Did Nintendo Just blow it?

[peachbuggy]

I thought the new controller looked AWESOME! Especially the part where someone else can come and watch the telly and you can continue to play the game on the screen as if it was a handheld. That was a good idea. Hope the opposition don't end up stealing this idea again. What disappointed me about this years' conference was the lack of Wii games. I know the titles were shown on the screen at the end but surely it wouldn't have been too much of a problem to show a rolling montage of game footage of them on the screen as the attendees filed out?

I found the demo showing what the Wiiu could do, with the bird flying around as AMAZING graphics. They looked photorealistic to me. Am sure there will be no problems on the graphics front for the Wiiu. The philosophy that the Wiiu is going after ALL gamers seemed spot on too. If they could pull that off it would be an amazing achievement. The ultimate business model.

I think the main problem for me was that there were unrealistic expectations due to leaked "so called" documents showing an amazing line-up of games for project cafe as it was then known. Timed exclusive GTAV, bioshock etc. That was just an amazing list of so-called games and the hype they could have generated would have been impossible to keep up with-unless they were all announced, which, in hindsight would never have happened. Far too hopeful. I felt a bit underwhelmed because- even though i'm not a particular fan , i kept waiting and expecting an announcement of the Rockstar CEO or something, coming onto the stage to announce GTA5 timed exclusive for Wiiu. All because of that damned list. Kept expecting some kind of MEGATON announcement. Which never came.

In short. Conference was quite good but because of leaked (fake) documents, maybe peoples' expectations were too high.