Nintendo pulls out WiiU from GamesCom

[Veho]

I meant for all casual,hardcore,mature,kids, or whatever.

But if it can run hardcore and mature games, why should the fact it can run causal and kids' games matter? (And vice versa.)

I mean, I don't see "family" and "hardcore" mutually exclusive from a hardware perspective. Or do "hardcore" gamers not have families?

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

holy shit...if this is true and Nintendo is reconsidering the Wii-U being released...this will go down as a marketing disaster as worse as the Virtual Boy and the Nintendo 64DD

 

[Wizerzak]

Man, Nintendo could come up with the best system in the world and people can still find ways to complain.

Nintendo's for kids, everyone knows that.

Read my previous post, and actually watch you Youtube clip I linked.

 

[Deleted User]

If Nintendo completely scrapped Wii U and made a whole new console without the dead-end tablet controller, then I'd sell my Xbox for scrap.

 

[chyyran]

I actually liked the idea of the tablet controller

But It does seem kind of awkward to be swinging around that thing. Wonder how the final product is gonna look like.

 

[Rayder]

What they SHOULD do, instead of that hideous and inevitably overpriced tablet controller is give you a normal controller (whatever is considered "normal" for Nintendo anyway) for the console and let you use the 3DS as a second screen and controller if you really feel you need that screen in your hand while playing a console.

But you know, what people think Nintendo should do and what Nintendo actually does is two completely different things. Most likely they just pulled the console from GamesCom because they really don't have any software complete enough to show yet. People didn't take too well to finding out they used PS3/X-Box footage to show off the WiiU at E3 and they would be foolish to pull that maneuver again.

It's also possible that they were counting on swift sales of the 3DS to fund their GamesCom excursion and since the 3DS ain't selling so well, they decided to save money and skip the GamesCom presentation of the WiiU.

 

[DiscostewSM]

I love how everyone is referring to the controller as if it was an actual tablet so they can assume it will be expensive. If it were an actual tablet, then you could do stuff on it without the console, right? Has Nintendo said it could do anything to that extent? There is this article, using Kotaku as a source, that says that the "Wii U Controller Will Have Built in Web Browser", yet nowhere within Kotaku's interview did it mention that the controller was self-contained to not require the WiiU console for browsing the internet. From what I read, it only mentions that you don't have to wait for your TV to turn on to begin browsing, as "you have a screen available at any time that you can check.", which was mentioned after having stated the Wii could browse the internet, but required a wait period while the TV was turning on.

 

[nIxx]

Well the 3DS wasn´t on last years GamesCom too. (at least for the public).
That the Wii U isn´t on GamesCom means nothing.
So i would say stop to make more out of it as it is, it´s just stupid

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[Zerosuit connor]

Nintendo is going to shit, because of the 3ds & the earthquake.

 

[ShakeBunny]

I think it's a pretty innovative idea, which is generally what Nintendo is known for, but I don't think the WiiU is a good move for Nintendo at this time.

With the less than satisfactory performance of the 3DS so far, I think consumers aren't really looking for any sort of special gimmick like a touch pad controller.

I'd rather have a comfy controller, with plain 'ol buttons, a system with good graphics, and a library of fun games to play. I think something along these lines is what Nintendo really needs if they want to get back more of us hardcore gamers. They should take a page from MS and Sony, and go back to the basics.

 

[Wizerzak]

I know this is a stupid, slightly unrelated question but:

Is there the tiniest possibility that the Wii U will appear at the Eurogamer Expo at the end of September?

 

[Deleted member 473940]

I know this is a stupid, slightly unrelated question but:

Is there the tiniest possibility that the Wii U will appear at the Eurogamer Expo at the end of September?

We wont really know till then. But since they are not showing it at GamesCom, the chances are pretty low.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Since we are talking about the controller, let's review their history: