Topic: "Dual Gamepad Experiences" E3 2012

Remember back in E3 2012? When they basically straight up said there would be dual gamepad experiences but they will only talk about single gamepad experiences at that particular E3? What happened to those? Are they coming alongside the Wii Vitality Sensor in 20XX?

With how poor the Wii U is doing and such a negative reception towards the GamePad, I think they decided to not put money towards that development and instead just focus on selling their current hardware set up.

of course. those will be the killer-gimmicks for the NX

Pretty much this. As for Vitality Sensor either the technology wasn't/isn't ready or it didn't add to games in a meaningful way. Same could be said for the gamepad. The only thing that has going for it is practical application like maps, inventory management, and motion controls(which most "gamers" hate).

It's coming with Mother 3 and Half-Life 3

And The Last Guardian.......

Oh wait.

You know, after getting Earthbound Beginnings, I wouldn't put Mother 3 on that list. I think we'll be getting that rather soon. After all, Nintendo DEFINITELY knows it's wanted.

I always thought that they simply stated it was possible for the console to support up to two gamepads and not that their were any games promised that would actually do it.

Aren't they still trying to sell all of the Wii U stock that they initially made? Nintendo probably just can't justify creating games that do that.

Check back to E3 2012. Reggie clearly says that there are dual gamepad experiences on the way.

I am pretty sure he did say that too, but its probably not even a thought now. With the NX announced they are going to be concentrating on that now rather then the Wii U. Also most third parties have said that they found designing games around the game pad a big reason for not supporting the Wii U so if they didn't like designing games for one game pad they probably arent going to for a dual setup.

So yeah I wont expect it anytime soon if at all. Who knows maybe if the NX has some sort of gamepad/remote play type of thing then maybe they might look back at it then.

Hey guys Zelda U is totes coming out in 2015!

http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/additional-wii-u-gamepads...
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/18/miyamoto-on-the-potent...

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/05/nintendo-wii-vitality-sens...

'Research? What's that? Does it taste like candy?'

Personally, if they have any less than tri-gamepad experiences I'll be let down. What else can cause rich people to look that stupid?

Hey, with The Last Guardian, FFVII remake, and Shenmue 3 all announced, I don't have much to work with.

I knew the Vitality Sensore was dead. I remember reading a NL article on that.

The one where Reggie said there would be no 2 gamepad games at launch windows says nothing, just that there wouldn't be any during the launch window.

The 2014 one however... Yeah... we got punked by Nintendo... again.

Touche. But we can all accept that it'll probably all happen before Gaben learns to count to 3.

Not really. They made it very clear back then that they thought they could do it, but when they actually tried to impliment it they discovered that it didn't work. Same with the Wii Vitality sensor. Sometimes new things don't work as well in theory as they do in practice, and they have to be tweaked or scrapped. That's just the nature of the business.

They couldn't even convince people that one gamepad was needed, much less two. Aside from that, the processing power to stream to two gamepads and a television screen probably would have made games look awful. I mean, Hyrule Warriors takes a significant hit with just one. Not only that, but gamepads are probably still pretty expensive. Couple all of that together and it's pretty obvious why Nintendo decided to just not even bother.