyyI8kfVuOEpeu4O7WZFopa1w\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/q0wn1R4L#p9JNgoG2nivYhF1qEqDG5zI87cCJid2hcuoCAAxuUew\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<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>\n<p>Show Notes:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>First three minutes of the show: Mumbles is established as the Podcast Queen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3:00 Shamus is playing SPACE GAMES and Broken Age.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also Shamus gives &#8220;marriage advice&#8221; on the occasion of his 17<sup>th<\/sup> wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00 Josh is playing the game Adobe Premiere Doesn&#8217;t Friggin&#8217; Work Dammit Hell Shit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Josh also talks about a Crusader Kings II succession game he&#8217;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>\n<p>Also we talk about the weather for like ten minutes. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22:30 Chris kicks off a discussion about Nintendo, the Wii U and their troubled sales.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo projected 9 million Wii U&#8217;s sold, but when the numbers came in it was more like 2.5 million. Now they&#8217;re in a tough spot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2014-secret-developers-wii-u-the-inside-story\">Here is the article I mentioned<\/a>. 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