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Killiana1a on 11 June 2011
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padib said:
Khuutra said:
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.

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?

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!"

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.

Okay, so Kiliana your points are based off a false assumptions.
The WiiU pad is not simply a tablet. It certainly is a tablet, but not simply a tablet. Like a square is a rectangle, but it's also more than a rectangle, it's a square. What makes the WiiU pad different than a regular tablet you'll ask?

First of all, its images are being generated by the WiiU system. Now while that in an of itself doesn't make much of a difference, this point does. What happens with the fact that the WiiU system generates the image is that it becomes a processing hub for all activities in the game. These activites can all happen on the console with no output (boring), be outputted on the TV screen, or be outputted on the handheld. How does that change everything? Well, since the processing hub know of all activities in the games, the outputs it provides can interact. The movements you make on one terminal affect the 3D world you're in.

Listen, it's hard to explain, but just check out the showcase demoes. Someone post the links again please, I'm on my netbook and its too damn slow.

I have seen the games for the WiiU. Not much different than what will be offered on any Sony or Microsoft console with the exception of the Zelda, Mario, Donkey Kong line-up.

As for the controller, it is no Wii Remote. My first thoughts when seeing it was "WOW Nintendo is going to give Apple and DROID a run for their money!"

Then, I read the specs, discussed it with friends who went to E3, and then I realized something:

The WiiU controller is equivalent to a 15 year old getting a nose ring, a mohawk, and dying his hair green. It is not "revolutionary" as the Wii Remote was. It is a big cocktease.

If calling it how I see it makes me a Nintendo hater, then I will plead guilty. No need to waste time on jury selection.