@gin_rummy89

I wasn't referring to Curt Schilling, but rather those that ran his company.

Really sad news here, shame to sea all those hard working folks lose their jobs, homes, their livelyhoods. Given the talent behind KoA (MacFarlane, Salvator, Rolston) I was disappointed by how lackluster KoA felt. I got bored with it about halfway through.

How much do you want to bet the management didn't get very screwed out of all this, just the hardworking regular folks.

@Tharkun89

Curse you , you had to pick Skyrim (great game) and illustrate examples of stuff I would actually find useful with that controller hehe. I see what you're tying to do, very clever sir (or madame) but I'm onto you lol.

The map function of the controller in games is a toss up for me, in a game like Skyrim where the map is fullscreen then yes I would love to have it seperate from the main screen. But in games where the map does not fill the screen but rather is it's own little window on the main screen or jsut an overlay like in the Diablo games then I have no use for the WiiU controller.

I'm not saying the controller outright sucks, it just looks awkward to me and now they added thumbsticks...I am not a fan of thumbsicks by any means; I'll suffer them for some PS3 games I can't get on my PC, but that is few and far between.

I would wager the WiiU won't be less than $400 when it debuts. Maybe $350. Or maybe Nintendo will shock the shite out of us and price it at under $300.

@LindBergh2007

Bah, thanks for reminding me that I am old enough to remember playing the 5200 in elementary school LOL!

@Tharkun89

Take away the controller and replace it with a standard controller...how interested are you?

The Wii...take away the motion controls and how good is the console?

To each their own, if you get one I hope you have fun with it. Myself, I don't like tiny little screens and awkward-looking placed controls, but I'm weird like that.

I don't doubt they will come up with clever uses for the controller with games but it's not the kind of control setup I find enjoyable and things like the inventory or map on the controller screen is stuff I would prefer to have on the big screen infront of my face.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want it to fail or anything like that...I just know it is not for me and I can't help but think it comes off as gimmicky, but that is just from my point of view of not being interested in tablets, motion gaming controls or various things which seem to lessen the immersion factor in gaming for me.

@joujou264

Eh you're right, I can't really lay that on Nintendo as they aren't directly making all thoe games themselves.

I revise my statement, hopefully developers won't poop out tons of shovelware games for the WiiU.

"EA announced today that it will provide free distribution services for any successfully crowd-funded PC title for 90 days after launch."...

Afterwards we will charge you a crapload for distribution and anything else we can nail you for.

So it ends up being just slighlty more disappointing than DA2...not that I was expecting much from a FB game.

Meh...gimmicky controller is gimmicky. It just looks awkward and it still won't make crappy games any better. The question is can Nintendo actually make a good amount of quality games that really use the controller to it's fullest or will they just poop out a ton of shovelware games.

I'm sure this will sell like crazy but it won't ever be on my shopping list.

After reading a list of supposed features/mechanics of different elements of the game all I can say do is quote Darth Vader..."NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!"