Didnt they say that you have to be in the house to receive the info from the actual console?? This leads me to believe that it will not be portable, hell I think Iwata said himself that was the case. Even if there were some things you can run on the Wii U pad itself I imagine it would be so basic that it would be irrelevant IMHO

Mr. Iwata and Reggie both said you have to be near the Wii U to download/play games on the controller. That means if my Wii U is in the Living Room I can go to my room and close the door and it should work. They haven't announced if you can go outside and still use it though, I don't think.

That means its not portable, not saying that their is anything wrong with that BTW

Of course you had to throw that at the end of the sentence. NGC had several good games, can't talk about the N64 though. Was there any 2D Mario... Ahhh... ;)

I agree with most of what you said.  

Except this (bolded) ; the wording is very odd.

Thank You!

Woh! Rol said "Sorry" to me? The world must be coming to an end! ;) (jk)

Yep. I believe that the people who bought a Gameboy for Tetris were all herded into deathcamps by hardcore gamers and never heard from again. That is why something like the app store from iTunes is of no threat to the current Nintendo game market.

pretty much all of them was worth well over $2 to me.  in reality, i've put more time in to quite a few of my iphone games then any of my ds games including quality titles like NSMB.

you're just deflecting 'cause you don't want to listen to things you don't want to hear.  most of my DS collection i've got on my iphone either in direct IP or damn equivalent games.   the only thing that i don't find as good on my iphone as on my ds is the games that has gameplay that really requires a d-pad/analog to play well.  things like NSMB, sonic rush, or castlevania.

you're posting the spending habits of DS owners as if that was actually proof of a demand for a "higher quality games" when for as long as i've known you you've been taking the exact opposite stance...that nintendo took the "blue ocean" and created an audience where there was none.  the DS and wii got such fantastic GenOverGen results by creating new experiences not by grabbing the attention of those looking for games of higher quality.

Very, very well said. I'll just add a precision. The pick-up-and-play games that made the DS the success it was were of course of Nintendo's finest quality. Only, they were in a category of usually low quality given their cheap requirements (which lured noob or inexperienced or ill-financed devs).

That's where they hit the gold. But with the advent of the AppStore and its evolution, Nintendo won't be able to count on that for too long without the mitigations they described, and likely more.

@Oni, I was referring to mobile/social/tablet stealing marketshare from Wii U and DS, and not vice versa. You keep confusing them it's annoying. Despite usually always having great convo with you, you've missed the marked almost 3 times this far.

@Rol. I am side by side with you on most all things, but on these issues (Mario, Mobile) I am your starkest shadow. Consider me to challenge you to the bone on these, and you'll come to appreciate our moments of alliance.