Nintendo Co Ltd. (NTDOY)Nintendo's New Console Is "Wii U"IGN - June 7, 2011
Submitted by TheSmilkman (101)
at 10:25AM PST on June 7, 2011
The announcement came during this morning's pre-E3 press conference in Los Angeles, along with confirmation of many of the rumors that have surrounded the machine leading up to today's show -- like the innovative new tablet controller. Nintendo gave us a hands-on preview with the system in advance of today's presser, so be sure to check out all of our impressions.
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Here Here, let's see the Wii for what it is. It's an HD upgrade with tablet-like gimick.
Nintendo is trying to pull a fast one, when we could all be using DS as the tablet controller, by offering useless HD on the tablet.
It's already been established that only one tablet controller can be used per system negating a lot of the possibilities for this controller. Nintendo really missed the boat, because private Madden hot route/play planning would have been a system seller.
How will developers deal with this multiplayer limitation? The tablet will be relegated to 1p HUD status for most ports.
Sony has the right idea with Vita, but they are such a mess right now I don't even think they'll be able to pull off a cost effective integrated console->portable stack and I had high hopes for them with the PSP.
Now I'm just disgusted by the direction the industry has taken.
Mark my words, this is 1983 all over again.