When will a game use two Wii U Gamepads?

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oniyide said:
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their not selling two pads because of confusion and basically the SYSTEM itself cannot support two.

Wrong:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/06/14/fils-aime-wii-u-can-support-two-controllers

 

If it could they would have had games supporting it already.

The current BOM of the Gamepad would probably make the cost of buying the console and an extra controller close to $500 for the consumer. It would make sense to wait until the cost comes down on the Gamepad (not to mention the console) before introducing games that take advantage of this setup.

 

Mario Kart8 is not gonna support nothing, its coming out too soon for Ninty to have to do anything about it.

Agreed.

 

I dont even think a firmware update could deal with this, it would have to massive.

You're not thinking outside the box. Streaming a full, graphic-intensive game to two Gamepads while simultaneously displaying on the TV is almost certainly not in the cards. But consider simpler tasks instead, like two users play calling in Madden or a WiiU Party sequel with something simple being displayed on the Gamepads independent of the full game which is displayed only on the TV. It's not about trying to display a full game multiple times, but using the screen and its functionality in unique, simpler ways - something that would most often be akin to "casual games"; and at the moment the entry price of this functionality is prohibitively expensive for that market.