Have you actually held it in your hand? You might have a point and i do think they should redesign it to be smaller, but when its in your hand its not has daunting as it looks.

It's a tablet.

Anyways, the thing is, Nintendo DOESN'T give us a choice, and that's one thing as a consumer that I value, CHOICE. 

We have a Wii U along with PS3, Xbox 360, 3Ds, Vita etc...  In our opionion, the Game Pad is the Wii U's greatest strength.  We think it's a great controller with a great screen.  Two player games are so much better with no spit screen or screen peeking.  Also, the Game Pad is made for the system.  They communicate with each other exactly how they should.  You will not see any tablet that's not made for the system work nearly as well as the Game Pad does.

No it is not. Tablets are flat. They have processors in them. They're portable outside your house. They're mostly touch based. Its a similar but largely different dynamic.


And Nintendo gives you choice. But they built the device around this core concept. It shows. Just use the thing in your home and you'll understand

Yes i've tried it. It's not bad, cause i'm used to tablets by now, i love may Nexus 7 :D, but it's just not comfortable for playing hours and hours.

Well, maybe i'm too extreme haha!

I like it the way it is. Its not cumbersome to hold. In fact its not much heavier than a normal controller. Fits my hands nicely. usually with normal controllers my hands cramp up from having to squeeze everything so close together.

If Wii U carried the Sony name, many people against it would love it.
If PS4 carried the Nintendo name, it would be garbage

The only difference in the PS4 controller and Wii controller is the size of the touchpad but the smaller one is some how a revolution while the larger is useless. I don't get that at all either. Like an adult can do a lot on that tiny touchpad.

Also tablets do not have buttons or analog sticks. they cant be used a controller the way the Wii U pad is.
Go back 5 years and tablets and phones were useless for gaming on many sites. Now that Wii U combines aspects of both, people want to act like tablets are just as good as any controller with no buttons.
Looking down at the screen kills immersion and will get you killed but grabbing your phone and trying to hold it and the controller at the same time wont cause any problems at all.

Its just more proof that a certain segment will use any excuse to hate a product that doesn't come from their company but will love an inferior idea if their company does it.

Yes what with the pro controller, wii remotes, Classic controllers. it just sucks not having any option other than the Gamepad..../s

I see your knowledge is either lacking or you just want to hate just to be hating

Yes... Lets have All 3 consoles be virtually the same why dont we? :/

Nintendo is always known for doing something out of the ordinary, and sometimes they strike gold and sometimes they dont. That shouldn't mean its bad for them for doing so, lets just wait and see how it turns out

You probably tried the kiosk that has added weight and probably not for hours and hours either. Could be wrong but I just dont see how anyone can make that claim if they tried it in someones home. Unless you had your mind made up long before you ever touched it

Your tone doesn't give me the impressin like you'd be open to hear anything different that what you're already telling yourself, but i'll give it a try;

I haven't tried it in a shop, since i haven't seen one yet, live in Holland. I tried at the house of a friend who goes gaga overy everything Nintendo. I didn't hate it or anything, i just didn't like it that much. And no, i wasn't sure of anything.

Actually i was very excited to try it as i had just seen the unboxing video by Iwata and the way he handled it, made it look very elegant to me. I was hyped i guess. But i just discovered that it's not a console for me, and no not just from that one time.

I might even get it one day lol. It's just that the tablet controller is the least appealing feature of the console in my opinion.