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Should Nintendo consider removing the gamepad from future WiiU bundles.

Remove the gamepad 98 34.75%
 
Keep the gamepad 155 54.96%
 
View results 29 10.28%
 
Total:282
Voltaris on 12 December 2014

Unless they are absolutely sure they have a killer game that fully utilises the game pad, or atleast a number of decent games that make good use of it, then keep it. otherwise ditch the b*tch and sell it with just an amiibo reader instead



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Frogger on 12 December 2014

The only people relevant to this poll a are the ones who won't buy a wii u because of the gamepad. Anyone's personal liking for it is irrelevant. It should be optional, not mandatory.



Frogger on 12 December 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Poll will obviously end with 'keep the gamepad' winning.

But IMO it shouldn't even be a keep or don't keep thing, there should just be an option for those that would rather have a cheaper console. I don't see why Nintendo can't keep their current Wii U models while also offering a cheaper alternative with no gamepad.


I don't think that anyone saying they should drop the gamepad means that they should stop selling the bundle with it. Just do what Microsoft did with Kinect.



super_etecoon on 12 December 2014
AZWification said:

Nope.. God, these GamePad-related questions are getting kinda tedious.. :/

Agreed.  And it's always the same usual suspects who would never buy a WiiU anyway.  They just feel superior because their console is performing better in the market and therefore they think they are filled with wisdom about what the gaming market wants.  They fail to realize that not all markets are the same, nor should they be.



McGilliguts on 12 December 2014

No gamepad please. It's as useless as the second screen on the 3ds.



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super_etecoon on 12 December 2014
McGilliguts said:
No gamepad please. It's as useless as the second screen on the 3ds.


How is offscreen play useless?  How is a persistent map useless?  How is real time item selection useless?  How is asynchronous gameplay useless?  How is drawing on a tablet some of the coolest pictures I've seen on this side of the internet useless?  Really...you may not be interested in any of that (I can't see why) but for many a people those are features.  Those are features many of us think should be standard for gaming going forward.  This is exactly why this concept needs to die.  You guys just want Nintendo's console to be a cookie cutter of the competition.  Why?  



Conina on 12 December 2014
Goodnightmoon said:
I´m just going to re-post what devilrising has posted 14 hours ago in the other trhead. No more question about it.

Devilrising:

The GamePad, for all intents and purposes, is a bad ass controller. It has NO major flaws or drawbacks, unless you want to argue size, which isn't ideal, but even that you get over after awhile, due to how light the damn thing is.

Battery time? No multitouch? Low resolution? Unusual high share of the whole production costs of a console?



tak13 on 12 December 2014

And how the hell future wii u owners would play MARIO MAKER for example?



McGilliguts on 12 December 2014
super_etecoon said:
McGilliguts said:
No gamepad please. It's as useless as the second screen on the 3ds.


How is offscreen play useless?  How is a persistent map useless?  How is real time item selection useless?  How is asynchronous gameplay useless?  How is drawing on a tablet some of the coolest pictures I've seen on this side of the internet useless?  Really...you may not be interested in any of that (I can't see why) but for many a people those are features.  Those are features many of us think should be standard for gaming going forward.  This is exactly why this concept needs to die.  You guys just want Nintendo's console to be a cookie cutter of the competition.  Why?  

The screen is too poor for offscreen IMO. If i wanted that, I'd get a handheld.

And you can only look at one screen at a time, so most of the gamepad s other functions can be replaced by the pause button.

There are a few other things such as the scanning in zombiu, but honestly those get old after fifteen minutes.



super_etecoon on 12 December 2014
McGilliguts said:
super_etecoon said:
McGilliguts said:
No gamepad please. It's as useless as the second screen on the 3ds.


How is offscreen play useless?  How is a persistent map useless?  How is real time item selection useless?  How is asynchronous gameplay useless?  How is drawing on a tablet some of the coolest pictures I've seen on this side of the internet useless?  Really...you may not be interested in any of that (I can't see why) but for many a people those are features.  Those are features many of us think should be standard for gaming going forward.  This is exactly why this concept needs to die.  You guys just want Nintendo's console to be a cookie cutter of the competition.  Why?  

The screen is too poor for offscreen IMO. If i wanted that, I'd get a handheld.

And you can only look at one screen at a time, so most of the gamepad s other functions can be replaced by the pause button.

There are a few other things such as the scanning in zombiu, but honestly those get old after fifteen minutes.

The screen is amazing.  Half the time I find myself looking at it instead of the tv anyway.  I can look t both screens no problem...and my phone to boot. We are a multitasking culture...that's not going away.  I don't think many developers have utilized the gamepad in revolutionary ways...but that doesn't mean I don't think it isn't revolutionary.  These things take time.  Even when dual sticks were made available not all developers utilized them.