Nintendo: Hey everyone look, its a new thing you can play the same 3 games on and looks like a Happy Meal toy!
Finally someone is calling bullexcrement on them.
I resisted a joke of "Maybe they should stick to what they do best: making the same game 12 times."
Unwieldy controller is an understatement.
Reminds me of this piece of junk:
Which is a controller for this:
Don't be dissing on the Jaguar!
... Okay, yeah... That controller was horrid. But it's the Jaguar man!
On the multiple games discussion. Mass Effect can't really be thrown in on that, it's a story told through. I hesitate to put God of War/Gears of war on that as well for the same reason (even if I do dislike the games personally). The various battlefields/call of duty's are completely guilty of making the same game over and over again just like Mario, but I really feel that the trilogies named don't really belong.
Halo even is completing a story for 1/2/3, the additional they keep bringing on are guilty of the make the same thing over again I think but the core there doesn't count to me.
Also don't get me wrong: There are plenty of good original titles for Nintendo consoles, but Nintendo themselves don't seem to make many of them. The problem in my eye is that most of their front runners are not designed to be story driven. They are arcade games because that's where the whole thing started.
But my real problem with this new console is that abomination of a controller. That's just painful. A 6inch 200dpi screen is great in a handheld, but who is going to want to use that when they've got a 40" TV in front of them like 90% of their market will? The tech behind pulling off that screen setup is going to kill their price point also.