| the_dengle said: I definitely don't see anyone in that vid playing an XBox game through SmartGlass. Seriously, the GamePad is not a tablet. It may look like a tablet. It may be used similarly to a tablet in certain circumstances. But it does not walk like a duck OR quack like a duck. The GamePad vs tablet debate has been retread so many times it confounds me how the difference could still elude someone who hangs around video game forums. Go check out some previews, because journalists have covered this well enough that I won't waste my time explaining it. Comparing Nintendo Land to Wii Sports on the basis of a single event (E3 2006, by the way) is ludicrous. The console hasn't even been released yet, but I'll remind you that the deluxe bundle including Nintendo Land sold out almost immediately upon being available for pre-order. |
See other post.
Anyway early pre-orders don't indicate continual success of the platform. The total interest based for instance on Google search results are significantly less than before the release of the Wii:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=wii%2C%20Wii%20u&cmpt=q
They don't need to convince the first 5M people to buy the console, they need to convince the next 40 million or so between now and 2015. They have a strong brand but overall the Wii has tanked in comparison to other leading consoles and even other consoles in this generation, however that doesn't mean much in the overall scheme as we know too little.
Tease.
