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CNN thinks the Wii U is a controller

A story on the Wii U by CNN has got it all wrong. They talk about the Wii U as an accessory and a controller instead of a new console.

"Will Nintendo's forthcoming Wii U controller breathe new life into its aging Wii console?"

Umm... No.

Snookies125078d ago

Hahahahaha! I love things like this...

T9005078d ago

I think naming it Wii U is ending up causing the confusion. If they must have the name Wii, then i would suggest they name it Wii 2.

Though whats funny is what identified the Wii was motion gaming. The Wii U doesnt seem to be having any focus on that front.

BISHOP-BRASIL5077d ago

No focus on that front? Local multiplayer is practically limited to Wiimote, the WiiU Game Pad itself has motion controls and they even use the touchscreen as part of the motion tech (as in the throwing stars).

And the biggest problem in my view is that they barelly talked about the console itself. Have they shown at least the price everyone would've understanded it's a new console and not a controller for the Wii.

saladthieves5078d ago

Once again, more proof that the media knows jack about the gaming world.

I'm 100% sure there are people out there who believe the Wii U is a new portable device from Nintendo with a screen in the middle, capable of interfacing the Wii in all sorts of ways.

exsturminator015078d ago

Nintendo are kind of perpetrating this misunderstanding though. Every time they speak about Wii U, what do they do? They show videos of the controller and all the great gimmicks it comes with. They haven't shown what the console itself looks like at all, and barely touched on the fact that it has different/better specs than a standard Wii. If I wasn't a gamer, and I watched the conference, I'd be thinking Wii U was a tablet peripheral to the Wii as well; that's the way they are presenting it.

lizard812885077d ago

Even more so, the casual won't know either. They'll just buy the pad and then come home and try to sync it to their wiis.

Nintendo STILL hasn't shown the actual console

T_T

killerhog5078d ago

This means 70% of casuals will also make the similar mistake.

BubloZX5077d ago

Lol wait till the holiday season when all your casual consumers go out to buy the wii u. Lmao people are gonna be going home in disappointment when they find out they gotta spend another $300 because its not just a tablet.

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PirateThom5078d ago

If a writer on a website like CNN can mistake this for an accessory and people in the gaming world had the same issue last year... do you see how this could be a problem with a mainstream, non-gaming audience?

mike1up5078d ago

They have only had two whole E3 conferences to figure it out...

Shadow Flare5078d ago

Surely they must have sat through the nintendo conference, the whole time thinking it was an add-on for the Wii lol

Disccordia5078d ago

Indeed, I thought the same after last years conference and so did a lot of people. A year on and I don't ever remember Nintendo talking about the console itself yesterday. They certainly never showed it on stage, it was all about the controller.

I agree with PT that Nintendo might struggle with marketing this to the everyday person.

miyamoto5078d ago (Edited 5078d ago )

From a casual & mass market standpoint this is a reliable test of Nintendo's E3 conference.

I give Nintendo high grades for experimenting but explaining their new tech to common people is another story.

Having to look between two screens back & forth while in the heat of gaming, like the Dreamcast controller, I still see the Wii U game pad as an obstruction to seamless game play.

The proposition of bringing the game where ever you go inside the house is good for games that require a single screen.

But what about games that require the TV & the game pad?
Like Batman and Zombie U?
Can you play it inside the bathroom or in bed?

JsonHenry5078d ago

But unlike most of the news we get they were at least half right this time around. :)

metsgaming5078d ago

how did i lose a bubble mentioning this in another thread and yet everyone seems to agree. This is a problem but they are lucky that they can afford make it.

shackdaddy5077d ago (Edited 5077d ago )

Not really. You just need to spend 1 second on google to see that it's not. The guy making this article is obviously really stupid. I mean, he was even at E3...

Once commercials start, everything should be fine.

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TLG19915078d ago

its a fail on both parts CNN for not researching and Nintendo for not explaining properly.

for people who don't follow it (like nintendos fanbase/customers basically families getting it for there kids) this confusing will be made EVERY TIME because all nintendo are showing is this stupid controller, they may as well have made it another handheld console.

BootHammer5078d ago

Wow...forward this to a few Nintendo reps in hopes of some improvements in marketing their brand. This is case in point that they have lost sight in how to clearly define what their console is, what their audience wants and why it's a must purchase item come launch.

A lot of potential Wii U owners were probably lost due the second lackluster E3 presentation.

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Deathdeliverer55d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi54d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure54d ago (Edited 54d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer55d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot55d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box54d ago (Edited 54d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno55d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay55d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno53d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK54d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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