because it gives oprtunities to make better software, duh.

why 2 screens on ds? why motion controls on wii? seriously, what a silly thread.

1) Ok, so where is the better software? Or at least the software that shows off the Gamepads neccessity?

2)Wii's flagship game showed the Wii Remote to be a game changer. There was excitement for the future software to come. And how difficult was it to play a fps with DA after IR Pointer?

Just because they got things right with DS/Wii does not mean every concept or idea they come up with is a good one. Heck, it took them 3 years, but they seem to see basing a handheld around 3D output wasn't the best idea and have the 2DS as a result. Hopefully they can do something with the Wii U in a similar fashion. Because what they are doing now ain't working.

It can be so much more, its got utility out the wazoo with what a creative mind can accomplish.

3d wasnt gameplay changing for 3ds.

gamepad's necessity? there is no necessity, just like many things on controllers aren't necessary per se, but they all add possibilities, right?

nintendoland, zombi u, the original rayman legends concept, the upcoming wii party U. those games couldn't be reproduced without the gamepad.

again, it's not about necessity, it's about what it can add. a developer cn ignore it, build the whole game around the second screen only, or mix tv and pad screen, the possibilities are there.

Every game uses the touchscreen in some way. It makes a basic good game into a basic good game with better GUI.

Every Nintendo console to date launched with a system defining game in the eyes of the public, thats why the WiiU has struggled .

But seriously, when you're worse than NeoGaf is atm you have serious problems VGChartz.

This thread is great. It's the equivalent of asking, "Why do we need iPad when we have netbooks?"

The differing hardware enables creativity in the software that can be produced, hence reasoning for the gamepad.

I find the Pac-Man Vs./Mario Chase formula of asymmetric gaming is the only one that's really all that fun. Otherwise the Wii U tablet is basically the same ol' "your map/hub is on your controller!" type thing that doesn't wow anyone. 

But you can only make a limited amount of game concepts based on that "I can't see player 2/3/4!" idea.

The truth is too Pac-Man VS. did nothing for the GameCube, Nintendo probably should've known better than to think that same idea repackaged for 2012 would some how go differently.

Different for its own sake isn't the answer.  Different for the sake of being better, is the answer.