Gianni Merryman said:
Do you think they're not going to bundle it?
I reckon it would not be a smart move, if Nintendo wants Wii Remote to be still supported they should put at least one in the box in the first place, methinks.
They won't bundle it because there has to be a primary Wii U controller, the same way the Wiimote was the primary input device for the Wii and not the Classic Controller.
What do you think would have happened if the Classic Controller had been included with the original Wii? No 3rd party dev would have even touched the Wiimote and instead would have just use the classic input method.
The point in making those "special" controller the primary input device is that it forces everyone to use them. Otherwise, they wouldn't.
Now don't get me wrong, I think they
should include the Wiimote+ with the Wii U, because when they
do release Wii U games that work best with it, then a lot of people won't be able to experience such games as they were intended. And quite frankly, the Wiimote + needs more love. It finally delivers what everyone thought the Wiimote was going to do in the first place, but now it's too late and 3rd parties (good ones) don't even care anymore.
If we have a look at other competitors, Microsoft has been quite successful with its Kinect but they had to pump an insane amount of money and resources in order to make it so, on the other hand Sony's failure with their Move - sorry if I'm putting it in a quite brutal way, no offence meant, but does anybody consider it otherwise? - just proves the point I'm making here.
Well, I was talking more about the actual controller and not an optional stuff like Kinect, Move or Balance Board, because none of those input devices have replaced the main controller. Up until now, Nintendo has never replaced or added features to one of their primary controllers.
Sega replaced their Genesis pad for a 6 button one. The Saturn's pad was replaced by the much smaller Japanese version and/or the analog abomination. Sony's Dual Shock replaced the original Playstation 1 controller, just like the Dual Shock 3 replaced the Sixaxis.
Meanwhile, Nintendo stuck with the same design and faulty analog stick with the N64 controller. Same with the Gamecube. They could have easily replaced the C-Stick with an actual analog stick, but they didn't.
But now, this the first time they have caved in and changed their controllers. Both the Wiimote and the Classic Controller were changed (for the better).
The Wiimote + is effectively the new Wii controller. It's not an add-on or an alternative version, it's the replacement. It's the standard.
flopped. They won't stay on 3DS long if they keep getting results like that...
