Systems of prominent manufacturers that failed because of their gimmicky controllers and led to an exit from the market

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JRPGfan on 22 April 2015

Wii U gamepad not a option?
I am dissapoint...

Weird nintendo can go from genius design with Wii Nunchucks (for shooters, and games like Mario Galaxy, where you point at the screen).....

to something like the silly gamepad.

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Ultrashroomz on 22 April 2015

The lack of anything Nintendo is rather disturbing.

"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

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PenguinZ on 22 April 2015

Ultrashroomz said:
The lack of anything Nintendo is rather disturbing.

When did Nintendo ever failed due to a gimmicky controller?

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Ultrashroomz on 22 April 2015

PenguinZ said:

Ultrashroomz said:
The lack of anything Nintendo is rather disturbing.

When did Nintendo ever failed due to a gimmicky controller?

While I'm not saying the console completely failed, the Wii U isn't doing as good as Nintendo's other consoles, and I believe that the tablet controller is partially to blame.

"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

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Cloudman on 22 April 2015

: ( I liked the Dreamcast controller and the VMU... I had no issues using it back in the day. How do you also say the controller is an abomination without listing why? I have no reason to believe why that is so...

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PenguinZ on 22 April 2015

Ultrashroomz said:

PenguinZ said:

Ultrashroomz said:
The lack of anything Nintendo is rather disturbing.

When did Nintendo ever failed due to a gimmicky controller?

While I'm not saying the console completely failed, the Wii U isn't doing as good as Nintendo's other consoles, and I believe that the tablet controller is partially to blame.

Oh no, the Wii U did completely fail. I'd considerit one of Nintendo's bigger failures too, but I hardly put much blame into the controller they went with. There's far greater factors that contributed to the failure you see today.

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JazzB1987 on 22 April 2015

can we finally stop using the word gimmick when it comes to controllers?

A new type of controller is less of a gimmick than 4x the horse power to give a rock 4x the number of polygons.
Visual improvement is far more a gimmick than 10 analog sticks or 12 shoulder buttons would ever be