Can you avoid the WII U?

once it builds a decent library, i MIGHT end up picking one up. for now i have a ps3 and a 360, two consoles that will be betting the majority of games the wii u will be getting. so there's really no use. plus the ps3 has a sh*t ton of amazing exclusives relasing next year. i'm good to wait.

I have no intention whatsoever of buying a WiiU; the Wii was sh*t and the WiiU looks to be the same. If I bought it, I'd simply play it for a month then it will just collect dust.

there is good software coming to the wiiu, but as a piece of tech it has got to be one of the least enthusing console releases ever.

Touch screens seem great for people inexperienced with gaming and appreciate that tactile connection but for an established gamer it is little more than a curiousity and not much of one at that. We've seen touch screens in games before on the DS and elsewhere, and they give a basic idea of how the wiiu will approach games. The other tech upgrades are nothing amazing either. Graphics horsepower, online component, and motion controls are improvements on what we have already but not a huge improvement. A lot of their upgrades are more about catching up to the competition than getting techies to take notice.

I own a ps3. I would like to own a wiiu because I like software, but if I were more excited for the wiiu as tech (and the software that goes along with that tech) then I might get it at launch and pay a bit more. And yes, I did buy a wii at launch largely because I was interested in its technology, and I wasn't disappointed. I never played anything like wiisports before then

Guys I was just curious as GAMERS, how it is that you can possibly avoid the WiiU this Fall when it launches?ShoTTyMcNaDeS

Simple. I'm not a Nintendo fan.

Shouldn't be too hard, I've skipped out on Nintendo consoles since N64.

Gxgear

lol how can anyone not avoid that pos? themajormayor

I certainly have the money for it, but alas, I am without the desire for now... maybe down the road if it can separate itself from what the 360 and ps3 already do I'll look into it, but for now, its a no... and easily avoided. I need to see if Nintendo has another approach than just "nostalgia"... I always root for Nintendo, but they never live up to it for me... anymore, anyway.

TheEroica

How will it avoid it? Easy, so far it lacks games I could be interested it that I can't get on other platforms. Hopefully this will change in the future, but for now I won't have problem with avoiding it.

I'm interested in the backwards compatability

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I certainly have the money for it, but alas, I am without the desire for now... maybe down the road if it can separate itself from what the 360 and ps3 already do I'll look into it, but for now, its a no... and easily avoided. I need to see if Nintendo has another approach than just "nostalgia"... I always root for Nintendo, but they never live up to it for me... anymore, anyway.

Heil68

:shock::D