Poll: What do you think of the WiiU now?

[Ipsen]

I thoroughly enjoy my near year-old Wii U, even with the now 4 games made for it I have for it (2 digital): Wind Waker, Wonderful 101, Pikmin 3, and Mario Kart. Circumstances willing, I'll enjoy Smash, Starfox, Hyrule Warriors, sandbox Zelda, and Splatoon as well.

What turned my head is a change in perspective; the controller isn't so much a tablet, as it does make the controller + TV medium a high-def DS. I have high hopes (with evidence in titles like WW HD and Zombie U) that design like this will continue, as I love my (3)DS, and while the touch or 3D isn't used to spectacular effect, I hardly care when the games can be so good.

That's a peculiarity I noticed with the 3DS; 3D, even touch function were just an immature selling point; It just sounds cool (and 3D smooths the overall look of the game as well), but the best games don't usually make active use of it. I guess we should want silly hardware functions like these to be an effective part of the interaction with the game...But good games/game design still make the true worth of these consoles.

I also didn't come to look at the Wii U as if it's the only game platform I own or ever owned. I have plenty of games even just on the PS3, let alone Steam/GoG and handhelds. My wallet would appreciate spread-out Wii U releases...

 

[Post Tenebrae Morte]

Needs more Metroid. I like Zelda. I like Smash Bros. I like Mario. I'm not getting the WiiU until they announce a new Metroid game for it, NOt developed by Team Ninja or anyone involved with Other M.

Good luck with that, considering yoshio sakamoto is the creator of metroid, samus included, and wrote the story of other m along with directing it.

 

[Zendariel]

To original topic, was interested and still am, just can't really afford it. For me it has been the most interesting of the big three, large part is due to almost every other game making it to pc, and nintendo has just about always been more about "couch co-op" than the others which i really enjoy with my friends and family. It's always a letdown when a game advertises multiplayer for up to 4 players and the maximum you can play locally is 2 or the local multiplayer might not even exist even if it looks like it should be really easy to implement.

What turned my head is a change in perspective; the controller isn't so much a tablet, as it does make the controller + TV medium a high-def DS. I have high hopes (with evidence in titles like WW HD and Zombie U) that design like this will continue, as I love my (3)DS, and while the touch or 3D isn't used to spectacular effect, I hardly care when the games can be so good.

That's a peculiarity I noticed with the 3DS; 3D, even touch function were just an immature selling point; It just sounds cool (and 3D smooths the overall look of the game as well), but the best games don't usually make active use of it. I guess we should want silly hardware functions like these to be an effective part of the interaction with the game...But good games/game design still make the true worth of these consoles.

On the DS and touch thing i really disagree with calling it just an immature selling point. I can't say anything of the 3D as i still can't affort a 3DS(though i would probably agree on that, it sounds really cool but I haven't really heard that it would have been used to great effect). But the touch screen made quite a few games possible and it preceded the mainstream smartphones that utilised touch screens so just to list few games that utilised the touch screen either to a great effect or as a primary input device.

-The world ends with you, square rpg that i thought i'd hate(wasn't into the music at first and not really into the character designs either) but ended as one of my favourite games for the system.
-Professor layton series
-Ace attorney series debuted on gba in japan, but was only seen outside japan with the ds
-Ghost trick was playable with the buttons but it was just better with the touch screen
-Puzzle quest
-Elite beat agents

From the top of my head. Now i know the ds gave us a bazillion great games that could not care less about the touch capabilities. Nevertheless it was a great addition to the controls that enabled quite a few great games that wouldn't exist without it.

 

[Ipsen]

On the DS and touch thing i really disagree with calling it just an immature selling point. I can't say anything of the 3D as i still can't affort a 3DS(though i would probably agree on that, it sounds really cool but I haven't really heard that it would have been used to great effect). But the touch screen made quite a few games possible and it preceded the mainstream smartphones that utilised touch screens so just to list few games that utilised the touch screen either to a great effect or as a primary input device.

