Personally, I've had some high hopes with the Wii U. To me, the even Nintendo consoles have been my favorites. SNES and GC. Wii U makes 6. My expectation was that we would probably see with the Wii U a better application of motion controls now that Nintendo had experimented with it and streamlined the tech and hopefully it would lead to the great game designs both those systems displayed.
However, although keeping the Wiimotes as controllers, Nintendo has gone with a brand new control tech again. That said, it was basically taking the DS and making it into a console which again seemed like a fine idea as I've been leaning towards the DS as possibly Nintendo's best system for awhile now. So, to bring that tech and ideas into the home console space seemed like a good idea as Nintendo and other 3rd parties released some great, great titles on that system since they have some experience making games to utilize such tech and know how to design them well. Plus, motion control just never really captured my enthusiasm so yay touch screen.
However, with the 3DS now taking off, it has provided less incentive to get the Wii U since it has the same experience in some ways and is allowing for some new game design by it's increased power. And now the Wii U has all manner of controls. Pro controller, Wiimotes and Gamepad are being utilized for different games or for the same game. Plus, only having one persona playing the gamepad makes it stick out as odd when other players all have to use a different remote.
Stogi mentioned that the expectation was that every person playing the Wii U would have a gamepad not just one person or two (which will probably never happen). And I think that doing so would have greatly added to the appeal of the system. Multiplayer with a DS is fine but having the opportunity to have people playing in one room sharing a screen while having a second screen to themselves could open up a whole lot more ideas than is currently allowed.
If it is so expensive to make and sell gamepads that the cost to do that would be very high, then maybe Nintendo should have waited another generation before implementing this idea and have been able to deliver it properly when the system could handle 4 gamepads at once and the cost for the tech would be lower. Right now, Nintendo has to deal with HD programming, Gamepad ideas and support along with implenting Wiimotes and motion control still. No wonder the games seem to be slow in coming and 3rd parties are uninterested in supporting the console. They are making development a bit complicated.
That said, I still hold out hope that we will see some killer software becuase of the DS likeness. Even the DS took awhile to gain traction and by the time it implented Wi-Fi play, it finally had become the system seller we know it as today but it was a lot of tech demos and minigames at first as well.
Topic: Anyone notice all of the tablet support shown at E3 this year? (Read 12248 times)
