"New Controller" seems to be a trademark or something, hence the capital letters in the trailer on every screen. Could they have used an even less imaginative name for it? Anyway, seems boring From a gamer's point of view there's nothing about it excites me at all, I even had some serious facepalming going on when they showed that shuriken aiming game, not to mention baseball, fitness and golf. WTF? Maybe it's useful as kind of an iPad surrogate for the whole family. Dad's sitting in his armchair with the "New Controller", the kids and wife are watching TV. Now, for instance, he can just "wave" his picture on the big screen so all can enjoy the nice holiday snapshot he just found- "Oh $%&!! I still had the p0rn window open in the background..." I don't even want to know what the U in Wii U stands for. I haven't come up for a stupid word with U yet, but I'm sure somebody will have accomplished that until tomorrow.
Not going to disagree with you, but EA publishes a lot of great games from other devs. Burnout Paradise, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Dead Space series, and so on. Exactly what i sad on the previous page. 3rd party support would be interesting if it meant exclusive games. For example, there was a video of DIRT from codemasters running on WiiU. It looked just like DIRT3, already avaiable on PS3/X360/PC. What's the point?! Also, it's just me or touchscreen controls are getting overused? It's fun to sometimes use touch controls to play Angry Birds on my cellphone, but on a real gaming console? nah...
This. When we get it I will play with the old controllers as much as I can.... Sorry, but that giant iPad controller is not my cup of tea. I'm glad they are upgrading the graphics and making it more online capable, but again... I WANTED SOME MAGIC AND I DIDN'T GET IT! As soon as I can I'll get myself a DSXL and just wait until the available library for the WiiU is interesting enough to invest in it. I will definitely do it, but I'll wait. Oh, and I loved the Assasins Creed for WiiU. So far the best news of the day. In any case, I still love Reggie
Random thought: who's going to be first to offer the upgraded version of this controller with a 3D screen built in; Sony or Nintendo?
If this is the future of gaming right here......defiantly not liking it. Still prefer having an actual controller myself.
Does anyone else feel that Nintendo might be forgetting one of the core mistakes that Sega made? Having too many things going on at one time...
With all Collections remakes from Sony, i'm amazed they haven't planned or announced a Killzone Collection with the first PS2 game and the PSP game, running on HD. I would buy that. The big difference is that Nintendo is loaded with money from Wii and DS sales. They have been making profit on those consoles from day one. Plus i think they'll stop producing the Wii as soon as the WiiU hits the market. They'll keep the DS for kids and 3DS for teenagers / adults.
One thing I'm concerned about is the whole controller situation. It was bad enough on the Wii wondering if a game would work with Wiimote or Classic Controller or GC pad, or all of them. Now they're throwing a new controller into the mix as well as allowing the use of the Wiimote and presumably the CC in combination. Bet you that original Wiimotes won't work, and it'll only be the new ones with Motion Plus built in that are compatible.
The MegaDrive was a success, but it had the SNES to battle the market. Nintendo have been making profit from the portable market ever since the original gameboy. The Wii didn't had a big production cost, as the whole hardware was already avaiable. Plus Nintendo sold millions of Wii to those people that never bothered with gaming. Here's a very good and long read: SegaBase at Eidolon's Inn http://www.eidolons-inn.net/tiki-index.php?page=SegaBase You'll take time to read everything (if you didn't already), but it does show how SEGA made bad decisions over and over... and over again. Back on topic: At this point, Nintendo can have it's shares of bad decisions and those won't hurt them. As long as they release a new Mario, a new Zelda and a new casual game that help them sell millions of those. One bad decision they made was the region lock on the 3DS. This totally kills the purpose of portable gaming. But what's hurting 3DS sales? Lack of games.
Nintendo's been enormously profitable with the Wii and DS. Unconventional works for them, they're never going back to being the kind of company they were before. Get over it. As long as they can make money building kooky hardware and selling 1st party titles, they have no incentive to adopt the Sony/Microsoft business model. EA Bro kept tripping over his tongue lol.
sorry, isn't this system GC compatible? Or did they kill that arm off to prevent some legacy hacks and sell the games anew?
The irony is that in 5min anyone can come up with better uses for this WiiUmote than what nintendo has done in the year or so since they created it. Not only RTS games, picture sniper games: this+wiigun would be the dopest silent scope port ever Let alone that in any game were you need to configure your gear before a battle (Mass Effect, Fallout) this controller its leaps and bound better than regular controllers or motion like the wiimote or kinect. Flight simulators, FPS, racing games, strategy, thats where this thing makes sense. The demos on the other hand were all gimmicky stuff like the ninja stars, nothing that you cant do even better with kinect or move. So whatever comes after this will be as awesome as the Dreamcast? In that case I'm in...
I think Nintendo can deliver great games. And with the whole HD thing I am confident we will get some amazing content. We might have to wait on that. The new controller to me seems like a step backwards. However, I am willing to give it a try if the games they launch are good. Last year Nintendo's E3 conference was amazing. This year I'm underwhelmed.... But, I guess you cannot always win, right?
