SleepyGuyy

I dont like the name too much myself, but i see why it was chosen and the benifits to it. Nintendo seems to be the only modern  gaming company that changes the name of their console. The playstation is a series, the Xbox is a series, but because Nintendo is so well know, they dont need to brand themselves through the name of the console. It could say "Super Ultra Box 'O' Entertainment ......... by nintendo. Everyone would buy it (well ok not everyone). But with the casual gaming audience, although the Nintendo name seems to be recognizable now, they aren't a gaming focused audience... you'll need to remind them... so i see the added benifit in the name WiiU.

The WiiU is very powerful right now. Nintendo needed to pick cheaper and more efficient hardware with the Wii because they needed to attract an audience that was not as passionate about games. Now that that audience knows Nintendo they're more willing to pay more. Also the WiiU is able to (not planned yet but the specs say) run several displays no problem, which means is can do lots at once (not as much as a high-end computer, but the consoles never match a high-end computer, they have to be mass marketed). The Xbox was well known for its RAM, it could do lots of stuff and had 3 cores in it (i think) aswell, this allowed for great graphics and framerate along with cross-game chat (something i wish my ps3 had). And as for the PS3, it has 1 core with 6 mini-cores (not as much RAM though) allowing each core to do an individual job (ie, lighting, polygons, sounds, input) and this let the PS3 do many thing. Now for a computer to be able to proccess several perspectives means its gotta be a step up from this generation. Sure its the same HD as PS3 (1080p), probably looks similar too, but what it can do should allow for a massive experience, A multiplayer experience, and a personal experience like no other. Nintendo is also stepping up online (hopfully integrating many things, or at least allow a way to improve it in many ways). This is no gimmick, its a serious step for Nintendo (they have learned over the past few years) and we can't be sure right now,  but i think they will deliver.

My favorite game that nobody else played that i know (except when i brought it to my friends' house) is Metal Arms: Glitch in the System.
It was a third person shooter in which you played a mining robot found in the ground by other mining robots during a war of sorts. You're a little different than the other robots and lead them to survival and victory. But i never liked the single player, the game broke or something and i could never beat the first boss. The splitscreen however was pretty fun. There's a pretty good assortment of guns (sawblade shooter, exploding arrows, machine gun, Chargable laser, Shotgun, rockets,..) but the real fun came in these robots just standing around the level. You could go up behind them, switch to a tether gun and shoot a special thing on thier back, your guy would fall apart and you'd now control this robot until it got killed. These robots had special abilities like one had a pulse jetpack and could glide into people. And there were emp grenades that you could use to knock people out of the bots and even make the bots your slave. Even better you can set a round so that the bots come alive at the begining of the game and hunt you down! (sorta hoard mode except they didnt get progressivly harder)
Most people didnt play it because they never printed alot of discs, i think the studio that made the game (Swingin apes.... i think) was bought out and therefore there will never be a sequel...

you make a fine counter-point, alas i have been bested. Nintendo should think about everyone's wants for the console (like my multiple screened controllers support) and your ideas best fits that ... Good day to you Sir.

Mario was centered around platforming skills and reflexes (sorta) and was turned into an RPG on SNES, it continued as Paper mario (again... sorta), if you make mario an RPG, you could make Zelda an RPG, heck if you can make those RPG's you could make a DonkeyKong Rythm game, or Metroid Pinball, or Yoshi puzzle game, or Starfox Third person shooter, or Zelda sidescrolling platformer, or a Kid Icarus Card game, or a puzzling adventure game inspired by miamoto's garden, or mash everything into a fighting game centered around pinball mechanics.  (if you didnt catch that, all of those were made), the point is a Paper Zelda would be one of the least ridiculous things to come out of Nintendo, and is possible but not ground breaking. still neat though.

If only this ranking system was used in the military... awesome.