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Maybe they should a design a game console that can, you know, play games.
Sorry, but the WiiU is nowhere on my radar. They have shown nothing that appeals to me as a gamer. I bought a PSP before Sony knew what they were doing with it and I got rid of it accordingly. I'll never buy another console before the company making it knows what the fuck they're doing with it (hence I yet to buy a Vita, mind you).
Sorry, but the WiiU is nowhere on my radar. They have shown nothing that appeals to me as a gamer. I bought a PSP before Sony knew what they were doing with it and I got rid of it accordingly. I'll never buy another console before the company making it knows what the fuck they're doing with it (hence I yet to buy a Vita, mind you).
MS & Sony may have just found their upper hand. If they can release their new consoles with touchscreen controllers & have it able to handle 4 gamepads, they could finish Nintendo's dream for them. C'mon Nintendo, stop being so cheap!
And thus history repeats itself.
All that remains is a flimsy launch, weak 3rd party support, and a buttload of unfulfilled promises of "things to come".
All that remains is a flimsy launch, weak 3rd party support, and a buttload of unfulfilled promises of "things to come".
a typical nintendo launch.
the real important stuff will come out in the 2013 christmas, like the 3DS did last year.
the real important stuff will come out in the 2013 christmas, like the 3DS did last year.
The problem I have with Nintendo (Sony and Microsoft are just as guilty of this as well) is releasing features after the fact, that are half-ass supported. I am looking at you Motion Plus. The Classic Controller at least got some air time. There have been other things that Ninty has done within this nature. So seeing that they are not supporting dual gamepads at release, translates in mind as meaning there will be no games other than a Mario title or something goofy that will support this feature. Meaning there is little to no reason to get it unless you want to play that one thing. I hope I am wrong here, but I just have a feeling.
One one hand Nintendo can claim they had no idea that people were interested in usuing 2 Gamepads with one game, (trying to focus on the asymmetrical gameplay aspect) then again if you think about it... they show off a brand new controller in an era where 4 controllers is standard, then they kind of dropped the ball. Hopefully the online portion will make up for this oversight, but it's difficult not to look at this as a hard miscalculation on Nintendo's part. Still... I have no friends, so 2-4 local players is almost never an option for me.
The dual gamepad feature was something introduced late in development. Everyone making games for it was under the impression that it would only support one gamepad per system, so that's what they built games for. This is a natural result of changing plans late in development of a console. It doesn't really matter much to me one way or the other.
I won't be buying one right away, anyway. I'll wait till the price goes down.
I won't be buying one right away, anyway. I'll wait till the price goes down.
"Games need to be built that can take advantage of the two GamePad controllers,"
Sigh.. The "wait for the games, before we give you a promised feature".. Honestly, if those games never get made, or too few come to the table, we can kiss this feature goodbye..
@Forsakeneyes
Because duel gamepad support wasn't even going to be a thing till people got pissy when they saw it at last years E3 and bitched about it.. And then it took Nintendo till November to say they were thinking about it, and till this years E3 to really confirm it..
So.. yeah.. thats not a ton of time to go back to the drawing board, despite the fact that dual gamepad support should have been a thing for *the console* from the start.
@Timtheterrible
I'm going to be real honest.. Unless they come out of left field with a really amazing reason to own one (and for me, we haven't) I'm not even considering getting one for about a year and a half, to two years.
Reason being is I'm one of "those" people (though not nearly impassioned to lose my shit over it) who went all wild finding a Wii thinking Nintendo was going to change the way they handle consoles, only to wait almost 2 years for more then 3 games that I wanted to play to be released, and learn along the way that most of the 3rd parties bailed on almost all their projects for the system after all of the hype that they had tons of 3rd party support for that system. They're going to need to prove they're going to support the system AND that the 3rd parties aren't going to bail on them (The ports however are painting a bleak picture)
As The Who say, I won't be fooled again.. Specially since the Wii wasn't the first time Nintendo had fooled many of us.
Sigh.. The "wait for the games, before we give you a promised feature".. Honestly, if those games never get made, or too few come to the table, we can kiss this feature goodbye..
@Forsakeneyes
Because duel gamepad support wasn't even going to be a thing till people got pissy when they saw it at last years E3 and bitched about it.. And then it took Nintendo till November to say they were thinking about it, and till this years E3 to really confirm it..
So.. yeah.. thats not a ton of time to go back to the drawing board, despite the fact that dual gamepad support should have been a thing for *the console* from the start.
@Timtheterrible
I'm going to be real honest.. Unless they come out of left field with a really amazing reason to own one (and for me, we haven't) I'm not even considering getting one for about a year and a half, to two years.
Reason being is I'm one of "those" people (though not nearly impassioned to lose my shit over it) who went all wild finding a Wii thinking Nintendo was going to change the way they handle consoles, only to wait almost 2 years for more then 3 games that I wanted to play to be released, and learn along the way that most of the 3rd parties bailed on almost all their projects for the system after all of the hype that they had tons of 3rd party support for that system. They're going to need to prove they're going to support the system AND that the 3rd parties aren't going to bail on them (The ports however are painting a bleak picture)
As The Who say, I won't be fooled again.. Specially since the Wii wasn't the first time Nintendo had fooled many of us.
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