News Article  Poll: How Important is Dual / Second Screen
Gaming?  Posted by Thomas Whitehead  A major part of Nintendo's
strategy  Yesterday brought us some interesting comments from
Ubisoft Managing Director Nicolas Rioux, who spoke about the
potential prominence of "second screen" gaming, even going so
far as to praise the Wii U as an innovative first step. As we
observed in that article, it'd be a nasty piece of irony if
technical considerations led to third-parties utilising these
ideas on rival systems and not Wii U, especially as Nintendo's
system is the only hardware with that second screen included in
the box.  It's also another example, perhaps, of Nintendo
recognising and pursuing a trend before others pick up on its
potential. When the Wii U was unveiled some dismissed it as a
enormous DS, which was an oversimplification of what it's all
about. Big-name developers questioned whether gamers would want
to be looking from the TV to a secondary screen, and whether it
would cause a disconnect damaging