Destructoid editor Jonathan Holmes is confident with his claim that the Wii U GamePad is not a tablet. Unlike a typical tablet, the Wii U GamePad has several buttons, a resistive touchscreen, two analog sticks, and is designed specifically for gaming. Holmes says that if the Wii U GamePad is a tablet, then so are the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita. Is the Wii U GamePad a tablet or an entirely different device?
Who cares
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It doesn’t matter if the uPad is a tablet or not. The Wii U will be an amazing console.
It’s called the Wii U Gamepad, unless you were shortening it then my bad.
i like calling it a uPad. I also like calling the Wii remote an Wiimote. They are easer to type and in my opinion, sound better.
And the console as the U, as opposed to Wii U.
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i see that there heads are out of there ass finally.
I cares! >:V
nope, its not a tablet. its a controller.
nope.svg not just a controller.
It has a name U know!
It’s Nintendo! It can do (or be) anything!
It’s a tablet-controller.
If its a tablet, it’s gunna be a hard one to swallow but will be damn good for you!
Take with food.
Be thankful it isn’t a suppository…. XD
Yep and stars will have U glowim and poppin mushroom fuckin shit up. Or would you rather have an Apple
MyNintendoNews, have I ever told you that a lot of your articles are quite redundant?
Any better sites for Nintendo news then?
An infinite amount of them actually. This is perhaps the worst of them all.
And your favorite.
If this site is so bad, then why are you on it? You are only helping Sickr by giving him hits.
same with your ass!
Is someone butthurt? Aww. You’ll get over the fact you’re not the only person on this site soon.
This site is better than those. MyNintendoNews also has less advertisements and takes less memory to load.
I send people to this site for news.
I love MyNintendoNews for the fact that they find news so fast compared to the others :D But then they post stupid articles like this one so I treat them equally with the others.
Fair enough. I don’t agree the article is stupid, but I respect your opinion.
I totally respect your opinion too good sir :) If only all commenters were like you :D
Lol where’d my avatar go haha
Thats what i hate about nintendo3dsblogand wiiublog lol. But seriously h8rs, all nintendo sites have editorials just like this one to establish debates and hearty conversations
well i came here for some exclusive Nintendo news, other than that it the same with the other site i go there too for some news that its not here or there; pretty much i like this site as well the sites U mention.
I have ad block so yeah i don’t know what your talking about.
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Get N or get out!
Nintendo Gamer isn’t as in depth but over all, is one of the best Nintendo News sites.
Ign for Nintendo News? Ha
nintendo everything got my computer a virus. Nintendo 3ds blog + wii u blog barely gets updates, suck my ass
Why are you here if you think the articles are redundant? Go somewhere else you like better.
I love this blog.
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Agreed.
It is not a tablet, its a controller.
It’s a gamepad
For me, just because it has a touchscreen, that doesn’t make an artifact a tablet. Besides, tablets don’t have buttons and control sticks. I’m not sure if they have accelerometers and gyroscopes…
An artifact? What do you mean by that, exactly?
Sorry, English isn’t my native language, so I sometimes have problems expressing myself.
I tried to say that any piece of hardware that has a touchscreen isn’t a tablet.
*Isn’t necessarily a tablet.
Most tablets do have accelerometers, cameras, light sensors, proximity sensors, etc. So we can rule those out as being a significant difference. It’s the fact that the Gamepad has most of the buttons associated with a standard controller (and no CPU or GPU of its own) that distinguishes the Gamepad from a tablet.
Thanks for the info! :D
And if it is?
Is this REALLY a question??? /sigh
I read this in Caius Ballad’s voice.
that is actually a good argument, so I suppose unless you are willing to call the vita a tablet then the gamepad is not one.
Honestly, is this even something that needs to be posted?
I’m glad they posted it. What? Your blog fail so you have to micro manage this one?
what the actual fuck this is a topic?
Whatever it is, more I see pictures of it, more I want to play with it. How they call it I can’t care less.
My dick’s a tablet.
You must have a good time playing with it….
It’s not a tablet PC is a tablet controller. It’s clear from articles like this that people don’t know what to make of the Wii U GamePad. It’s pretty much just a controller with a screen, at least on the surface. Is that so hard to understand?
Looks like this is something certain people will have to get their hands on to understand. Leave luck to heaven.
The Wii U GamePad is definitely not a tablet.
A tablet is this small little device with a fancy pen that I have attached to my Mac so I can animate and draw stuff.
lol Not that kind of tablet. They’re talking about tablets like iPad. Silly mistake, but no biggie. :)
Is this a real story? You gotta be kidding me right? Everybody knows its not a tablet!
I did not know.
Neither did I. Until the WiiU is released, and in my hands, I want to read EVERYTHING written on it. :D
Why the fuck is this even posted, Alba? It’s too frickin obvious, it’s a CONTROLLER.
I think Alba may be a little bored today ;)
What if Minecraft team Mojang Became part of Nintendo?
I just wish Minecraft would be on Wii U. The GAMEPAD could be used for Inventory, Crafting, Map, and Life/Hunger/Air/Experience Bar, show where the sun and moon is in the sky, and pull up the menu. But sadly they are partnered with Microsoft.
