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cunger on 26 November 2012
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Andrespetmonkey said:
cunger said:
Andrespetmonkey said:

If "innovation" means another type of controller I don't really care. It's cool, but I don't see how it makes anything more fun. I'd rather just have an altered version on the controller I already love and then have some peripherals that experiment a little more.

In this day and age software probably counts for more anyway (OS and its features, UI etc.).


It's not about a controller tha makes things more fun so much as it is about a controller that allows you to play your games more often. It's nice having a console that I can play games on even when the TV is being used for other purposes. It means I can have the console in the living room rather than in my bedroom where my ps4 will go. That alone is innovative. If anything else comes of the controller that is only icing on something that is already a cake.

That sounds cool, but I imagine I'd hardly ever use it. It's just not a big deal. And if somebody bothers you about using the TV while you game so much then surely you'll just move your set-up somewhere else. 

Don't most people have multiple TVs anyway? Isn't playing on the TV preferable? The range also sounds like an issue... I've heard something like 20 feet from Ninty but less than half that from others (if it is indeed 20 feet than that's fine). 

I don't mean to sound like a downer, I know there are positives to the Gamepad and I know it has potential, but it doesn't feel nearly as significant as the Wiimote was for example. 

It's true that it's not as much of a game changer to gameplay as the wii remote was. But I think many gamers felt that the wii was a change to gameplay that they didn't want. Nintendo has a more core friendly system this time..

There is a lot the system can do that you can't do on other systems but I'm not sure how innovative these features are since Nintendo has done them before on the ds to a great degree of success. It's innovative to do these things in a console I guess. I could list them but it would probably just be easier for you to google some top ds reviews and see what is being done.

IMO, this is going to be a games focused system rather than a gimick focused system. If you love your games you can play your games right away when the main tv is being used. No you don't have to move the system across the house when you just want to boot up a game and play. That would be lame. Microsoft consoles you don't want to touch let alone move rooms they reside in for fear of RROD.

The fact is that the system is going to do well.  Nintendo only shoots for 5 to 6 year cylce anyways and should be coming out with their next system when the nextbox and ps4 are still 3/4 year away from their next system. Nintendo has a great window of opportunity to provide a unique feature set, a mainstream pricepoint, and the best first party games they've ever been able to make.

It's Nextbox and PS4 i'm more concerned about right simply because they haven't proven anything to me. Nintendo has proven that they can make a gorgoes looking Pikmin and I know i've got many great first party games to look forward to. I'm not convinced that next gen graphics will blow me away like previous generations have. The Unreal 4 engine demo sure didn't blow me away...  The ball is in their court right now and I'm expecting to be blown away.