Scott Moffitt, the VP of sales and marketing for Nintendo America admits that it will take hands-on experience for gamers to get to grips with the console.
Nintendo failed to impress with their E3 media presentation and left everyone slightly concerned as to what direction the console was aiming to take for the Nintendo Wii U. It showed off a number of titles aimed at casual gamers and also showed off Batman: Arkham City Armoured Edition and ZombiU, which was aimed at the core gaming segment.
It seems as if gamers cannot get their heads around the fact that the Wii U is not a Wii, in the sense that it does not attempt to be focused on just the casual gamer market but rather is looking to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Sony for the core gamer market as well.
That was one message that Nintendo did try to get across but could not and according to Scott Moffitt, it was down to the fact that the demonstration of the Wii U’s capabilities was not as effective or eye catching as that of the Wii.
He said, “It’s confusing relative to the Wi,” before comparing it to how the Wii stole the show all those years ago with its tech demo, “With motion control gaming, when you saw Mr. Iwata and Reggie stand up and swing a motion controller, it brought it to life immediately.”
However, the Nintendo executive admits that “With a second screen controller, you need to see what’s on the second screen, so by nature it’s a more complex system. It’s less visually easy to understand.”
There was some cool tech shown off during the press conference including the feature in Ubisoft’s upcoming zombie survival first-person shooter, ZombiU, which used the controller’s camera to zombify the gamer in real time.
Yet Nintendo knows it has to pull of more than a few tricks in order to convince gamers and has to provide them with unique experiences that gamers can then associate with the Wii U, much like they did with the Wii. It seems that Scott Moffitt’s idea of making that happen is to get the console in the hands of the gamer for them to try it out themselves.
He said, “As for how we’re planning to make it clear that it’s a new system: well, we want to get it in people’s hands.”
Analysts predict that the Wii U may very well be released this year and that too before Christmas or early next year at the maximum as the console will look to put some distance between itself and its competitors, who surprisingly have remained tight-lipped over their next generation consoles.
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