I could just as well warn YOU of a report, for an ACTUAL threat in response to ASKING if you were a hypocrite.

On your original topic, yes games like Crystal chronicles were highly criticised for gameplay over a separately purchased handheld.

That was the GBA. Could you imagine the backlash if that occured with a less popular handheld?

i think that sums up the wiiU very well.  ..especially online enabled vita games as vita has a touch screen.  wiiU doesn't do anything online can't do in terms of ayschronous gameplay.  i remember people showing nintendo lands luigi's mansion gameplay as an example of something the wiiU can uniquely do but fundamentally it's the same gameplay as uncharted 3's "marked man" (or whatever the relavent mode is called in any other online multiplayer game).

games like zombie U may feel good with the "survival pack" but it's not anymore unique then say dead space's hud.  it may feel different/good having the second screen but the gameplay isn't unique.

Not only have I seen it in action, I'm well aware of Sony and Galkai's efforts to "reduce the amount of latency as much as possible". However, given it's across the TCP protocol, there's only so much you can do before the underlying structure becomes the burden.

Why do you think Nintendo went with propietary technology on this?

ZombiU would have no where near the same intensity without the dual screen usage.

I thought this was going to be another power comparison thread, thank you for not going down that route.

Amen. You don't realize how big of a deal it is until you play the game. The demo alone messed me up so bad that I'm too much of a wuss to buy the real game.

That would be extremely uncomfortable.

Let's wait and see. I keep hearing X could be a game that is unable to be duplicated on current gen without significant downgrades. I am neither a proponent or an opponent of this argument, but I am willing to wait and see and make my own judgement when it launches.

I'm a little confused about your OP, Joe. Is it just to prove that no game idea necessitates the Gamepad? That may be true, but the GamePad allows a lot of cool functions: five-player local multiplayer, asymmetrical multiplayer, off-screen play, plus a bunch of other features that haven't been presented yet.

But, again, the OP is strange to me. Super Mario 64 doesn't NEED an analog stick, but it sure makes the game a whole lot better.

Someone didn't read the OP.