Speaking as an introvert who's had to interact with extroverts: the key to interacting with extroverts is to let go of your politeness just long enough to let them know they aren't instantly in charge just because they're the ones who act more gung-ho most of the time. Introversion doesn't have to mean never taking charge, and certainly shouldn't mean not being respected when you do.

Well, unless you take charge and don't do a good job at it, but that's another matter. Introversion versus extroversion is more about how much energy you gain or lose during social interaction; introverted people can still behave confidently when the need arises, we're just more comfortable and able to re-charge in less-social situations than in social ones.

...It's not actually TITLED Zelda Wii U, isn't it? I thought that was just what people called it because it's a Zelda game on the Wii U and we don't have a name for it yet.

But, I think it's really this simple: Nintendo is focusing on their next big console now, since the Wii U is in decline and everyone else is more or less focused on the NX as it is.

Sony can only fund so many projects at one time, so what might seem like a cheap way to make money through an old franchise to us might be an unnecessary risk in the grand scheme of things to them. Even if ten projects are technically "cheap," if those ten projects fail, then that's a big financial loss all together. Sony doesn't have the kind of franchise identity that Nintendo does, where if they put out a few mediocre titles people will just shrug and wait for the next "real" game. And since they have other markets to pull profit from--all those other hardware things they put out that aren't gaming consoles--they don't need to wring every IP they have for money to fund their "real games," either.

Sony's just in a better position than Nintendo to be more restrained with their big IPs.

I don't see a whole lot of reason to bother with SteamOS. Windows is still the most widely-used OS out there, so PC games will always be made compatible with it. And I'll always want Windows compatibility for older games anyway, so at best I'll probably do the same thing with SteamOS that I do with older generations of Windows: run it on a virtual machine on the off-chance I need that specific operating system for something. SteamOS makes sense for something like a mini-PC-thing to hook up to your television, but at that point it's just sort of meeting console comfort and PC gaming halfway and will really only cater to a specific kind of consumer--maybe that'll carve a market out for itself, but it's not going to really compete with either Windows PC gaming or console gaming.

Oh, sorry. I mixed them up in my head because I was sleepy at the time. I thought "ninja" and my mind jumped to Metal Gear Rising. I don't play many of Team Ninja's games.

That's not the goal of a business, though. And many gamers, many of their customers, would just end up rejecting their market domination anyway, flocking instead to the PC or to other consoles, and developers would in turn respond to that, making games for other platforms to sell to those gamers. The Console Market World Domination Plot you suggest is flimsy at best, even if you ignore the fact that Nintendo has no reason to want to drive all competition out of the market wholesale--it wouldn't eliminate competition, it would simply open the door for other companies to attempt to compete.

Well, you know... that and the fact that Blu-Ray discs are a fantastic storage medium for video games, and are pretty durable compared to older kinds of disc media. Being able to play video Blu-Rays is just a nice bonus that makes sense for a console once you have a Blu-Ray disc drive in there.

The Order: 1886 is just kind of a... CG movie with gameplay interspersed throughout because the developers were obligated to include it in a video game. The developers' statements kind of reflect a lack of real respect for medium, to be honest, like they really just want to be making movies but can't.

I think this YouTube video did a good job of summing it up:

They kind of already end up doing that with new console generations every now and again, so the prospect of having a new device that runs the same OS, UI, store app, and all of the same games, without as much need for actual tech savvy, is still pretty appealing in its way. The main draw of console gaming has always been in having a device that you don't have to fiddle as much with. They're probably also factoring in the option to trade their entire old console in toward purchasing the upgraded one, while still being able to keep everything they had for the original console to use for the new. It's still easier for the lay person to wrap their head around than the process of buying a new piece of hardware, opening the thing up, realizing their motherboard can't fit the new GPU *and* their wireless adaptor because the god-dang GPU covers the PCIe slot below the one slot on the motherboard that will accept it, and then needing to also replace their internal wireless adapter with something that fits into one of the standard PCI slots.

...I'm not bitter! Not one bit bitter. Not bitter one bit. > = /

With a console all of the hardware is presumably selected so that it all works well together without needing the user to do any gymnastics. You know, unless it's the launch-model Xbox 360 or something. That was a fine buck of arse-juice at launch... sheesh.

Unfortunately my only foray into Linux-related things was in a Linux class that used Fedora and focused entirely on teaching us to use the command line (and the teacher blatantly didn't know what he was doing and just had us follow the book, needing to check it himself whenever he was asked a question...), so I can't help with Ubuntu specifically. But it shouldn't be too hard to find a tutorial on installing Ubuntu? You might consider trying to install it on a virtual machine to make sure you understand the process, before installing it on a real device.