The sorry state of the Wii U

[Hiro]

people seem to have latched onto this idea ever since nintendo consolidated its handheld and console development teams into one department, but i have no idea why anyone took it to mean they'd be combining the devices themselves lol

well I never heard that so that's not my line of thinking anyway lol
plus they wouldn't go about it in the way you're saying. more likely it would probably be something like a portable system that would also function as the controller for a home console (that would run higher end games plus the portables) or perhaps it would just be a system that would stream these high end games to the portable system, like a wii u gamepad the size of a 3ds with 4g capabilities or something i dunno man
plus they claim this is a "3rd pillar" so it could easily be something silly that one wouldn't want/expect for a mainline console

[Kalahari Inkantation]

people seem to have latched onto this idea ever since nintendo consolidated its handheld and console development teams into one department, but i have no idea why anyone took it to mean they'd be combining the devices themselves lol

more likely it would probably be something like a portable system that would also function as the controller for a home console (that would run higher end games plus the portables) or perhaps it would just be a system that would stream these high end games to the portable system, like a wii u gamepad the size of a 3ds with 4g capabilities or something i dunno man

i heard ideas like these being floated too, but they also jeapordize nintendo's two distinct revenue streams by significantly reducing the necessity of owning both a nintendo handheld and a nintendo home console

if they were to do something like this, i'd be perfectly content to just by the proper home version of the device if their libraries were shared and the only difference is that the console has better grfx and access to a larger screen, i almost never play handheld games outside of my own room anyway and i'm sure that goes for the vast majority of owners of a dedicated gaming handheld

i buy handhelds for the exclusives more than anything else

not that something like sony's ps3-ps vita cross play wouldn't be amazing convenient, but that sort of service really only makes sense for older generations of games that can be very easily played on a handheld and don't limit the potential of a home console lol

i sure would love to wake up one day all find my wii and wii u virtual console purchases playable on my 3ds (and 3ds vc purchases playable on wii u), but alas, this is nintendo we're talking about

[Hiro]

if they were to do something like this, i'd be perfectly content to just by the proper home version of the device if their libraries were shared and the only difference is that the console has better grfx and access to a larger screen

but see what i was saying is the portable system is needed as the controller for the home system, potentially they would come bundled together, there would not be a home system without the portable system

[Kalahari Inkantation]

if they were sold as a bundle like that and so tightly integrated with each other they'd still essentially be one device, a console with a semi-independent controller

i can't see nintendo willingly halving its hardware offerings like that lol

and i can only imagine how expensive additional controllers would be, if sold separately at all (god forbid we end up with another wii u situation where there's a hard limit of just one primary controller per system, please never again)

[don't let's]

RIP

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://kotaku.com/how-nintendo-makes-its-games-appear-cheaper-in-japan-1706744822

'b-but why don't third parties like us ??'

[ME##]

http://kotaku.com/how-nintendo-makes-its-games-appear-cheaper-in-japan-1706744822

'b-but why don't third parties like us ??'

rofl i didn't know you could exclude tax from prices in japan @_@

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/05/project_cars_studio_boss_admits_to_problems_with_wii_u_version_hoping_for_nintendo_hardware_announcement_at_e3

rofl one less third party game

not that any of the six wii u owners in the world were going to buy this anyway

[Thyme]

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/05/project_cars_studio_boss_admits_to_problems_with_wii_u_version_hoping_for_nintendo_hardware_announcement_at_e3

rofl one less third party game

.............................no one was gonna buy that on the wii u

[Classic]

They have the superior Mario Kart anyhow. 

[ME##]

'but we need to save the children from voice chat'

[The artist formally known]

idk how you cannot cuss on voice chats, they're some of my favorite words

[Kalahari Inkantation]

[ME##]

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN

[Kalahari Inkantation]