2014 - the Year of the gamepad

[Mummelmann]

DarkNight_DS said:

Fusioncode said:
I was hoping this would be the year they get rid of the gamepad, but nope, Nintendo will continue to support a failed concept.

The gamepad is good.  It's not Wii remote great but it's still good.  Proper use of it especially in local multiplayer would be nice.  No excuse for having all the players on the TV.

The fact that the Gamepad as a concept and controller has yet to be even fully justified after 14-15 months on the market is a pretty sure sign that Nintendo have been kind of lazy though. I don't understand how they could ever expect 3rd parties to bother putting the Gamepad to full use when they're not even making a proper effort themselves.

Unfortunately, I also believe that the concept is highly flawed, for drawing in mass market consumers anyway. In fact; I believe that the Gamepad is the Wii U's biggest problem by far and that they should have continued to evolve the Wii-mote concept instead. They established a 100 million + userbase that adopted the Wii-mote and then basically tossed the thing (having it as an optional extra doesn't count towards much), this was a huge mistake in my opinion.