| archbrix said:
5. They are concerned about price when considering buying three additional controllers, but clearly it can support more than one for at least some games. They've even mentioned the fact that friends bringing their controllers over is likely. I'm sure you couldn't stream Crysis 2 flawlessly to three or more controllers and the TV at once, but do you think Madden wouldn't support two screen-based controllers when all it would require is streaming play-calling? Doubtful. |
I just wanted to emphasize this point ...
I've seen countless threads and several articles which make dishonest arguments that compare the cost of owning systems in odd ways. In one article from a professional journalist he compared the cost of buying a Wii with 3 Wiimotes, 3 nunchucks, 4 classic controllers and Wii fit to buying an XBox 360 with Kinect; when I commented on his article that Kinect only supported 2 players and he needed to add 3 XBox 360 controllers and a fitness game to his XBox 360 bundle to approach fairness I got a response from the author that was incoherent gibberish.
If Nintendo is looking at the Wii U controller and expecting it to be $80 or $100 at retail they might be seriously concerned that people will look at their system's price and add $300 (or more) because they believe that they need 4 of these controllers. Right now Nintendo may be weighing the damage of releasing a system that only supports one controller against the damage done by releasing a system with $100 controllers.
