Your E3 wishlist &/or predictions

[NightDragon83]

adsl said:

NightDragon83 said:

adsl said:

My wishlist:

• NextBox running Windows 8 and (backward) compatible with Windows games;
• Nintendo droping the support to Wii Pad and making the Wii Remote+ the default controler for Wii U;
• New Super Mario Bros Mii;
• The New Legend of Zelda;
• Wii U Sports;
• Just Dance 4;
• Monster Hunter 4.

Nintendo dropping the ONE THING that separates the Wii U from the PS360, and instead opting to stick with a controle scheme that sucks for pretty much any non-Nintendo games?

Yeah, good luck with that one.

For ordinary gamers the Wii Pad is a step back. There are much more ordinary gamers then hardcore gamers out there. In order to keep expanding the market Nintendo should keep treating hardcore gamers as they are: a small and barely profitable market segment.

Unfortunately Nintendo seems to not want to do that, so people like me are going to become former gamers again (It took me 10 years to buy a console after the SNES).

You mean those same "ordinary gamers" that are currently snatching up touch screen and tablet devices left and right like the iPhone and iPad?  The Wii Pad IS Nintendo's way of continuing to expand the market, while at the same time trying to recapture the hardcore market that got them to where they are in the first place.  Motion controls can only do so much... the people that are currently buying into Kinect are the same people that went nuts killing each other trying to buy the Wii a few years ago, and now it just sits there and collects dust for the most part.

I know alot of people like yourself that stopped gaming regularly after the 16-bit era due to a number of reasons, but the standard control scheme hasn't changed much since then... only difference between today's controllers and an SNES pad is two analog sticks and an extra set of shoulder buttons.  I know the setup isn't necessarily ideal for everyone, but at the same time you can't expect Nintendo to force us longtime gamers to use a controller that's only good for very specific motion-controlled games and throwback 2D platformers without having to stick one of several attachments into it like the "nunchuk" or "classic" controller to play the games we love.