It does to certain point but with Wii U you can’t take away your little screen more than 20 feet from your console but with the Vita you can take it anywhere but have to buy the PS3 version and the vita version so both will have things or I my wrong…
Vita was announced a long time ago. It's a handheld, but look at the features list. It has what 3DS has minus the 3D, and some of its own features (like back touchpad and 3G). The Vita on its own does most of what the WiiU does.
The trackpad could potentially function for the L2/R2, do what they did with the ninja star concept, golf (A lot more accurate with a pad than a camera), etc.
"yea because a vita comes with the purchase of every ps3 right ensuring that developers utilize this technology to its fullest right ?" - Why would you even need to do it that way? Nintendo is the one touting the stupid little screen play feature thing as one of its most important features anyway. I'll take the system that can be played further than 'the other room.....maybe'
The tablet controller is kinda cool(I guess), but it has yet to appeal to me. It only displayed casual games.
@article author Just because Nintendo said they were returning to their hardcore audience doesn't make it fact without any evidence. The core games were shown off aside and didn't seem to implement the Wii-U's tablet controller in any interesting way aside from "remote play" which people have been doing with the PS3 and PSP for years already.
The main difference is that the Wii-U's tablet controller can be used no further away than any other controller. So might as well play it on the actual TV. With the PSVita + PS3 you can take it ANYWHERE.
And the fact that PS3s don't come with a PSVita is NOT an issue for those who really want it. There are over 70 million PSP owners, that's a lot more that PS3 owners. So many are bound to have one anyways. Besides PSVita is a full gaming system!
Nintendo comes with hardware that is doing what others have already been doing and now they're the breaking new ground? I think not. Sony has been doing remote play. Tablets are nothing new, and even streaming gaming is nothing new. I'd like to know what is new with this thing? Even the dreamcast had a screen, albeit a small one, but it had a screen nonetheless on the controller.
The only new things I see here are the ways you send content from the tablet to the tv (while the console is on). Other than that most of what we've seen has been done before.
Exactly what I was gonna say. Someone on gaf already posted some pics of re2 on the dreamcast and the controller's screen would display the health status, the ammo counter, and the type of weapon equipped. Nintendo is not the originator of everything.
If sony is "imitating" nintendo, then by that logic nintendo was also "imitating" sony by including 2 analog sticks on the gamecube controller because sony was the first to implement dual analog. But, nobody ever points that out. The reality is that every system has contributed to the gaming industry in their own way, which has set the new standard for each competitor to follow. If they didn't "imitate" the competition's successes then they would come across as out of date or behind the times. Dreamcast was the first to introduce dlc and online gaming for home consoles. You could also say that ms, nintendo, and sony imitated that too but that's not the case, because we all normally understood that this was a new standard for the future of video gaming and therefore, sony, ms, and nintendo went forward with that.
And for 250 bucks. Nintendo should stop trying to create gimmicky products and focus on their hardcore lineup. I mean they haven't announced one new IP for the Wii U. It's always Zelda, Metroid, Mario or a mashup game like Smash Brothers and then a buttload of shovelware.
@sarik That sucks... I can play about 10,000 games on my wii. It's hard to choose but I usually play some monster hunter or smash. Plenty of good games. Xenoblade and the Last story on the way. Patched Fatal frame 4 is another gem.
Why would they "imitate"? The only reason Sony and Microsoft made motion controls was because of the success of the Wii. We don't even know how the Wii U is going to sell. I don't see the casuals jumping ship either. So if this whole, screen on the controller thing doesn't take off, Sony and Microsoft wont bother heading in that direction. But if it becomes something that people like/want then Sony might do their own, only they will probably do it the same way they did it with their motion controls. They won't make it mandatory it will be more of an optional thing for those who are interested.
Actually sony has been working on motion controls since the begining of the ps2 era... Just because nintendo decided to release a console that revolved around the motion concept doesnt make them first in that area...
"Actually sony has been working on motion controls since the begining of the ps2 era... Just because nintendo decided to release a console that revolved around the motion concept doesnt make them first in that area... "
Coulda, woulda, shoulda...DIDN'T.
Either way ever heard of a crappy controller by the name of the power glove? Why dont we go back that far if we are go on about something sony "may" have done but never did 10 years ago.
Kinect on the other hand however is more like the lame eye toy.
The VITA already does what the Wii U does.