I appreciate the thoroughness of this review and how logical he tried to be, but I just can't agree with so many of the things he said. It's clear he's not really a gamer.
At certain points it's clear that he wants this to be more of an ipad that can connect to the television. One comment, he said that the resistive touch screen is awful, which honestly makes me think he's probably never held a DS in his life...
Also, this whole paragraph was the most bizarre thing I've read - I don't think any gamer would say this!!
Why not make a portable console that is totally self-sufficient, but becomes something like the Wii U when it's plugged in or connected to your TV? It could be a single-screen device like the Vita, or a dual-screen device like the Wii U. Devices like the iPad, Nexus 7, and PlayStation Vita are proving that good graphics can come in small packages, and it’d be a smart direction for Nintendo to go as well. Even if the console itself were smaller (and didn’t have that cumbersome brick), it would be something you could toss into a suitcase or even a backpack. Unfortunately, though, that's just not what the Wii U is. I loved playing New Super Mario Bros. U in bed while the console whirred outside in my living room, but I wish it weren’t such a limited use case.
Nintendo does have an investment in portable gameplay. It's called a 3DS! And even if he didn't know that, surely, he's heard of gameboy...
And Vita's weakness vs. the Wii U is that the connection of PS3 + Vita is not a requirement, but an add on.
There's also some other weird comments about how the console is Godawful ugly, which is ridiculous compared to other consoles... And the criticism about the build quality of the gamepad is also strange. This is a home console, not an ipad... Sigh.
