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The Wii U celebrates its 1st Birthday!

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That sure went fast, huh? Today, the Nintendo Wii U launched in North America exactly one year ago. In those 365 days, we’ve seen the fantastic remake The Wind Waker HD rekindle happy memories for many existing fans, as well as reach out to a whole new audience. We saw Link involved in the introduction of the latest home console in launch title Nintendo Land, with the highly addictive mini-game “Battle Quest”. The system is also home to Virtual Console editions of the original NES games (both of which are on sale right now), and Link will eventually make more triumphant HD appearances in new iterations of Zelda and Super Smash Bros.. Coincidentally, it was also Nintendo director Shigeru Miyamoto’s birthday just a couple of days ago.

While the console still isn’t performing very well financially, I see a very bright future for the Wii U with its upcoming line-up of games and hopefully the price cuts and new bundles will now entice more customers. Perhaps some of you are hoping to get one this Christmas! As for you happy Wii U owners, let us know your favourite memories with the system so far.

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Reece Heather
Reece is the former leading news editor and columns editor at Zelda Universe, and is the greatest video game journalist in the history of video game journalism. He recently won an award for "World's Most Influential Video Game Critic," but had to decline his certificate as his ego is now too big for him to leave his front door.

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