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I thought the Wii was ok, it was kind of cute that an underpowered device was outselling ms and Sony for a while. But it was clearly not going to work a second

by smegel 13y ago

I thought the Wii was ok, it was kind of cute that an underpowered device was outselling ms and Sony for a while. But it was clearly not going to work a second time, especially after the novelty factor of the original had fallen away. Now with Kinect especially, nintendo really needed to address performance issues and come up with something more than wii 1.1

cpleppert 13y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that the tablet thing was incredibly gimmicky? It doesn't add anything and just increases the price of the console. Nintendo could've delivered a console that was significantly more powerful than the current-gen a year ago and yet would be much cheaper than the next gen. Everything about the marketing was just bizarre. I don't know of anyone who has it or even wants it.
- teamonkey 13y ago
  The Wii's 'remote' was deliberately designed to make the console more accessible. Non-gamers were still confused by games controllers, but the Wii's controller looked a bit like a TV remote - something everyone could understand. If you extend the thinking to the WiiU then you see that because more people are familiar with tablets and touch screens these days, and in fact a huge number of gamers are now on tablet devices. Adding a tablet controller would surely make the WiiU more accessible to non-gamers. You can kind of see some sort of logic there, though it doesn't seem at all inspired or with any foresight. Remember too that both Sony and Microsoft are pushing their own second screen technologies very hard this generation.
- glhaynes 13y ago
  Have you played on one? Everybody I know that's actually used one likes it a lot, and it allows gameplay possibilities that have never really been possible before. (That said, it badly needs more games.)
  - robryan 13y ago
    I think it would be holding a lot of people back from buying. Maybe it is great once you start playing, from images online though it looks weird and awkward to use.

by smegel 13y ago

cpleppert 13y ago

Am I the only one who thinks that the tablet thing was incredibly gimmicky? It doesn't add anything and just increases the price of the console. Nintendo could've delivered a console that was significantly more powerful than the current-gen a year ago and yet would be much cheaper than the next gen. Everything about the marketing was just bizarre. I don't know of anyone who has it or even wants it.

teamonkey 13y ago
The Wii's 'remote' was deliberately designed to make the console more accessible. Non-gamers were still confused by games controllers, but the Wii's controller looked a bit like a TV remote - something everyone could understand. If you extend the thinking to the WiiU then you see that because more people are familiar with tablets and touch screens these days, and in fact a huge number of gamers are now on tablet devices. Adding a tablet controller would surely make the WiiU more accessible to non-gamers. You can kind of see some sort of logic there, though it doesn't seem at all inspired or with any foresight. Remember too that both Sony and Microsoft are pushing their own second screen technologies very hard this generation.
glhaynes 13y ago
Have you played on one? Everybody I know that's actually used one likes it a lot, and it allows gameplay possibilities that have never really been possible before. (That said, it badly needs more games.)
- robryan 13y ago
  I think it would be holding a lot of people back from buying. Maybe it is great once you start playing, from images online though it looks weird and awkward to use.