Activision Apparently Forced Nintendo To Release Wii U Pro Controller

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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has claimed that Wii U’s Pro Controller was only created after Activision threatened to leave Call of Duty off the machine unless it has a traditional input method.

“I think that essentially this is a solution in search of a problem,” Pachter said, speaking at Develop in the UK last week, as reported by Edge.

“I mean, somebody had an idea – ‘let’s make the controller a tablet’ – and there aren’t many games that are going to take advantage of that. Activision never said anything to me, but I know that [for] big games like Call Of Duty they said, ‘No, we’re not putting it on there if you don’t give us a conventional controller’. So they gave in.”

Nintendo confirmed the Pro Controller – a traditional format controller in the model of 360′s pad – at E3 this year.

Pachter went on to say that Wii U as a concept is likely to fail.

“I don’t think they suck – I just think that they really believe that, ‘If we’re still novel, everything we do will work’. This isn’t going to work,” he said.

“Hardcore gamers will buy them; hardcore Nintendo fanboys will buy it. They could put out a piece of cardboard and say that it’ll play Mario and they’ll buy it.”

Wii U releases this year.

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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2012/07/16/acti-forced-nintendo-to-create-wii-u-pro-controller-with-cod-threat-pachter/

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FixPosted:

iMazur Why is there a controller for a handheld console.....?


the wii u is nintendo s next tv console not hand held

MazurPosted:

Why is there a controller for a handheld console.....?

Third_EyePosted:

DLT It would probably be too much work for them. They probably design the game for one console the port it too all the others and make a few tweaks. Having to reprogram the controls would be way too much work for them.


That's actually a pretty intelligent thought. I just thought that they want people to be comfortable playing and threaten Nintendo.

ResoPosted:

A Controller will actually give a lot of improvements so we won't be stuck with some stupid method of playing shooter games and such.

FrogPosted:

OG- Nintendo used to be the best :( Now it's all about Microsoft and Sony


Yeah I miss the days of Nintendo! =/

OG-Posted:

Nintendo used to be the best :( Now it's all about Microsoft and Sony

DLTPosted:

It would probably be too much work for them. They probably design the game for one console the port it too all the others and make a few tweaks. Having to reprogram the controls would be way too much work for them.

BritishColumbiaPosted:

Easier to make a CoD game!

SovietRussiaPosted:

Looks pretty cool. But since the Wii U is a hand held it doesn't make too much sense.

-DNAPosted:

Yea nice controller. Proberly for shooting games and stuff like that.