They’re not partnered with microsoft actually…. and minecraft’s 360 port wasn’t made by Mojang, right?
I thought they could only put it on Xbox or something like that cause Microsoft likes to pay people to ruin stuff.
i fucking hate tablets its made for the remedial its nothing but a dumb down computer that cant really do shit but play overpriced crapped out unreliable software
and no its no where near a tablet its a controller with a touchscreen and i could speak about it cause i played with the wii-u for 2 hours.and it has better gameplay and garphics than its competition ps3 and xbox360
I got to play it as well!
Everyone hating on Nintendo are going to shit bricks when they get their hands on it.
Nintendo has changed the game again.
yes they did i agree 100%
How about both?
Resistive touchscreen + buttons + the fact that it’s dependent on a box to be used ≠ tablet, and that’s that.
this guy has always been pretty logical .
Problem is people think its a rip of the tablets out their and that it offer nothing better so its an important topic to fix confusion
Why are people complaining about this article being posted? I like to read everything I can on WiiU
I’ve never seen this before, and was glad it was posted.
Seriously, if there are other Nintendo sites that are better, what the fuck are you doing here wasting your time?
I think people are jealous of Sickr and Alba’s success. It’s obvious the are trying to sabotage the readers perspective of this blog.
This is a GREAT site. I’m here everyday, and love everything except the critical comments and trolls.
Somedays I just read the articles and don ‘t bother with the comments.
Funny how the jealous people lovd to criticize and complain, yet they always come back for more.
Well said. That’s the story of the Internet. -_-
The Wii U GamePad is the Wii U Pro Controller with a big f***ing screen.
Case closed.
Yeah, wtf are people complaining about?
This site is the bomberman.
It’s every thing that you want it to be!
It’s Nintendo, it does everything!
Wait a second, that sounds like nintendoeverything.com!
U got it.
It’s a controller, no doubt. It has the functionality of a tablet (the touchscreen), but it’s not a tablet. First and foremost it’s a controller.
Is the DS like a tablet cause it has a (touchscreen)?
What’s your point?
I do believe it is officially called the Wii U Gamepad soooo… I’m going to have to say its a gamepad (or controller if you want considering that is what it is, a CONTROLLER (with a touchscreen).
What i Want is the Nintendo WiiU pad taken to its highest level. So bring on the games and funtions and forget about the Vita is dying on its own .
Why can’t it be both?
not possible with all games
It’ll be able to do certain things tablets can, but its not one
it’s not a tablet but it shouldn’t matter at all what you call it
Fuck a tablet they suck can never play Mario, Zelda God of War or any good shit on them. Angry birds copied off the mini game from Mario 64.
gamepad is a gamepad
I’d say the Wii U’s GamePad is NOT a tablet, but it does have a built in tablet screen.
C. Cook
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:46:58 +0000 To: corey.wa95@hotmail.com
The argument on saying that the Wii U GamePad isn’t a tablet because of the buttons and what not is actually incorrect. Razer, that company that makes cool stuff for the PC is making a tablet device that actually has buttons and two analog sticks.
Though what really defines a Table PC is that it can be taken anywhere without the need for internet connection but since the Wii U GamePad needs the Wii U console to run I think its more of a controller than a tablet PC
No shit
1. comment was spot on.. who cares x_x
also a tablet is for general computing, not for gaming alone
end of story
Wii U GamePad isn’t only for gaming. You fail to remember Miiverse.
Short answer. No long answer. Nooooooooooooooooooooo
It’s a Hybrid. THE END
Stupid people…always one way or the other, most of the times it’s a MIX!
Really? THIS is what we’re debating, now? Not Mario or Sonic, Sony or Nintendo or Microsoft, or even Mac or PC…. but THIS!? -_- You guys must really be in anticipation of the console. Anyway, I say that is could be a tablet, a controller, both, or something else, entirely. It doesn’t really matter either way. All that matters is what the game publishers will be able to do with this remarkable piece of hardware.
Ok, I should clarify my thoughts on this: GamePad can be considered anything from tablet to controller to hybrid, but it’s really just something new or, to use Nintendo’s description from the Pre-E3 Nintendo Direct, “something unique.” It can be like a tablet or like a plain controller, but it REALLY is just something completely different. In other words: Nintendo’s changed gaming as we know it, again!
It’s not a tablet, it is a tablet controller mainly because of the form factor. Tablet there being an adjective.
It’s not a tablet – it is a gaming device!
Of course it isn’t a tablet. For starters it doesn’t work without the Wii U so it’s not portable, and as it only streams data from the console it probably doesn’t have all the components that would make it a computer. Simply having a touch screen isn’t really enough to call it a tablet…
It’s not a tablet, it’s a video game controller, much like the 3DS and Vita are handheld gaming devices and not tablets.
Tablet-controller.
It’s pretty much a tablet constructed within, with buttons and analogs. It’s built for gaming purposes only and functions primarily with the Wii U system as it’s main controller option.
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