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dahuman on 23 September 2012
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Mazty said:
dahuman said:
@Mazty,
I see your point and all, but you are kinda forgetting that Wii U controller, which is not cheap, that thing sold by itself is estimated to be 150USD(more like 175USD in Japan, but in the US things are cheaper when it comes to electronics.) That thing is pretty full fledged as a controller, you are talking about motion control, camera, touch screen, dual analog, ton of buttons, light weight, low latency and all that. You are not paying 300 dollars for the GPU by itself lol, when all the parts get combined together, I don't think Nintendo is making that much profit on the console at all while able to deliver us good content and new gimmicks to play with. Yeah I called it a gimmick, but that's why I buy things sometimes, awesome gimmicks, though don't care much for stupid ones.

I've also seen the Wii U in person, that thing is really slick and small, the controller very comfortable, Moore's law absolutely applies here, it's a very small form factor at that performance, it's actually quiet impressive.

Well the controller is a two sided sword. On one side, yet it means you are getting more then just the console, but on the other side it means the hardware of the console will be stretched a lot if it would be weakish just on its own, let alone having to support the pad as well. 

Impressive it may be, but a good gaming console? I shall have to wait and see. 

I really liked it when I played on it, and I was really surprised at how light the Wii U Pad is just like the press was. It's definitely not my PC by a long shot when comparing power, no console ever can compete with PCs, but I can see people having a good time on it for sure. I also like how they give you the ability to just use an external HDD for everything, it's a really smart design since it lowers your console internal power requirements and has less moving parts thus reducing a lot of heat production, and also makes it smaller. It's a really well designed hardware that's not "as" locked down when you take all that into account. I mean shit, graphics like that for 75W? That's pretty fucking insane.