what would happen if it broke?? I dont like this at all, at least give us the option to buy more than one, what kind of dumb crap is that??

well anyone who doesnt own a WIi already is kinda screwed anyway, you have to buy more controllers, with nunchucks and classic controller. Thats about a 70 dollar investment just for ONE set of controllers

Nintendo could always provide Wii remote and nunchucks for free. The other you already have to buy it anyways.

So, from the perspective of the quality of existence, is what you gain by being right greater than you being wrong?  Are you planning on having a party 5 years down the road if what you are predicting is correct?

Analog sticks are enough to intimidate, and having two is even more complex, not to mention, its not the same as the DS, the DS touchscreem was small and makde it look like a PDA, this looks like an Ipad with a Wiimote and two nunchuks grafted on.

Yes you are seeing it conced, Wii was about competing with all other entertainment, being the center of the entertainment relam of the household, this clearly shows concession, Baseball is on, move to the small screen, and if its a multiplayuer game, well too bad.  The Wii was about controlling the TV space, and if you wanted to do other stuf, you did it through the Wii, not in place of the Wii.

No it doesn;t open more options, it isolates the gamer, and takes gaming away from the center of the house entertainment world , the fact that there is only one Upad proves this

Yes, because the direction the industry and Nintendo with it is moving in is a direction where gaming will stagnate, and wither, the alternative direction thatwas what the Wii and DS represented was a direction in which gaming became a true mainstream media.

Its good to see Nintendo fail with the 3DS, and Wii U, as it will likely mean that there is a sea change in the company and the industry sooner, perhaps tossing out the old fools who currently run the place and replacing them with people who actually listen to the market.

This one i've seen from you before too, and you're really not going to get anyone better. Anyone younger is going to be from "the industry," and naturally be a worse fit because they'll either be young developers with all the bad ideas that come with young developers, or they'll be businessmen who will employ shortsighted moneymaking strategies and dilute the Nintendo we know and love into just another industry player.

Actually buisiness people would probably be the best choice, since they are the ones who actually are less concerned about doing what they want, and actually doing what consumers want, because it will net them the most profit and marketshare, Miyamoto and the restaren't interested in making 2D mario or a Zelda that isnt puzzle filled (heck even the ninty rep said its all about puzzles in SS, *barf*), or sidescrolling Metroid with no weepy Samus, but probably the business people at Nintendo see that the current games aren't doing massive sales and aren't capturing large marketshare, these are the people who are more likely to want to see the games that the market wants, that will sell more.  The problem isn't the business side, its the developers who think they are so imaginative and  creative.

To be a great success in the tech industry you need leadership with vision, and vision only seems to come from the actual product-designers (in this case, the developers), but even then only from the developers who really pioneered the industry in the first place. You see it in Apple with Steve Jobs. In this industry, you also see what happens when the real, hard numbers business-types take over. You get Activision, monster profits, and brand-names ground into the dirt like fine powder, and a company on the whole with a bland and toothless image.

Now if Nintendo could find the *right* businessperson, who could gently correct the company's problems without radically reorienting, then we'd have something, but likely they would find Japanese Kotick

I agree that it is technically impossible to do this with Wii (unless the tablet itself was doing some of the processing), but to me the whole proposition doesn't offer enough for me to actually think about it as a new console experience. It's essentially a Wii with HD graphics and a UDraw that I can play alone with the TV off.

I don't care about HD graphics (in fact I considered SD a facilitator to innovation), and the new system is casting aside features I loved like pointer functionality, split controllers and gamecube b/c.