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snyps on 30 July 2013
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oniyide said:
snyps said:
oniyide said:
snyps said:



You're wrong. Touchscreen controller's are the future of gaming. The masses haven't realized it yet. When the right app comes they will. We all know it's true. Because, unlike the wii remote, the touchscreen doesn't interfere with normal dual analog controller functions. The touchscreen adds, it doesn't subtract. It builds on a solid foundation and will never disappear.


It's a good thing because they've evolved while others are stagnant in that regard. And for me the right application that shows off the need of a touch screen is already here. I'm talking about the navigation of the OS, web interface, menu systems, and the universal remote. Xbox one is attempting to solve this navigation dilemma by adding voice recognition and hand gestures. Kudos to them. Sony is adding a touch pad. Seriously, their attempts FAIL in comparison to touchscreen navigation. Nothing is simpler.

Future if you say so. Masses havent realized it? Just like they havent realized with the 3d in 3ds? still waiting for that. THe touchscreen does add, but you can only use one controller per system so it some ways it subtracts, they could always rectify this. It wont disappear just like motion controls didnt. doesnt mean it wont be put on back burner.

You keep waiting for the right app though, there is nothing coming out at least this year that is going to show it off to the masses. Nothing that Ninty has comng soon even uses the tablet alot.



Have you played Pikmin 3:
The Wonderful 101
Donkey Kong CR: Tropical Freeze
Super Mario 3D World
Sonic Lost World
Mario Kart 8
Bayonetta 2
Yoshi's New Island or
Monolith's X ????

If not, aren't you negatively speculating? It's not the sme as 3D in 3ds. One is a functional enhancement for simplifying a user experience. I know what you meant by that and I understand the connection. Clearly the 3Ds is kicking butt so it's doing something right. On top of a game library and a cheap price, it offer's a feature only found on Nintendo.


yes the 3ds is kicking butt, but dont for a second kid yourself and say its because of 3d its kicking butt DESPITE it, it kicked butt because games came AND it got a price cut. Which is the same reasons why WIi U will do better. If people really cared for the 3d that thing would have been doing much better from the start and Ninty wouldnt have to cut its price so soon. 

Im not negatively speculating anything all im saying is that besides maybe Pikmin 3(not a big franchise anyway) and X(which we know nothing about) none of those games are most likely going to use the pad in a significant, not in way that will get people who werent going to buy those games interested. I dont know this for 100% sure, just like you dont know if the WII u pad will get its killer app. But im 90% sure judging by Ninty's own history, outside of the WIi series most of their wii games didnt use the wiimote in any significant way. Hell NSMBU is a 2d plat that doesnt use the pad in any significant way, and id bet it will be the same for the other games in that genre.

W101 up in the air, but thats gonna move little consoles anyway, so lets not kid ourselves their.

Mario 3d land, the one on 3ds didnt use the 2nd screen in any big way i dont see that changing for the WII u version especially since it seems to be made even faster than the 3ds one.

sonic lost world same

MK8 i think they should go back to that wheel sure it was broken but hell people loved it.

X? thats gonna be a JRPG which doesnt have a massive fanbase in the US anyway unless your called Final Fantasy. Again it doesnt matter if Ninty only has that feature its not helping it now, so I dont see how it will help them in the future.

Also im not saying those games wont sell, im saying they will sell despite it, because people want to play the next iteration of those series not because it has a gamepad. Hell thats why i want to play them.



There have been systems in the past that brought games and price cuts that still got crushed by systems offering all the same features plus some. So if 3Ds had no 3D, and Wii U had no touchscreen. What would it have? Compare 3Ds and Wii U to their competition pretending they had no exclusive features. Would the 3Ds have built a nice library by being a dualscreen psp ? Would the Wii U take on next gen by being a 1080p 60fps ps360? Nintendo doesn't have a car business on the side, or w/e, to fund losses like mega-corps sony and ms. They must rely on creativity not supercomputing.


The tablet interface is the future, nothing this simple is going on the back burner. Pikmin 3 may prove it, maybe X. Nobody knows. Maybe as a rear view mirror in an online MK. We'll see. You mentioned a touchscreen being single player for now, but that doesnt stop anyone from playing multiplayer on traditional dual analog controls. There's no question that only positives come from having a touchscreen.