[As for you, you either just misunderstood what I meant, or simply chose to put words in my mouth in attempts to discredit me (I never said the tablet wouldn't be focus of the new console-- I was saying we needed to keep an open mind and not assume it was the main or only control input and suggested that it could take the backseat other control methods-- which, depending how you look at it, it apparently will on occasion). As far as overall premise goes, I was 100% right.
I'm still quite confident that you're all kidding yourselves because you want to believe a local multi-player design could work, and not because you realistically think it will.
At this point, I expect this touch screen controller is going to be primarily, if not exclusively, for single player experiences (not counting online), and for giving you an option of playing away from the TV. It'll likely be an auxiliary controller, not the main controller-- which will most likely be another pointer-based controller (which works well for both single player experiences and multi-player parlor games anyway). This touch screen controller will appeal mainly to gamers. I don't see the casual crowd flocking to it, and I don't see Nintendo willing to lose them. Nintendo will be trying to lure in both. That's where this secondary controller comes in... It certainly won't be designed around multi-player.
You say it's kinda silly to assume what will definitely be the center point of the console won't be the main controller... That's assuming its intended purpose was to be a controller. I don't believe that to be the case. If its main intended function was for streaming and we just misinterpreted the leaked reports, then it's not silly at all. In fact, the idea that we'd be expected to have to likely pay $100 for each controller, is a lot sillier.
You were saying...?
Um... whose side are you trying to back up with these quotes? I'm certainly not seeing any inconsistency.
It clearly
isn't designed around the multiplayer model you were supporting... So how was I wrong there?
Secondly, since I was keeping an open mind about the possibility of there also being a new remote, which could have been considered the main control method in that scenario, and since even now, one could still argue that it serves more auxiliary purposes at times, especially since its uses are going to vary... that part was hardly wrong either.
Also, if you read it properly, you'll see I never disputed the tablet wouldn't still be the main focus point of the console (the tablet being the main focus of the console never meant it still had to be the main controller-- just the part that set it apart from its predecessor).
No matter how you're to trying to interpret it to make yourself feel right, I know what I said, I know what I meant, and I think it's equally clear to any objective observers.
The irony here is the more you keep trying to break my analysis apart, the more you actually seem to be proving it to be accurate in the first place. So, you're really only making yourself look foolish.
Seriously... let it go.
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