oniyide said:
archbrix said:
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Forget Reggie's last name. I messed up, but my point stands. i never trusted anything his says unless it comes from the mouth of someone who has actually involved the making of the system...and even then.
Again, that's your prerogative. I guess time will tell if he was lying or not.
No what i meant by the time they get to that point if they even do, it will not be new and it wont have much of an impact. Cause people might have gotten tired of waiting.
Only a vast minority of people (at the moment anyway) are basing their WiiU purchase on the promise of two-gamepad play, so they're not really waiting to begin with.
SO its too expensive to sell on its own, fair enough. Thats no excuse to not have the system itself utilize two ESPECIALLY if someone who owns a WIi U can just take the tablet to a friend's house and use it their. Its not a luxury its common sense, I can take my PS3 controller and Wiimote and use it on my friends PS3 or Wii why cant I do that with the gamepad? makes no sense, not even use the functions just use it as an actually controller, IMHO this sends the wrong message.
The problem is that Nintendo would be designing features in the game with the assumption that either the buyer has a friend that also has a WiiU or doesn't mind spending an additional $150 for these features just to support two players.
To put it into perspective, the way Nintendoland launched you can spend the same amount of money for four Wii Remotes and have a total of five players as opposed to one additional Gamepad for only two players for the same price.
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i think you are really underestimating the value of a local multiplayer experience. Imagine if teh original Wii could only use ONE wiimote, i dont think the Wii would have done nearly as well. BUt then again you cant be to sure its NOT having an effect on sales, but neither can I.
Yes you can just get four wiimotes, then whats the point? Why not just stick to Wii? Im sure that is question that alot of people are asking and id bet alot of them are doing just that.
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Nintendo realizes the value of local multiplayer more than probably any other company and a prime example of this is that Nintendoland supports up to five players via Wii remotes. The only restriction is that the WiiU's Gamepad functionality is limited to only one at the moment, but as I already stated, it's prohibitively expensive to do presently, so I've already addressed that.
As for your last paragraph, that's not a valid point at all because you could ask that same question for any new game system. Why not just stick to PS3 instead of buying a PS4? The answer is the same: It's a whole new console with new software... and WiiU is just as big of a jump over the Wii in power and features as PS4 is over PS3.
