Originally Posted by
Tanooki
Yeah Fiery you're fooling no one. As a disappointed former owner fan of the WiiU that wish it hadn't taken the crap, you're talking out of your ass on this. It's not a glorified tablet with controls on it, there's more. There are a select few games that do act as such, but on the whole, no. It's about as much of a glorified tablet as the DS/3DS are which just isn't the case. Personally for me, it was an off TV play device which really helped with the kid but also a supplemental screen to work in tandem with games much like often is the case with DS/3DS titles. It's a helpful sub-panel if anything tied onto a normal controller, much like the Vita was to the crossplay designs/controls allowed for PS4 usage.
You're mostly wrong on overpriced. Yes the tech is older, problem is which you pointed out, the controller. All the parts and manufacturing costs involved is the most expensive piece in there even now for them to produce. Had they gone with even a more normal sized controller and used it like a DS/3DS sub panel with a touch based 4" screen on it like the XL has, it would have been notably cheaper to retail and lower too by this point but the fools didn't.
Do agree on the name, goddamn retarded. I still recall so many stories, some of them personal, going into stores from Best Buy to places like Meijer/Target and seeing some doofus employee even being confused saying they thought it was an expensive add-on controller for the Wii and the blue games were boxed up as such to show it worked just on that. Or other people, non-workers thinking much the same, that it was just a revision of the Wii, not a new device, so they blew it off as $350 was too damn much for an accessory. They screwed themselves on that one 100%.