Smear-Gel said:
teigaga said:
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Smash and MK8 both use it for Amiibo, which is reportedly selling well. I think people forget that the Gamepad can and is used in many, smallers ways. Also off tv play wich is always a plus.
I do agree that asymetric gameplay is both awesome and woefully underused though.
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The people who want Amiibo can buy the more pricey gamepad bundled wii U then :)
Bundle the gamepad with some amiibo's and a revelant game aswell. Its an expensive peripheral which isn't needed, I say let gamers decide and benefit in the process with much higher hardware and software sales. I get Nintendo pushing it at first similar to wii remote, trying to make sure developers use it but no one is really, nintendo included. The general public have already expressed they have no interest in it, all peripherals which are worth their weight will sell as a standalone purchase, so I don't see the problem.
Its strange but suddenly it seems blatantly obvious to me, its no different from forcing Kinect on people or forcing PSVita on PS4 owners.
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1) Abandoning the hardware= we have no faith in this product. Look at Kinect. You'd need a time machine though because we havent heard anything about it since.
2) Separating them will make both combined more expensive, wont they? People will like that less.
3) We are even less likely to get games with the gamepad now. Especially from 3rd party developers (particularly indies, who would rather save money)
4) Every single game announced next year for Wii U has gamepad uses outside of Off TV Play. Getting rid of the Gamepad right before that would be a terrible idea.
5) I think justifying the gamepad would be better than getting rid of it.
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1) We're 2 years in, I think we're well past the point of anyone caring tbh. If anything their actions the last 2 years have shown they have no faith in it, a few games coming in the 2nd hald of 2015 aren't gonna to massively change peoples perceptions.
2) They wouldn't get rid of the existing delux bundle, they would just incorporate a cheaper one without the Gamepad. Buying both seperately would be more expensive but thats case for literally every bundle ever.
3) I know, but up until now Nintendo hasn't made an effort to give them to you anyway, and do indies use the control much outside of offscreen play? No reason why they can't support the peripheral regardless of whether its mandatory or not. Microsoft gave the original kinect fine support and the peripheral sold over 20m, probably more Wii U's then Ninetndo will ever sell. Something doesn't need to be bundle to serve as a system selling point.
4) Nintendo are masters of supporting multiple controllers, I know that pretty much all of the games announced could work the other controller schemes just like Pikmin 3 and almost every other game thus far. There may be exceptions, but thats why you bundle the thing with games that actually use it. Again if Nintendo fufils ita ambitions
5) Better for who and from what perspective? In my opinion not their sales...
