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Frank Cifaldi for Gamasutra:

We’re told by someone with access to the NPD’s data that sales for January were “well under” 100,000 units. By our estimates, sales were somewhere between 45,000 and 59,000 units for the month, which is lower than any of the three previous-generation home consoles sold in their worst months, with the possible exception of a recent performance by the original Wii.

Ouch. And that’s with an extra “leap” week in January to bolster sales. This is continuing to look like a total disaster for Nintendo.

And it just feels like Nintendo are the only ones not surprised by this. Such a sad story. The Wii U always just felt so gimmicky in my eyes. I’ve never tried one, but I don’t really care to either. Could just be that I don’t play games anymore.

I just hope Nintendo isn’t killed by this. I think they’d be smart to cut back and focus on software. Zelda and Mario and Donkey Kong need to live on. iOS seems like a great place for that. I think they could demand premium prices like most game shops can’t.

Problems are meant to be explored. When it comes to work and relationships they’re also meant to be explored together. An answer isn’t always a solution.

This is something I struggle with at times. This is something I really need to remember.

Don’t look for the “answer”. Dig into the problem.

Really cool. As you move away from or towards the screen the text gets larger or small, respectively.

Good stuff. This is a subject I find fascinating. The internet fundamentally shifts industries. But the complexities involved with the industry of education make it hard to understand what this means.

Regardless, there are too many young people taking on mountains of debt to earn degrees that can’t pay off that debt. That problem is coupled with or caused by the myth that you have some sort of a right to a “college degree” (or that you even need one!)

How does one guide a new user from on-boarding, to low proficiency, to high proficiency? With progressive reduction, the UI adapts to the user’s proficiency.

Really cool. LayerVault gradually simplifies the UI as you become more “comfortable” with it. Does seem like you run the risk of destroying that comfortability by changing things on the user. But if done properly and gradually, it could work.

Though I confess I’m not sure I see the point? The users who show that comfortability obviously like the UI the way it is, and you’re still forced to start with a UI that may be more cluttered than you want.

There’s so much writing on the Internet that I’m never sure is worth the time it takes to read. But Grantland always leaves me feeling like it was time well spent.