http://articles.gamerheadquarters.com/top10nintendonxmusthavefeatures.html

Can agree with most of this list. However 3 and 5 is a contradiction. How can you really have Wii U backwards compatibility with no touch screen controller?

A regular controller would be great. No need to find new ways of playing games just for the sake of being different.

Most important is #2, 3, 8, 9.

If Nintendo skips out on any of those then they'll be a big disadvantage all over again.

A controller with a touchscreen is inevitable, but it can be done without alienating consumers. The WiiU Gamepad is enourmus, a screen the size of a DS touchpad would have been fine. It would have made the controller smaller and avoid needing that much processing power from the console itself. Just imagine a slightly bigger Wavebird GC controller with a touchscreen in the midle.

Plus, Nintendo has used two screens since the DS, the dualscreen is not going away any time soon.

How is Animal Crossing the most needed NX feature?  NX should have that but... #1? not even close.

Backwards compatiblity is nice, buts its honestly not needed for a console to succede. If this feature is a top10 one, its at the back end of things, not #5.

How do they put "proper name" above haveing "3rd party support"? or "competitive hardware"?

Why is amiibo support even a "must have" feature? (or even top10)

gamerheadquarters wtf?

For what purpose? No need to make controllers more expensive than they already are.

I think the top5 should look like this:


1) Competitive Hardware
2) 3rd Party support
3) An Actual Online Service
4) Streaming Support
5) Strong Launch Titles

Rest? not really as important.

We live in a world dominated by smartphones and tablets, the touchscreen technology is not particulary expensive or new anymore.  Plus, Nintendo and other devs have used the doublescreen wondefully multiple times with the DS and the 3DS. A smaller screen won't eat all the processing power of the NX, so it won't hold the console back (hello Starfox Zero), while allowing the quirks and features of the second screen. True, on home consoles two screens are not that important, you are looking at the TV and not the controller, but having a small option works for a lot of things. The DS4 has a touchpad, and I'm sure it will be used fine, I can't see why the NX's controller shouldn't use a small touchscreen.

Really? The controller is not as important? What if it looks like the Atari Jaguar controller?

At this point I dont really care that much. I trust nintendo not to ship a crap controller.

Im not a fan of the gamepad the wii u has... Nintendo cant really do much worse than that one by my way of thinking.

The top5 I posted there are waaay more important, than the controller is.

Nintendo need to get with the times, and that means it needs "3rd party" & "A actual online service" & "steaming support" (social aspect stuff).

I also think strong launch titles matter more than the controller does, when it comes to the success of launching a console.