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Torillian on 11 June 2012
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Euphoria14 said:

While I am not convinced that it makes WiiU irrelevant (Buttons go a LONG way), I do not understand the argument of "Well, people need to buy a 360 AND a phone/tablet".

Who at this point DOES NOT have a tablet, let a lone a smartphone? If you own a 360, you can almost no doubt use this new feature out of the box. Plus most phones have ~4" screen, so not too much lost out to the WiiU and it's 5".

Still, no physical buttons, so the uses are quite limited.


True the uses are limited, but it could do a lot of what I saw at E3 assuming that the latency was good enough.  Rayman Legends had the coolest multiplayer adaptation of the Wii U Asymmetrical gameplay but since the person helping Rayman is playing with the Wii U screen as just a touch screen it'd be no problem to do the same thing with Smart Glass.  The only things I think Smart Glass couldn't really replicate to one degree or another are games where you quickly switch between the buttons and the touch screen, like Batman AA AE, but most of those functions just take the place of a pause screen so I don't consider them that meaninful.  

Obviously it doesn't make the tablet irrelevant, but the idea that it can't possibly do what the Wii U tablet does is a bit fillacious since it seems to be able to replicate to one degree or another most of the Wii U functionality we saw at the show.  It more than likely won't end up quite as comfortable or convenient at most of them though.



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