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archbrix on 20 November 2012
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RolStoppable said:
archbrix said:

You make it sound like Nintendo is catering to 3rd parties with the Gamepad at the expense of their own originality.  How?  By giving it analogue sticks and shoulder buttons?  Those are two things that Nintendo themselves pioneered on console controllers, and the industry is all the better for it.

Should Nintendo have left traditional buttons off of the 3DS altogether? 

How? By making the Wii a thing of the past. Having Wiimote/Nunchuk 2.0 as the standard controller and the Pro Controller optionally (basically the same as it was on the Wii) would have been the way to go.

The 3DS is an evolution of the DS in terms of control inputs, so nothing really out of the ordinary here.

First off, the Wii remote is hardly a thing of the past.  You know as well as I do that it's being prominently featured with WiiU - in fact they are going to have a whole new line of WiiU branded Wii remote plus'.  The main reason that it's not included with WiiU is because many people already have four of them and it would be silly to force extra units on consumers instead of letting them purchase them as needed.

It sounds like you believe that Nintendo should have continued to focus on motion gaming again, saying that the Wiimote/Nunchuk 2.0 should have been the standard.  While you're entitled to your opinion, that sounds an awful lot like the people who hated on the Wii because Nintendo chose a different direction.  The fact that the Gamepad direction could prove to be more beneficial to 3rd parties, however, is not an admission of catering to them, but instead, embracing traditional design in addition to new ideas.  In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with that.  It's not like 3rd parties invented the concept of traditional controls.

Regarding my 3DS analogy, look at it from the perspective of the original DS instead.  Should Nintendo have just made a touch-screen device sans buttons and d-pad, or included those elements, additionally catering to traditional design?  If they had gone with the former, would you have enjoyed NSMB as much?