Mummelmann said:
I'm not. The tablet controller just seems like a bad idea, all it appears to do is add more fuzz and clunk to regular actions in games and I can see it getting really tiresome after a while, not to mention how unwieldy it seems at times.
Then there's online, Nintendo are starting to look a bit silly here, the Wii had almost no online implementation at all and their heads stated that it "wasn't important". Well it is and they realize that now.
Problem is, they're late to the party so all their "amazing" features likely exist in better form already and their whole approach kind of seems like an elderly person trying a smartphone for the first time.
There's also the fact that Nintendo have very few allies in the online gaming and functionality realm so they won't be able to provide anything that the PS4 and Nextbox won't do better
They are also touting HD as a selling point now, trying to make us excited that they release a console that can play HD content roughly six years too late. Their attempt to appeal to more "mature" audiences and developers could also fall flat since they appear to have set themselves up for the same troubles as the 7th generation; the competing consoles have a lot more horsepower (the gap won't be as vast as the Wii and PS360 though) and the WiiU could end up as an obscure and distant choice for multiplats and other 3rd party efforts, especially given their strained relations with developers from way back. Seems kinda like they're trying to be a lot like the competition in many ways.
Bottom line; they're biting off way too much to chew, they're trying to lure in casual tablet and phone "gamers" with their tablet ruse, they want to keep their motion control fans by keeping Wii-mote support and publishing very few titles that actually fully utilize the capability of this rather underappreciated controller and they want the "hardcore" to revel in late ports of games such as Mass Effect III.
They're trying to appease everyone but that won't work, Sony's Move and MS' Kinect should be proof enough of that, as should the Wii's serial flopping "hardcore" 3rd party titles.
And how much will this thing cost anyway? How much will peripherals and games cost? Everyone always thinks; "oh, well, they're Nintendo, they know what they're doing." You know what? I'm kind of getting the impression that they don't sometimes and the WiiU seems like irrefutable proof of it to me.
No, I am not convinced on the WiiU and my belief that it will lag far behind the Wii in lifetime sales stands firm.
They're trying to make the WiiU some kind of Jack of All Trades but might very well end up making it a Jackass instead.
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Well, there are a lot of people, like myself, that don't have a tablet and don't have and HD console. I didn't have an TV capable of playing HD games when the xbox360 and PS3 came out, and only got such a TV a couple of years ago because I couldn't afford it. So the HD isn't "too late" for me. The more I think about it, this system is brilliant. Wii owners are almost as many as PS3 and Xbox360 owners combined. There is some overlap in those groups, but I think there are a lot of people like myself that the Wii U would be perfect for.
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/06/nintendo-wii-us-price-will-pleasantly-surprise-customers/
As far as the price, Reggie at least said that people will be "pleasantly surprised" with the price. I would hope that would mean $299. Given all the factors of the equation, such as competing with the other consoles on price, and competing with tablets on price, I think it would have to be around this price. It is also concievable that they would go even cheaper ($250?), take a small hit on the profits early on in the hopes that they will make up for it when the cost of technology goes down. This would be a proactive move to avoid an embarassing price cut like happened with the 3DS.
And then there are the exclusive IP. Its tough to deny the exclusive IP. I think Retro is working on Metroid Prime 4 (not confirmed). There is an inevitable Zelda game coming and a 3D Mario game coming, as well as mario kart. I'll be ready and waiting for those.
