Nintendo made the WiiU gamepad because they didnt have a better idea - opinion

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Aquietguy said:

Mensrea said:
Yeah, it's definitely odd.

With the Wii, they had Super Mario Galaxy right about a year after. It used the Wii remote very well, but didn't feel gimmicky.

Also Wii sports was at launch.

With the Wii U it's like: "Um... you can play games on the gamepad, but it will look a lot worse....we don't know.."

Ubisoft was able to make ZombiU, and they used the gamepad well, but honestly, I don't see what uses the gamepad has other than inventory management. :/

You must not be a very creative person then because I can think of several inovative ways off the top of my head of how the pad can be used to improve game play. Inventory management it's self is worth it.

People are not going to pay $350 to play PS3 style games with more convienant "inventory management".

Wiimote was a earth shattering concept for 2006 that got people off the couch and opened up the experience to non-gamers. That's a revolution.

Wii U tablet has almost no sales catchet, this is not something that excites the consumer in this day and age. It's an oversized DS bottom half.