Top Ten Games to Benefit from WiiU Tablet Scanning

On April 27th, the Rayman Legends video was leaked out to the world. Aside from the surprise that the critically acclaimed but sales anemic Rayman Origins had spurned a sequel was the much talked about footage of WiiU play that was featured prominently. In the video (below) players scan in a heart and a Rabbid into the game using the WiiU tablet in much the same manner a character is ‘ported’ into a game in Skylanders.

[shackdaddy]

I thought it would be pretty cool if like game boxes came with a card that you can touch to the controller to maybe give you a demo of another game or maybe give an extra in-game item if you pre-order the game. You know, instead of having to put in that 12-letter code every time...

Or, it would be cool if they implemented some sort of card that you can build up points for when you purchase games at a Best Buy or whatever. Then, when you want to buy a game/DLC on their online store, you can use those points to get a discount by touching the card to the controller. Kinda like frequent-flyer programs that airliners do.

There could be a lot more implementations then just using toys...

[stuntman_mike]

i hope they use the Nintendo points system to use on the online store to buy games and DLC and stuff.
the swiping of a card to get DLC is a good idea and saves a bit of time.

also with that device Nintendo talked about, the one you carry around and recognizes other units to capture gamer data. maybe when you go in to game stores or local supermarkets you get free DLC or other stuff that you can download to your WiiU.

[bacrec1]

Yes it going to be a game changer, like it or not. You all can thank Skylanders for this.

[Khordchange]

Im just glad I don't have to put in a 20 digit digital codes anymore for dlc

[--Onilink--]

i think it would be really cool if they made some kind of strategy/ tower defense game where the tablet shows a map grid and you place actual pieces on the tablet, then they show on the TV screen.

Though i have no idea if the technology only works with 1 item at a time

[TheDivine]

Oh man that would be epic for some wizards chess. Play it out with pieces on the tablet and the watch them destroy each other on the screen. That does have some really cool possibilities.

[BuffMordecai]

I just hope they make a regular version of rayman legends on other platforms without the need for this crap. Origins was the best game I played last year and I'll be damned if I pay for little figurines just to make the new game work.

[AWBrawler]

dude it's not mandatory just as new figures aren't mandatory to complete the main story on Skylanders

[mamotte]

This will sound weird, but I dont like the idea. Now, dont get it wrong: It sounds great and all, problem is, I live in Colombia, a little hole in South America. Now, we have problems connecting, not only with nintendo Shops, but With the PSN. They just dont give us the service, maybe our digital money is fake or something like that.

Now, we can "cheat" the system just by putting our console set to USA, but still, they don accept our credit cards. So, as you can see, in my country we're really f*ck+d about buying digital content. Now, lets go to a really specific case: Pokemon. We can get the pokemon and items they give via Wifi. But there's no way we can get an event pokemon, just because we dont have a pokemon center, or a gamestop like store here. Now... if that's the case with that, we cant even dream about getting physical limited items to get special content for the WiiU.

So... that's my sad story. So, it's a great idea... but at the same time, I dont like it.