I'm surprised people don't like playing with a pad, I personally prefer having a pad to play with the keyboard just to chat with... unless you mean the awkwardness stemming from chatting on the pad?

Aside from that, when Yoshi said it would be the same as playing the game on maximum settings does he mean as it is now and that we will be getting a graphical update via DX11 or that it will be the same as the updated graphics version... this is what I really want to know.