Oh wow, smartphone apps! wa-wa-wait... Aren't smartphone apps for, ummm.... smartphones? The Gamepad has resistive touchscreen, so you have to use a stylus. Now, many smartphone apps, even Fruit Ninja, require multi-touch. Oh wow, imagine holding 3 styli in your hands... The Wii U is a fail. I am 12, so I guess I am kind of its target audience, but I would never buy it. I have a PSP and a tablet.. No thanks, I don't want it to hook up to my TV...
Oh wow... So I am 12 and when I was 7, every boy except me in my class had a PSP with GTA Liberty City and Vice City Stories. We used the cheats to get the katana. In LC, if you're not familiar, when you hit someone with a katana, his head flies away and a stream of blood flows from the victim's head. I got my PSP and did it forever, we all though it was SO much fun! I never, not once realized that I was not the target audience of the game. On a friend's Xbox 360, I played Black Ops 2 multiplayer, and, honestly, the blood looks so cartoonish. I once played a game on my PC, forgot its name, and you had to use a hammer to crack a person's skull. The game was boring, so I deleted it. The likes of www.commonsensemedia.org make video game violence seem like something that will disturb a child forever. Not true.
@michaelrjohnson @hrst1 yes, but have you done a comparison of the graphics and stuff? like I played FIFA 11 on PSP and DS and the PSP looked 1000000000 times better. They are only successful because some parents decide 3 year olds need a console to play on. In my 2nd grade class, I was the only boy without a PSP, nobody had a DS, and I was so jealous of GTA and FIFA... but that Christmas I got it with GTA and FIFA and Harry Potter, and it was like a dream come true. I don't need a touchscreen and I don't need two screens, but oh well people do
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