The Nintendo Wii U tablet-style controller will not be sold separately from it new HD console?

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freebs2 said:

theARTIST0017 said:

YOU ARE MISSING THE WHOLE POINT.

Your statements are mostly based on IF's and YOUR OPINIONS. Don't get me wrong here bro you are entitled to your opinion, BUT. $100 for a Wii-U remote? Are you kidding me bro? Just becasue the only thing different between it and a Wii Remote is a screen and slightly better tech? You can purchase a new DS Lite for around that.

If I don't own a Wii, and I buy a Wii-U, I want four Wii-U controllers or at least the option of pluging in Gamecube controllers so that I may play Smash Brothers the way its supposed to be played. Oh and a Wii-U controller would more likely be $50 not $100.

Yes sorry, I'm missing the point.When you talk about the Gamecube controller I agree, but what's different exactly between the WiiU controller and Classic control to play SSB? You have the same buttons. About the 100$ WiiU controller, yes that's a very rough guess, but what makes you think this controller won't be more expansive to produce than a DS lite. It has a lot of things you normally have in a DS: buttons, speakers, wireless connectivity, a battery, a much bigger screen, with a much higher resolution, even without internal rendering it will need a small endebbed processor to manage video streaming. In the end I think it will cost a lot more to produce than a DSlite. That said pricing is not all a matter of production costs, still I think a 70 to 100$ is more realistic than a 50$-70$.

I'm going to agree with Padib above and say the Classic Controller, at least when it comes to SSB sucks. At least Brawl gave us the option to use Gamecube controllers. 

Processing? Oh please the Wii-U does most of the processing. Now I will give you  that it has a lot of the stuff a DS lite does but the way I think about it, if Nintendo decides that only 1 or 2 Wii-U Controllers can be used with the console, then they will be taking a step backwards. Sorry if I sound blunt but thats the way I see it. Multiplayer has always been  a big impact in my family especially four player and there are many in my family that don't like the Wii Remote/Classic Controller. They do however love Gamecube controllers. This will be a make it or break it for the system.