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This could be enough to push me over the edge and buy a Wii U. It is very cool that Nintendo have embraced user made content, after being so against it for what seems like forever.

edit: a couple of replies made me realize that I was off the mark slightly with my comment. I should have focused on how their attempts to support user made content have seemed to run into their legal department's over the top desire to "defend" their character IP.

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I'm not disagreeing that they are against user made content per se, but there are plenty of examples where they've embraced user content, ever since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Paint

and even to the more recent Wario-Ware games where you can make your own mini-games.

Excitebike for NES also had a level editor built in.

even looking at the screnshots, they seem to have borrowed heavily from the Mario Paint interface, stream of icons on the top.

No idea why they used a dog icon in the corner. IIRC that was the undo button in Mario Paint. http://e3.nintendo.com/_ui/images/games/wiiu/mario-maker/scr... Maybe it's a pun in Japanese?

And the fly swatting and clapping hands that are also directly ripped out of Mario Paint.

I'm a bit disappointed that they apparently didn't put in the music editor.

> No idea why they used a dog icon in the corner.

Perhaps him sneezing is related somehow? "Blowing away changes"…

Edit: Or the similarity between Inu (Dog) and Undo?

perhaps the dog from duck hunt?

Are the Mii's not considered user made content? In the upcoming Super Smash Bros', you can customize your own Mii to be a fighter and it looks like there's a whole community of Mii customizers [1] who make celebrities and the like.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=mii+celebrities&tbm=isch

Miis on their own are a bit weak because they're just a little display object. Their little social network Miiverse holds a fair amount of content though.

Also, Nintendo has said that they won't be allowing you to see customized Miis when fighting other people online in SSB unless they're a friend of yours, probably to prevent copyright (and objectionable content) issues.

There was a free channel/game thing on the Wii where they'd give you a theme ("Pilgrim", "Mean boss", etc) and you submitted a Mii that fit that theme. It was pretty neat to see what people came up with.

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