This morning we ran a roundup of clips from Late Night with Jimmy Fallonās big post-E3 āVideo Game Week,ā highlighted by his hands-on time with the Wii U. Fallonās opening monologue, however, is where the entertainment is, really.
āThis is the new system. You add it to your Wii or you donāt even need to use the Wii. Do you need to use the Wii?ā he rambles. āYou can just use it on your own, but you can also use it with the Wii.ā
Perhaps that explains why Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America, was so specific in his on-camera segment. āThis is the Wii U. Right?ā says Fils-Aime. āThis entire package, the console and really what makes it different is this new controller.ā You can almost see him arching his eyebrows at Fallon off-camera.
Nintendo keeps having this problem with the Wii U. Not a week after its unveiling at E3 2011, company president Satoru Iwata already regretted its presentation, which seemed to emphasized the controller to the exclusion of the console, perhaps leading some not to see it as an entirely new system.
https://lastchance.cc/nintendos-president-already-has-some-wii-u-regrets-5810645%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
But thatās the risk you run when you make the controller the face of the system, not the hardware itself, as Shigeru Miyamoto said when explaining why the Wii U wonāt stand upright. The consoleās designers didnāt include a stand because they wanted to differentiate it from the upright Wii. However, āThe Wii U GamePad is really the face of the system,ā Miyamoto told Stephen Totilo, āwhereas, with the Wii system, we had really designed it so that that system itself really stood out when you looked at it.ā
https://lastchance.cc/why-the-wii-u-literally-cant-stand-up-5916218%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
