DECK'ARD said:
As a concept the Wii U is half-baked because of the limitations of the technology, and it is a very strange decision of the part of Nintendo. If you are selling a new experience you'd want everyone to experience that, if the technology isn't there to let you to do it then it probably would have been better to wait until you could.
If they have something that will improve the vast majority of gaming experiences, you think they should have put it off just because it fails to
significantly improve one tiny aspect? If they thought that way, we'd be waiting five or ten years to get this cool console.
I might agree if the controller design really hurt local multiplayer, but it doesn't. The controller is fundamentally an additive thing. It takes nothing away. Traditional local multiplayer experiences (the kind that are available on both the other consoles) can be crafted using the tablet + wiimote or
especially the tablet + classic controller. All designers have to do is limit the use of the screen to something that doesn't give a competitive advantage.
At the same time, the tablet allows for some cool multiplayer experiences that wouldn't be possible under normal circumstances.
The biggest problem this creates is mostly about perceptions and messaging. It could be a confusing concept and it's different than what people expect for a console, but if xbox 360 and PS3 are the baselines for comparison, this console
can deliver all the same local multiplayer experiences they can, as well as some new ones, with no more additional hassle or difficulty. If a person buys some wiimotes and CC's, or perhaps buys a CC that doesn't rely on the wiimote (if they make one, and I bet they will), they'll be ready to go.
It would be cooler if it could do Four swords and FFCC, but I don't think the inability to create that experience is a good enough reason to put off creating the console.
And yes, I agree they're being dishonest about the reason, but that's just PR. It would certainly be better in every way if they could work with several controllers at once.