All that makes perfect sense, except the Switch and everything else but maybe the DS and 3DS, are just plain old every day hardware. The Wii U has something that no other hardware can do. At any rate, thankfully we are able to inject our DS games as Virtual Channels. I'll never play the DS Castlevanias and Metal Max's among others, on anything but my Wii U at this point.
Forget Skyrim, imagine if Open Morrowind was in there, which is a more realistic goal. And imagine if you dealt with all your map and item options on the gamepad rather than the TV, ala Breath of the Wild. or Classic DOOM with the Map on the Bottom Screen, etc. Gamer devs and coders these days... they must lack imagination.Port-wise, I'd have to say the main factor(s) against it are because of the fact that One : It just takes a lot of time, and people don't want to have to deal with that on an outdated, poorly documented piece of hardware - and Two : people usually get the mind-set to where they think something along these lines, "well it can emulate pretty much every console under the sun, soooo" Which I mean, it makes sense. The emulation scene for the Wii U is objectively some of the best I've ever seen on any console, so much so that I've seen countless people get a Wii U specifically for that fact. But I get where you're coming from, more ports would be nice but- I wouldn't count on a lot more progress any time soon.
Although imagine if Skyrim was on the Wii U, we need to spread it's dominance onto every possible platform somehow.
Indeed, it would be neat to see an open source Wii U like alternative. Not a Laptop and a TV screen so much, but something like the Wii U, with a screen in your controller as well as the TV, only with hardware that everyone knows how to develop for, as well as modern hardware that will only appeal to people who must have every version of the iPhone because last year's is "out of date", etc.
lol hud on the gamepad would be godawful, quake and doom are very fast paced games so looking down on the gamepad to see how much health or amno you have would be a huge hinderance, gamepad is fine for stuff like maps or inventory management but not for critical things in fast paced games.
But he's right. Best example is star fox for the wii u. It is such a pain in the ass to play this game because the cockpit view is on the gamepad (or was it on screen? I dunno) and the action on the tv. And this is annoying as fuck when you have to move your head up and down the whole time to "enjoy" a game. In my opinion, the gamepad wasn't neccessary. It's a nice gimmick, but that's it. Games like zelda twilight princess or wind waker implemented the gamepad function good (but it isn't perfect). I just want a relatively powerful console from nintendo with a good controller and not a bulky gamepad which is required to access the system settings for example.
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