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Khuutra on 10 June 2011
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Killiana1a said:
Khuutra said:


The WiiU controller is not a tablet. As near as can be told it's just a video receiver with a touchscreen. In order to have the functionality you describe, all those programs would have to be run on the WiiU itself.

Though Nintendo showed off video chat as one of the conceptual uses of it, so they may be leaning in that direction.

Also your last line has caused a small part of my brain to begin to boil. It is heating up the rest of my head. I need to lie down.

Yes, I do have a Wii now after being a 360 and PC gamer (before the 360) for so long.  I have to update my profile, but here are the Wii games my family owns thus far:

1. Wii Sports

2. Wii Sports Resort

3. Country Dance (ask her, but her trying this out gave me plenty of laughs)

My little brother who (influenced by me undoubtedly) is strictly a Nintendo gamer. From family visits, I have had the opportunity to play New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Donkey Kong Country Returns. Both are great games, but they do not do it for me like the way the upcoming release of Final Fantasy 7 did the PlayStation for me, the way Grand Theft Auto 3 did the PlayStation 2 for me, and the way Fallout 3 did the Xbox 360 for me.

I am not knocking Nintendo, but with the Wii they lost a whole generation of gamers in hopes of getting that generation's parents back whose last video game may have been DuckHunt or Super Mario Bros 3.

As for the tablet PC comparison, I believe it is apt. Otherwise why put out a controller like that? Even crazier, why make it only a video receiver when with a screen that big they can do something truly revolutionary in making the first video game/console tablet PC device?

It may be as conservative and safe as a"video receiver." If so, then I believe (not predict) Nintendo will not see Wii numbers with the WiiU for reasons stated in my first post here:

1. I don't believe the WiiU will rival the PS3 in terms of graphics output (rather it will rival the Xbox 360).

2. Consumers will be enticed by the WiiU (specifically it's controller) and when they learn it is nothing more than a video receiver then their line of thought will be "what a freaking cocktease!"

3. Nintendo comes with the expectation of being the most "innovative" video game company, which basically means the Wii Remote was years ahead of it's time therefore Nintendo should be annually lauded as the most "innovative" video game company until they disappoint us with their new console.


Imagine my face going slowly more and more slack; the facade is sliding away, revealing the face beneath the veneer, and it is essentially stupid. There's hate there, an animal kind of hate that affects the self far more than the people around one. I clicked that blue button; this is my fault, coming back here.

I don't find your reasoning for a tablet comparison compelling or convincing.

The flesh slowly settles back into place. The veneer of intelligence reasserts itself.  Imagine then that I smile.

Nor do I find your beliefs  (not predictions) to be particularly bold - though they're not particularly strongly reasoned, either.