Post by monkeyking on Jun 12, 2011 8:57:38 GMT -5
It seems like 2005 all over again, when Sony though that "they had this figured out" and that people would play $600 knowing PlayStation was the top of the heap.
This year Nintendo walked out thinking, "Man, we crushed-it over the last five years, and now we're just going to crush again. People will flip their lids when they see what Wii U w/ Tablet might do!"
Don't get me wrong I think Nintendo has something there worthy of this half-bump reset of hardware, but I don't think they showed it off well at all. In fact I rather suspect they were not nearly ready enough, so that is what hurt them....they needed six more months so that games could have been shown alpha not just tech demos. They needed to show off a new standard joypad that was "Dual-Shocky-360-Triggery", so that core gamers would see they would have a GREAT joypad for core games.
A joypad being shown off and packed in the box will be the litmus test for me. The tablet is nice for casual games and a few core games, but if Nintendo wants to lure core gamers & games they need to show off a joypad during next e3. If they try to pass off the tablet as the only joypad that is ever shown on stage in peoples hands and the only one in the box they are deluded.
I don't see the risk in showing off a joypad. Nintendo might think showing one and providing one weakens the message of the TABLET, but the reality is people are smart. What the tablet does well it will do well, and a joypad won't wreck that.....but what a tablet does poorly will be very clear without a joypad there to take off the heat. Its like the Atari 2600 the paddles in the box didn't make the one button joystick look dumb, but rather both options being in the box made the WHOLE system better.
This year Nintendo walked out thinking, "Man, we crushed-it over the last five years, and now we're just going to crush again. People will flip their lids when they see what Wii U w/ Tablet might do!"
Don't get me wrong I think Nintendo has something there worthy of this half-bump reset of hardware, but I don't think they showed it off well at all. In fact I rather suspect they were not nearly ready enough, so that is what hurt them....they needed six more months so that games could have been shown alpha not just tech demos. They needed to show off a new standard joypad that was "Dual-Shocky-360-Triggery", so that core gamers would see they would have a GREAT joypad for core games.
A joypad being shown off and packed in the box will be the litmus test for me. The tablet is nice for casual games and a few core games, but if Nintendo wants to lure core gamers & games they need to show off a joypad during next e3. If they try to pass off the tablet as the only joypad that is ever shown on stage in peoples hands and the only one in the box they are deluded.
I don't see the risk in showing off a joypad. Nintendo might think showing one and providing one weakens the message of the TABLET, but the reality is people are smart. What the tablet does well it will do well, and a joypad won't wreck that.....but what a tablet does poorly will be very clear without a joypad there to take off the heat. Its like the Atari 2600 the paddles in the box didn't make the one button joystick look dumb, but rather both options being in the box made the WHOLE system better.