Taking onboard several pieces of advice, I went to sleep, awakened and remembered E3. Only this time, it wasn't painful or annoyingly depressing- just funny.
The fact that Nintendo can make a controller and confuse people with 1) Not revealing Pikmin 3 and 2) Not even show the bleddy console in the first place.
This was so severe, up to the point that one of the people I asked actually thought the Wii U was both the amalgamated controller and console in one.
The controller seems to divide opinion- 50/50, in fact, it's a bit like
. You either think it is totally brilliant, or incredibly vomit-inducingly bad. There really wasn't any leeway with the people I quizzed. Most notably, one said "I will go to the depths of hell before I see the Wii U become a revolutionary controller,"!
You see, my opinion is that the console looks...amazing. It is sleek, and beautiful. It definitely does HD, and looks amazing. The controller? Looks like a UDraw Tablet with the tablet component replaced with a screen!
I do hope that when Nintendo release the console, it is 100% backwards compatible with Wii Remote Plus-es, and Classic Controllers.
Nintendo's decision puzzles me. The We-You mentality, and Iwata talking about "Wider" and "Deeper" gameplay makes no sense. Nintendo have obviously been on the edge of innovation- touchscreens, motion sensing, now 3D. But this puzzling "We and You" approach makes no sense. All I can see is a rather nice touchscreen with buttons.
I will certainly be trading in my Wii for a Wii U, but only if it supports other controllers in exactly the same way, so I don't need to shell out for this controller, which I'm obviously hating upon now, but I feel it is justified.
Oh, and about yesterday's incredibly embarrassing blog post- I apologise for my naïvety- it was right after E3, and very annoying for me.
The fact that Nintendo can make a controller and confuse people with 1) Not revealing Pikmin 3 and 2) Not even show the bleddy console in the first place.
This was so severe, up to the point that one of the people I asked actually thought the Wii U was both the amalgamated controller and console in one.
The controller seems to divide opinion- 50/50, in fact, it's a bit like
You see, my opinion is that the console looks...amazing. It is sleek, and beautiful. It definitely does HD, and looks amazing. The controller? Looks like a UDraw Tablet with the tablet component replaced with a screen!
I do hope that when Nintendo release the console, it is 100% backwards compatible with Wii Remote Plus-es, and Classic Controllers.
Nintendo's decision puzzles me. The We-You mentality, and Iwata talking about "Wider" and "Deeper" gameplay makes no sense. Nintendo have obviously been on the edge of innovation- touchscreens, motion sensing, now 3D. But this puzzling "We and You" approach makes no sense. All I can see is a rather nice touchscreen with buttons.
I will certainly be trading in my Wii for a Wii U, but only if it supports other controllers in exactly the same way, so I don't need to shell out for this controller, which I'm obviously hating upon now, but I feel it is justified.
Oh, and about yesterday's incredibly embarrassing blog post- I apologise for my naïvety- it was right after E3, and very annoying for me.