Nintendo have made their aims clear on how they would prefer to see the upcoming console Nintendo Wii U being used by consumers, suggesting that the console is geared more towards ?PSP? than ?PS3?.
Revealing their frustration at the fact that home consoles are a ?parasite? on TV screens, Nintendo executives have recommended that the Wii U?s features will be perfect to switch between handheld and regular TV connections seamlessly, with whatever is?happening on the console (including online video through services such as Netflix and YouTube) able to be viewed on one or both screens.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced his?opinion on the?industry, and the potential of the new console, in a company Q&A session recently, as he said: ?I am not sure this is an appropriate expression, but video game consoles have long been ?parasites? of TV sets at home. In other words, game consoles have used TV sets in a family instead of being equipped with their own screen. However, the Wii U will be the first console free from TV sets, in which you can play the Wii U while someone else is watching TV or you yourself can watch TV while using the Wii U. As you can experience deeper entertainment with both the Wii U GamePad and the TV screen, we would like to enrich it but, at the same time, we hope to furnish it with games you can enjoy only with the Wii U GamePad.?
Nintendo had previously revealed similar plans last month at the E3 games show, where company representative?Shigeru Miyamoto had stated?what he wants to see on the console: ?With Wii U, really the hope is the screen on the Wii U game pad is the screen people will go to first in the living room. If you think about a device that is the screen people go to first in the living room and the things it can do, it becomes sort of this window, whether it?s social or a bulletin board where you can read messages from the family or whether it?s a channel guide or something or you can do whether it?s gaming or Internet or video, that type of experience is something you don?t understand the benefit of until you really start to see that take form in the house.?
At the Q&A session, Iwata added of the ways that TV sets could be used by the console for video: ?Furthermore, the Wii U can change the way you use the TV set in your living room, although the Wii U is a video game system in its nature and this is just an added component. More specifically, there are currently many videos on the Internet, many of which are very interesting and suitable for family entertainment. You have seen them by PC, smartphones or tablets, but with the Wii U you can search a good movie on the Wii U GamePad, tell everyone there to see it and easily move it to the TV screen. In this way, a video-sharing website can be a great form of entertainment.
In addition, the Wii U can make it easier to use video-on-demand services, where you can enjoy films and TV programs through the Internet and which are more popular overseas than in Japan. Not only by competing with other platforms only in regard to the machines? spec. figures but proposing various ways of using the Wii U, we would like to create a future so even family members who have never touched any video game systems will consider the Wii U something that is convenient to use so that we can maintain its competitiveness for a long time.?
While the console is set to have a very unique selling point with its fully-integrated second-screen, are Nintendo?s partial dismissal of the first screen?during interviews?going to be a move which sets back the Wii U?s prospects?
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