Official "GameCube" Controllers Coming for Smash Bros. Wii U

Alright, I thought so :)

Well, yeah, my original question was indeed why that company who makes this controller or nintendo would require another controller to be able to use it.

Okay, it's cheaper. But it's also more cumbersome that way. Why connect two controllers to your wiiu, to play just one, when there is a wireless connection in place there that allows you to connect the one you want.

But I've already said this before. I see you argument, but for me as a Wii U owner this controller is absolutely pointless to me. I only hook up my wiimote when I want to play Wii games, because it's necessary. I'm not going to do so to play Wii U games.

It's not "my argument" It's just why I think Nintendo is doing it lol. I think this entire thing is stupid as hell. This shouldn't even be a thing. Nintendo should just move on and force people to use the Pro controller or Wii Mote. instead of being stuck in the past because a few people who are afraid of change or (and the the possibility for improvement.) The smash zealots should just have to just deal with it.

Then we think the same way about this.

But it's not a big deal to me anymore. I was expecting a controller that looked like this lol:

The original GC controller is not good at all. It basically works quite well for a few genres (Third person shooters particularly) but certainly no more than contemporary rivals and compared to the modern standard fails completely. But then you have any game which requires anything resembling an even spread of buttons like a fighting game or a sports title and it's useless. That's without mentioning how cheap it felt or those awful triggers. One big "A" button and the rest felt like menu buttons. I certainly wouldn't be copying it.

But true to form, Nintendo have done the following:

1. Hinted a current design is inspired by the past to prey upon the nostalgia driven fans

2. Released a controller with unnecessary gimmicks which only make things worse, in this case having an uneven controller. They have the pro controller for this crap, they used tracing paper on an xbox pad and it works better.

And you still have to plug it into a wii mote by the looks of it.

@darkspineslayer said:

Don't get too hype folks

http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=228699

What in the holy shit **** is that?

I'm not a big fan of the Gamecube controller, but it would've surely been a money printer for Nintendo with the WiiU.

This just looks like some deformed hybrid Sega/Nintendo controller experiment that escaped from the Nintendo HQ basement. Who gave this shit the green light? Why?

Just kidding btw, I know it's a cyborg guitar condom.

That's nice. The Gamecube had one of the best controllers ever.

@darkspineslayer said:

Don't get too hype folks

http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=228699

Oh.

Well. That's, uh...

Just get a Pro controller already.

These will still be tethered to a Wiimote, and we all know how fast those nom batteries.

Gamecube controller was awful.

So I'll have to rest the Wii Remote on my lap? **** that, I'll just use the Pro Controller.

They need to make consoles so they can keep designing 2d platformers?

Unless you mean design philosophy in input device. Which would be hilarious, considering how hilariously underutilized the gamepad is.

They do now.

Barely, not significant enough to warrant a new console purchase.

They play the same. They make (usually fund, but still) some great new IPs. They are almost always on their handhelds. The ones they put on their home consoles are rare in quantity and sale bad.

There's one 2d platformer on wiiu? Nintendo making their own hardware gives them the freedom to have all their own release schedules for their games.

Unfortunately I do not know how nintendos financials work so I can't comment on why the gamepad is underutilized. If I had to guess I'd say that wiiu was in R&D for a long time, while wii was still considered hot. Then over time Nintendo realized that the wii was actually detrimental to the nintendo name brand. So now there's a device that was near completion with a lot of money already in the project. Scrapping the project would put nintendo out of the picture and perhaps there was a fear of the nintendo name fading into the past....anyways, wiiu does have a slightly unfocused life. Strangely enough there is a lot of core nintendo gameplay on the system.

The controller looks like it was mauled.

there will never be something wrong with options. if debs don't like something they don't have to use it. same thing with consumers. its a choice