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Mr Khan said:
NightDragon83 said:

Restoring "retro controls"?

 

Oh... you mean like THESE retro controls???

Yeah baby... let's party like it's 1985 all over again!  Who needs things like dual analog sticks and pressure sensitive triggers when you can have a good old fashioned 8-way D-pad and a whopping 2 buttons!

You merely reinforce my argument. The versitility of what the Wii remote could do in one setting (especially when combined with Nunchuk) makes the retro SNES derivatives used today look quite obsolete. The U Pad is a step in the SNES-derivative direction as well.

No, it doesn't reinforce your point. On the contrary the relative success of the virtual console and Wiiware (prior to abandonment) and the necessary versatility of the Wii Remote show that trad controls are here to stay.

In terms of versatility, the WiiU is both a tablet and a trad controller, as well as a secondary back-compatible Wii terminal. Talk about versatility, WiiU has me much more impressed.