I was pretty disappointed by Nintendo's E3 presentation, so to cheer me up I went looking for the old threads from when the Wii was first announced and it's pretty much the same thing: "what the fuck is this", "this will never sell", "the name is ridiculous", "this will be Nintendo's last console" (which they've been saying since the GameCube).
If anything, I think Nintendo focused too little on the motion control: at first they had incredibly fun stuff like Wii Sports or Wario Ware and games that are unthinkable in any other console like Mario Galaxy, but by the end all their best games required you to either turn the remote around and use it like a regular pad or simply hook up the classic controller. There was a lot of potential there but they ran out of ideas pretty fast. One thing I would have liked to see more of is point and click adventure games like Zack & Wiki, since that's a genre that seems perfectly suited for the Wii. I think Zack & Wiki is the only one they did.
So what worries me now is that they seem to downplaying the pad right away in an attempt to cater to "hardcore gamers" who probably won't be interested in the console anyway. Like in Arkham Asylum, now you can choose the weapons from the pad screen... but isn't that something you could do with a regular control anyway? Same thing with ZombiU, it looks like a PS3 game with different controls. Fuck that shit, give me something no other console can do. That's the point.
I was gonna buy the Wii U at launch, but if all they have to offer right now are remakes of space marines games and games like New Super Mario U that they could have done in Wii anyway, then I'll just wait until they show us what they can do with Mario Kart and Smash Bros and stuff like that. The only upside to Nintendo bombing the E3, I think, is that the other guys won't rush to copy them this time and that'll probably help Nintendo in the long run.
