Ladies and gents I feel we have finally come full circle (Nintendo hate)

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Nintendo shows a console with a bat-shit insane design that is offering something we've already had for years and they are already applying constraints to that very console. They aren't offering anything new to the people who own any of the current consoles, we haven't seen a game that will blow us away visually, we haven't seen the console play a game well in terms of controller input and everything coming out about it in regards to it only makes it's concept seem much more constricted than it should be (one Wii-U controller per console, dodging questions relating to their online implementation, no Gamecube BC, 3DS pads instead of actual sticks, D-Pad under the 3DS pad).

It also doesn't help that they didn't explain their approach very well at their conference and despite the whole 'we want the hardcores' thing they've suddenly decided to jump on, all we got from their conference was a shuriken throwing game, some ports, some Mii's, some lame golf thing and another Mario game.

Nintendo showed me nothing that impressed me, all they've shown is that they took the 3DS approach and have decided that the easiest way to come up with a new console is to think of an old gimmick and bring it back as a new innovation, while also offering nothing good to show off that gimmick. I also can't rely on them to support their own crazy concepts, it's not like they did a great job with it on the Wii outside of Wii Sports. They went for the shock approach again and I don't think it will work this time.

It could all change by next year, they might take some criticisms and work on them, but I've seen what Nintendo did with the Wii, they rarely ever listen and if they don't listen, then I'm not interested. I'm not going to fall for their bullshit a second time.

Now watch as this thread will be filled with Nintendo fans agreeing with you, instantly going into defence mode over a console they know barely anything about and continue to support a company that barely releases any games for their current system and has actually allowed Tiger Woods PGA Tour and a Street Fighter port to be the best releases of the year for their systems. I'd recommend approaching the Wii-U with caution, because I think Nintendo have been a bit lost as of recently and you guys are going to be the ones to suffer in the end.

Just an addition, I laughed at the 'jealousy' claims, jealous of what? That I can actually find a use for my system this year by playing dozens of amazing games? That the future of my system isn't a hanging by a thread called Skyward Sword? That I actually have options in the things I want to do with my system outside of leaving it in a dusty cupboard or playing NSMB Wii for the 50th time? Don't be silly, people have a reason to be critical of Nintendo and their approach to a new console and that is because they have been an extremely sub par console publisher as of recently.