With the recent announcement of the
Wii U at E3 there has been some confusion as to the rather novel tablet/main controller. We already knew that you can connect all of your original Wii hardware, specifically Wii Remotes and the like, to Nintendo's next-gen console, but it was a bit ambiguous as to how many of the tablet-like controllers could be purchased and used on a single console.
According to an article at
next-gen.biz, you will not be able to purchase the newfangled Wii U controller separately. This means that Wii U owners will be limited to local multiplayer by supplementing the tablet-style controller with Wii Remotes. The jury is still out on whether Wii U owners can synchronise their controllers to other Wii U consoles. But even if this is possible, at $600 for a new console, that’s one hell of a mark-up if you only wanted a second controller.
Posted 09:23am 10/6/11
I hope by the time they release the new console, they have bumped up the hardware to support two. It seems a little un-Wii (we) to not permit at least two players to both use the new controller and get the full experience from the new console.
Posted 09:27am 10/6/11
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Posted 12:20pm 10/6/11