Wii U as a Tablet

[burninmylight]

VanceIX said:

burninmylight said:

 

Bolded: Could you do me a favor and acknowledge that I recognized this as an issue in my post? I pretty much said the same thing, so I don't understand why you feel the need to remind me. Nothing is more frustrating than when someone replies to you and feels the need to tell you what you just said.

I use the GamePad in my bedroom while the console sits in the living room, 20 feet away and through a wall, all the time. I also play Toki Tori while taking a shit. Everyone's mileage is different.

Like I said, the GamePad does enough for what I need for it, and for what I would want any young children to have for it. I am in no way saying it can do everything an actual tablet can. I'm saying that it can serve many of the most basic functions of a tablet: browsing the Web, streaming video and playing games. That's what Nintendo should be promoting.

Yes, my point was that not only can it not leave the house (like you mentioned), but it can't leave the room either (which you didn't).

Also, a tablet does all of the things you mentioned a thousand times better. Browsing the web on a resistive touch screen? Sreaming videos onto a tablet when you are in the same room as your TV? Playin games, sure, but tablets cater to a different type of game preference, a much more casual one.

A tablet does what it does better. We've established that a million times over, and no one is arguing against that. I would hope a tablet does a better job: a tablet is a tablet first, the GamePad is a console controller first and a tablet alternative second.

Assuming "casual" means simple, there are plenty of casual games available on the Wii U eShop.

I don't understand why everyone thinks that there is no value in the GamePad at all, just because it can't do everything a tablet does or do it as well. My Volkswagen Golf can't compete with a Ferrari; should I stop driving it and save up for a better car? My Wii U can't compete with the PS4 or X1 on a graphical level; should I stop playing it? When I go to the gym, I can't bench as much as the roided up guy in the Affliction tanktop; should my girl leave me for him? When I go down to the court and jump in a pick up game, I never get picked first; does this mean I can't help my team win?

I know full well my Wii U can't hold a candle to a bona fide tablet. However, it already does everything I need out of a tablet, so why go spend a few hundred dollars on bases that are already covered? It's like everyone has this all-or-nothing mentality in which everything that is not the best at what it can do is automatically useless at doing those things.