With regards to the Gamepad, I also don’t think it helps that the Wii U almost seems to support too many controller, each with their own feel and features. It was one thing when the Playstation moved from its standard controller to the dual shock- it’s entirely something else to have a system use a Wii Remote (plus), the more “traditional” pro controller, AND a Gamepad with a screen. I imagine the prospect of that alone creates a nightmare for the in-house developers, let alone third parties.

@Both: Nintendo’s systems tend to ask more creatively of the developer for their product to be a success. This, from what I can see, leads the Nintendo home console platforms to have fewer releases but the big successes tend to be among the best games ever made. Unfortunately, since Nintendo is the one designing this creative challenge, it tends to fall on them to exemplify their hardware. And in most cases the third parties never quite get the console to perform as well as the folks at Nintendo who made it.

I believe Miyamoto said that specific ideas they have for games can heavily influence how they design their consoles. This kind of leaves third parties at a distinct disadvantage when designing a game on the console that Mario and Zelda titles will also appear on.

Most of the evidence so far points to it being a big joke and lame mistake, though. Nintendo are trying (not too hard) to fill it with some software that could have been on Wii. I don’t believe they have any more magical aces up their sleeves than Square Enix does. But then again, I sort of wrote them both off long ago, and they have done good stuff since then. For instance, I thought N wasn’t gonna make a good game again after Twilight Princess sucked: “it’s all downhill.” But later I bought a Wii for Super Mario Galaxy, and it was worth it. And hey, I thought Sega was never gonna make a good game again for a lot longer, yet somehow… Valkyria Chronicles happened.

For some reason I think the cycles of Nintendo’s games being good don’t always match up well on every system. Like, Mario was great on N64 and Wii, lukewarm on Gamecube and probably won’t evolve well on WiiU. So this may be a good console for lesser-utilized properties (in my most hopeful dreams).

I’d start the process of having one iota of real, not imaginary interest in it if they would produce just one great, unique, fun game on it. Not a bunch of decent filler. The complication arises from how little third party support they have making it a non-viable console. Great consoles have a lot of crap filler games, yet Nintendo has to take on the largest burden of putting those out themselves than for any of their previous consoles. I mean, that’s why we remember such great Nintendo made games from NES and SNES, because they could focus more of their energies on making great games.

Lastly, I want to see for the WiiU: Square Enix try a new Crystal Chronicles or like a Seiken Densetsu, and Sega a Toe Jam and Earl.

I also think there are great possibilities for strategy games, SRPGs like Fire Emblem or things similar to the PS3′s Valkyria Chronicles. I’m personally not too interested in remote play, I’d like instead to see the TV and gamepad working together in a clever way.

And personally my only detachment from the WiiU is the lack of software. I think the concept of the WiiU looks great. There’s just no proof of that concept.

Shigeru Miyamoto is totally correct. The WiiU doesn’t lool fun at all.

People have been calling it “another Gamecube.” The thing is, that system had a couple of all-time greatest Nintendo games in Metroid Prime and Wind Waker, along with a bunch of good to great ones. WiiU just has more of the same; another New Super Mario Bros., Luigi’s Mansion, Pikmin, etc. will not make it a decent, memorable system years from now like the original games (Prime, Luigi’s Mansion, Pikmin) or previously established series’ games (Super Smash Bro’s, Zelda, and Mario Sunshine to an extent) who had significantly noticable differences and/or improvements over N64 did for the Gamecube. I think it’s only real market now could be children who, lacking our strong memory of the previous iterations of games, may therefore be more excitable for what I’ve written off as “more of the same.” There’s nothing wrong with that for kids, they deserve a Nintendo system for their developming senses as much as we did, but it doesn’t seem sustainable in the long run.

The latest in Squeenix’s masturbation simulators, Final Freemium Tactics’ gameplay consists of rubbing your finger up and down on the device until you win and/or cum all over your device.