Nintendo shows cardboard-made Wii U GamePad mockup
In making the Wii U GamePad, the development team had to start from somewhere. There was a period of time when the controller was in a very early state and hadn’t come together, so Miiverse UI designer Kazuyuki Motoyama made a cardboard mockup model.
One of the points of the model was to see how the GamePad would feel in a person’s hands. It features a lid, a grip on the back, and you can even insert pieces of paper in the top for a different display.
In the latest Iwata Asks, Motoyama said that in the middle of the night, he “cut pieces of cardboard and glued them together.”
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