PSA: The Wii U GamePad is NOT a tablet controller

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lilbroex said:

TWRoO said:
This is dumb... sure tablet devices are all multi-touch and buttonless now... but there have been tablet computers for years before the iPad with single-touch screens and additional buttons (though not the same kind of buttons the UPad has, but that's because a computer has different needs to a game console)

The word tablet (as with "pad") is in use because of it's general size and shape as well as the way you hold it to use it, which is similar to how ancient stone or wax tablets were used. It has nothing to do with the technology involved.

The Upad is no more a tablet than the NDS.

That's like saying the iPad is no more a tablet than the iPod Touch.

I believe size has a lot to do with it.