-The world ends with you, square rpg that i thought i'd hate(wasn't into the music at first and not really into the character designs either) but ended as one of my favourite games for the system.
-Professor layton series
-Ace attorney series debuted on gba in japan, but was only seen outside japan with the ds
-Ghost trick was playable with the buttons but it was just better with the touch screen
-Puzzle quest
-Elite beat agents

From the top of my head. Now i know the ds gave us a bazillion great games that could not care less about the touch capabilities. Nevertheless it was a great addition to the controls that enabled quite a few great games that wouldn't exist without it.

True, I wouldn't say that touch functionality is as much an immature, flimsy selling point anymore (how long was DS out before smartphone gaming took off?), or at least as much as the 3D functionality on 3DS. It amounts to more tactile to tap, hold, and swipe movement, and while simple, already proven itself an effective control method.

I'm actually quite torn if use of the touch screen on DS or Wii U fits snugly with traditional game design and their typical control schemes. In any case, it always feels like a change of pace or splitting of attention when I have to use it. That can be good or bad. Wildly so. So I can understand the complaints, yet I do feel I happen to be one of the people it usually works out for.

 

[FillerDmon]

606 Votes! Yay, my thread had traction!

One would disregard the 178 votes, since if you already have a WiiU, there's little use in purchasing another one for yourself... and you'd also ignore the 61 who couldn't get one if they wanted to, given that they have other things that matter first.

So out of 367 possible changes in opinion, about a quarter of those who voted said that their minds have been changed for the WiiU, and about an eighth of those who voted are still pretty determined to get a WiiU. Any set of numbers could be improved, but that's a rather solid boost in the former, and decent results for the later, I might say.

I think I noticed since the last time I checked that a few more people actively got turned off since then. I honestly can't think of the last time I saw games come out that made me specifically not want to buy the system, but then again I don't the reasons for those who voted in the thread without looking and tying each vote to each user.

Meanwhile, just a little under half still don't want one, and a little over an eighth don't particularly care... interesting. I wonder what Nintendo would need to do to try to win over the apathetic members of its potential customer base, and to get those who turned away to reconsider them. I suppose time will only tell; maybe I should make this thread again come next year, with the results from the previous one to be compared to the new one after a similar month's gap.

All in all, this certainly was an interesting E3, huh?

 

[Zendariel]

On the DS and touch thing i really disagree with calling it just an immature selling point. I can't say anything of the 3D as i still can't affort a 3DS(though i would probably agree on that, it sounds really cool but I haven't really heard that it would have been used to great effect). But the touch screen made quite a few games possible and it preceded the mainstream smartphones that utilised touch screens so just to list few games that utilised the touch screen either to a great effect or as a primary input device.

-The world ends with you, square rpg that i thought i'd hate(wasn't into the music at first and not really into the character designs either) but ended as one of my favourite games for the system.
-Professor layton series
-Ace attorney series debuted on gba in japan, but was only seen outside japan with the ds
-Ghost trick was playable with the buttons but it was just better with the touch screen
-Puzzle quest
-Elite beat agents

From the top of my head. Now i know the ds gave us a bazillion great games that could not care less about the touch capabilities. Nevertheless it was a great addition to the controls that enabled quite a few great games that wouldn't exist without it.

True, I wouldn't say that touch functionality is as much an immature, flimsy selling point anymore (how long was DS out before smartphone gaming took off?), or at least as much as the 3D functionality on 3DS. It amounts to more tactile to tap, hold, and swipe movement, and while simple, already proven itself an effective control method.

I'm actually quite torn if use of the touch screen on DS or Wii U fits snugly with traditional game design and their typical control schemes. In any case, it always feels like a change of pace or splitting of attention when I have to use it. That can be good or bad. Wildly so. So I can understand the complaints, yet I do feel I happen to be one of the people it usually works out for.

Nintendo Ds was released about 2 years before iphone(DS 2004/2005, iPhone 2007) that started the trend of touchscreen mobile phones, I can't really say how long did it take for actual games to take off on it(Angry birds was released 2009) and DS did have quite a lot of support for touchscreen gaming even during those 2 years. If by immature you mean it had not been done at least in any greater capacity then yeah. It was very new approach to gaming controls. And the point I was making was that it allowed alternative(not quite that traditional on consoles at the time) game design and controls. More like the puzzle or adventure games you would traditionally play with mouse and such. I agree that using both the traditional and the touchscreen controls at the same time or changing between them can be distracting.