Nintendo gives its fans the big Wii U

Greetings programs. By this time anyone in the gaming world should have heard about the Wii U the poorly named successor to the Wii. For another poorly named system
see the Playstation Vita. Anyway Nintendo revealed the system during E3 last month and even though there presentation was less then stellar the Wii U does bring in some interesting possibilities that could give Microsoft and Sony a run for there money.

Basically Nintendo focused on the controller of the system more then anything since that seems to be the primary focus of this new system. If you haven't seen this thing yet it looks like a Ipad with controller buttons on it. To me this opens up tons of possibilities but I will get into that in a second. The second coolest thing is that the fact that Wii remotes can also be hooked up to this thing and not just for Wii games but also Wii U games. The example they gave was a golf game where the tablet controller was on the ground and had a ball in sand and someone held the Wii remote as a golf club. Once they swung the Wii remote the ball went from the tablet to the TV. I don't know I think that's cool.

So what can we do with the tablet and the, finally, HD graphics of the Wii U? There are two things both of which are exciting. Number one ever had to share a TV with someone? Here you are gaming and the other person wants to watch TV and then its just a battle where the gamer tends to lose? Well now with the Wii U you can have the best of both worlds since you can stream games to the controller! Now don't get too excited though because there is a limited range so you can't take the game on the go. That would have been the icing on the awesome cake though if you could.

The second thing is image a HUDless TV. No heart counters or magic meters just plan old HD game play. All this information would be on the tablet. For an idea of what this might be like play Ocarina of Time 3D. Its not 100 percent HUDless but its close. The idea of turning the DS into a video game console, which if you look at it is what this is, is one of the best ideas they have come up with. Okay so imagine this, playing Zelda where all the information is on the controller your hearts items, maps all that and you have the tablet on a mini table for quick accesses and use the Wii remote to move him around and swing his sword still. Granted that this a lot but hell I would play a game like that. Not saying they would do that but its just an example. Another examples are hold the tablet up to the TV and using it as a zoom if say you had a sniper rifle. Maybe you're Batman and its a quick accesses to all you gadgets or you racing against cheating scum like Bowser and its your review mirror.

Ultimately I think this might really truly be the first system where programers can really use there imagination since there are countless possibilities. This might also be the first system since the Super Nintendo that 3 parties are excited for. Almost all the big 3 parties are lined up for this thing and we'll see games like Arkham City and Aliens on it. With that said this also could be a problem. Nintendo is going to need exclusives if it doesn't want to be known as the port machine. What is going to make me buy Aliens on the Wii U and not say PS3? That controller is going to make all the different and unless they can some good creative uses out of it they will lose sales to system that A people already have and B are much cheaper. Nintendo already stated that this system will not be cheap so they need a STRONG lunch unlike the WEAK lunch of the 3DS.

As time goes by we will learn more about this thing and will like it or love it when it launches next year. The newest thing seems to be that it will support 3D TVs even though Nintendo itself has no plans for 3D games. Why do this then? Its just another thing to give publishers more options to what they can do. Personally I am quite excited at the possibilities of what this thing can do and much like the Wii I plan on losing a lot of money when this thing launches. This might be one of the most exciting things to happen to video games since 8-bits or the most disastrous thing to happen since the 32X. Need another reason to buy it? Check out the Legend of Zelda tech demo. I warn you though bring some tissues because its just that orgasmic.

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