How the Wii U Will Change How We Game

GotGame: We’re just a few short weeks away from E3. With the potential announcement of new consoles by Microsoft and Sony seeming increasingly unlikely, Nintendo has a golden opportunity to steal the show with the Wii U and score an early victory in the next generation console wars.

[Emilio_Estevez]

Really like the sniper one.

[darthv72]

is the evolution of the vmu but on steroids. There are many possible ideas of its use. For flight sims it can be used for the various controls as found in a cockpit.

Or as some type of radar screen or motion detector (like in aliens). Or dash controls for driving games.

Typical things that would tend to clutter the overall view of the person playing. Or even better...for calling plays in sports games so the other persona cant see what you are doing. For that they would need to allow for multiple screens to be supported or at least create a bridge for those who use a ds/dsi/3ds as a possible screen/controller.

[Emilio_Estevez]

While I agree some of these (and your) ideas are good; I can't help but think it will hinder the controller itself. It's too big for any normal game, and the added cost doesn't really justify a fancy hud for me, especially considering we already have HD consoles now, and my TV is big enough to where the HUD isn't in the way at all. Still on the fence for the WiiU, not making any final decisions until it's specs are finalized and they show actual game footage(Not PS3/360 footage like last years E3)

[Ramon3MR]

It may be minor, but I like the idea of using the screen as the inventory screen and keeping the game's HUD clean.

[fossilfern]

Yea keeping the screen totally free of any clutter is great. I still think a 3D First Person Metroid game would be amazing on this machine! Honestly havnt looked forward this much for a console in a long time

[darthv72]

using the screen in an aliens game as the motion tracker.

[fossilfern]

Perfect idea! And it will be great for RPGs too instead of pausing and going through the menu you can just scroll through your inventory on the screen! Hope they get Elder Scrolls to the WiiU

[mamotte]

God, I want to see a sequel for The World Ends With You in this console. Oh, and btw, using it as a basic replacement for a tablet would be really great. Videos, calls, internet, add some video codecs, images and pdf support and I'll be buying this day 1.

[Machioto]

I was never impressed by the wiiu demostration of its tablet controller,I thought it didn't make sense to do that stuff because you have a tv and all of the demo seems better suited to a handheld,I feel that if thet went with an updated motion controller,the benefit being that Sony and Nintendo would have a better chance of third paty dev incorporating it in to their games,assuming that implementation wise,it was easy.

[Zeppelino]

If this guy can have such great ideas, I wonder how great names of this industry will take advantage of the WII U controller.
Just being able to surf the web with the community on your hands would be awesome.

Sorry for the bad English

[KwietStorm_BLM]

I don't know where you're from, but you just spoke much better English than a lot of people in America.

[Zeppelino]

Portugal

Pleased to know that buddy :)

[tweet75]

the wii u will be a hit with married couples where one is a gamer the other is not. Because one can watch what they want on the tv the other can play on the tablet.

[bothebo]

It won't change anything because no one is going to buy it.

[dubal-e]

you must be smoking something, that thing is gonna sell like crazy. Now pass that stuff so I can think like you.

[bothebo]

How is it going to sell like crazy? It can't appeal to anyone other than Nintendo fan boys. It has no hard core games other than first parties or third parties made by Ubisoft. There is hardly any casual market let because of amazon. Sony is still announcing exclusives for the Wii U, and the 360 is only $199 as well as the PS3. So unless the Wii U is under $200, which is impossible, there is no incentive to buy it for hard core gamers. Unless, you're into Nintendo's first parties, which was the same with the Wii during its launch. We all know what happened there...Furthermore, if the Orbis and Xbox 8/720 is priced less than $400 it is game over, on the spot, game over for Nintendo.

Here you go, end of discussion: http://www.gamezone.com/pro...

[dubal-e]

If its one thing nintendo knows how to do its sell hardware. They will market this system well enough and between that and word of mouth the sales i'll be there. What I'll do is add you on here and we'll have this conversation again after the system launch. If im wrong which I doubt I'll be I'll give you your props and admit it.

[bothebo]

Look forward to it.