Gearbox President: Wii U Controller Best Nintendo Controller for FPS

<p>Randy Pitchford&comma; President of Gearbox Software&comma; is in the minority that when it comes to the Wii U&period; He has stated that the Wii U is the best controller for first-person shooters from Nintendo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nintendo’s Wii U is going to come out soon&comma; and we’re really excited about this platform because when we got briefed on it&comma; and I got to play with it and got my hands on the controls&comma; I was like &OpenCurlyQuote;Wow&comma; this is the best controller I’ve ever had from Nintendo for a hardcore first-person shooter&comma;’” Pitchford said in a <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;aliens-colonial-marines-2012&sol;videos&sol;aliens-colonial-marines-interview-with-randy-pitchford-6377485&sol;">GameSpot<&sol;a> interview&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Of all the controllers&comma; forget about the Wii U or the Wii&comma; it’s the best shooter controller I’ve ever played with&period; So we’re really excited the platform is coming&comma; and we’re really excited we’ll bring our game to it&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He continues&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Wii U is a next-generation system&comma; it is coming now it isn’t even out yet and we’ve had our 360s and PS3s for a while so it’s natural that it’s a very powerful system&period; It is up to Nintendo to talk about their system and they haven’t revealed all of the details yet&comma; but so far we’ve been thrilled with it&period; It’s pretty clear to us that the best looking console version of Aliens&colon; Colonial Marines is going to be on Wii U&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It does have the added advantage of this new controller&comma; which has a touch screen built into it&comma; and that gives us some interface options that are just not possible on the other platforms&period; The most obvious one of course is a motion tracker&comma; so I’m playing the game and maybe I’m going through one of the suspenseful sections&period; All of a sudden I realize sound is actually coming from the controller&comma; I look down and it’s a motion tracker in my hand&period; It’s motion sensitive too&comma; so I can scan the room by moving the controller&period; It’s pretty cool&comma; and just one of many uses of this device&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Aliens&colon; Colonial Marines will release for Wii U later this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendo-universe&period;co&period;uk&sol;2012&sol;05&sol;21&sol;pitchford-wii-u-best-shooter-controller-ever-played&sol;">Nintendo Universe<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;