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Is the PS4 Making the Same Mistakes as the Wii U?

As of now the only two 100 percent confirmed next-gen consoles are Sony’s PS4 and Nintendo’s Wii U. These two consoles are surly competing against one another although the big battle between Microsoft and Sony has yet to begin. It can be said that Nintendo has been making some huge mistakes over the past few years with their Wii and Wii U consoles. After a huge press conference confirming the PS4 is on its way, players immediately started comparing the two confirmed consoles. With the thought of the Wii U and how many mistakes have been made clear to the gaming community gamers are beginning to wonder if the PS4 will follow in its footsteps.

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ThatXboxGuy4076d ago

No.

Carry on folks, nothing to read here.

Saigon4076d ago

Granted the author did say 'No', but this title was a gimmick to get hits. Other than the ambiguous title, this article was a good read, pointed good points to why the Wii U is not living up to its potential and why the PS4 potential is growing. In my honest opinion, I believe the biggest mistake with the Wii U is the name itself. Should have called it something else to distinguish the systems.

theBAWSE4076d ago

Story quality wtf like this website NO

user39158004076d ago

Not the same for sure, just nearly identical, Are they twins?

ElectricKaibutsu4076d ago

From the article: "Now we ask ourselves, is Sony making these same mistakes with the PS4? The answer is a sure fire… NO! Sony is thankfully doing everything right so far with the announcements they have made regarding their upcoming console, the PS4."

LOL. Oh, it's one of these articles. Couldn't the author just put that line in the title?

Saigon4075d ago

@ElectricKaibutsu

Yeah that title was a little ridiculous...it was a hit factor.

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kingmushroom4076d ago

don't give the website hits its a joke

T24076d ago

Surly the consoles are competing against one another " ...So its surly , did you expect friendly competition? Lol

007Bond4076d ago

Please give this a read, don't let this P$ fanboy with a P$ logo as an avatar stop you.

DarkHeroZX4075d ago

No, ps4 is actually a next Gen console and not a "catch-up" to current Gen.

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ThatXboxGuy4076d ago

So why write this up and submit it?

NexGen4076d ago

Because this is probably his freshman year at high school and this is an assignment. It's written that way at least.

Zuperman4076d ago

The difference is the PS4 is a TRUE LEGITIMATE NEXT GEN system.

The Wii U Isn't. It's just an HD version of the Wii.

Steadyhndz4076d ago

You're completely right...but you know what amazes me, are the people who say PS4 isn't really next gen.

RyuCloudStrife4076d ago

they should have named it Wii HD Now.

Link0794076d ago

Over 200GB of fast Bandwidth RAM on WiiU's gpgpu and this is measured off the 70% of the gpgpu that we know of wiiu achieves high results because of expensive eDRAM.

PS4 has 174GB but compensates in main RAM ? simple,different approach same results both Nextgen,ENF OF.

720 is rumoured to have 100GB Bandwidth RAM,many times more than 360.

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edgeofsins4076d ago

HD Wii graphics would look terrible still. It isn't just higher definition. It is much more polygons and other more sophisticated graphical effects and animations.

IAmTheBest354076d ago

how is it just an hd version of the wii? the games are completely different.. and its not like its just upscaling wii games. it has its own original titles. i dont understand what you mean in your post. as the article said, two of the three next gen systems are known about. we are just waiting for a third. i dont know what world youre living in, but i would like some insight into whats going on in there.

ZombieNinjaPanda4076d ago

The fact that you get 30 agrees for saying this crap for some reason amazes me. It shouldn't though, you Sony Hivemind on n4g are relentless in your "opinions" (I use that term loosely) rooted in idiocy.

fsfsxii4075d ago

Wii U is the reason i bought my Wii 2 months ago

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Steadyhndz4076d ago

Why are people "Agreeing" with ^^^^ This guy (TheSuperior) he's the dude who wrote the article, put a title for you to click on, and then it was a waste of our time....Then in his own comments he says what we all think "No they're not making mistakes"....sigh

HiddenMission4076d ago

Exactly

I'm sorry people can't be bothered with reading your article. Also I have a new twitter account.

@ThatKansasguy and @NexGen
You too need to learn to read before commenting...

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NYC_Gamer4076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

I believe Sony is way more prepared for the PS4 launch..Nintendo rushed themselves to the market with Wii-U without any solid type of plan and software...Nintendo doesn't fully understand what the Wii-U is supposed to be..

Indo4076d ago

Well said, Nintendo expected people to buy the Wii U just because its labeled Next-Gen. Eventhough Wii U came out first, it relied on many other factors besides great specs to sell. Wii U is good and all but didn't give what people wanted in a Next-Gen Wii console. Its still early to say anything bad about the Wii U, but I have my money on Sony to deliver the best for the PS4.

doublejj4076d ago

I cant agree with you more and the Wii U to me is a complete joke because yes it may be high definition but its just a Wii with high definition and i don't see the Wii U lasting too long in the market even though Nintendo has a boat load of cash they could've used that cash to produce a better system Nintendo you should be ashamed of yourselves. Sony ignore these stories as you are definitely not making a mistake and you are well prepared to tackle this game industry with ease and im on board with Sony.

nintendofeed4076d ago

I don't believe the Wii U made any mistakes? So, what mistakes is their for the PS4 to follow?

Steadyhndz4076d ago

There are a lot of mistakes in Nintendo's way of releasing the Wii U. For one it doesn't match up to what we have now even. It does in some ways, but in most it doesn't....but that's the thing it only matches up to what is soon going to be "Previous-gen".

Nintendo needed to step up its game with the Wii U and they didn't....also having Reggie as their spokesman was not a good idea. Claiming that the Wii U is more powerful than current gen (which is true to an extent but the majority of the population won't see it that way).

Overall the projection sales of the Wii U are about triple of what they actually are so far. Just have to wait and see how it compares this holiday season.

Blackdeath_6634076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

how do you explain the lacklustre games library and the worst monthly sales figure in nintendo's history on January? releasing a console in the awkward gap between next gen and previous gen with specifications that struggle to beat that of consoles 7years older has to be the biggest mistake ever.

kenshiro1004076d ago

Nintendo needs to get back with their roots during Super Nintendo/N64 days. The WiiU really isn't cutting it. I actually want them to succeed but I'm not sure about the direction of their newest console right now.

Persistantthug4076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

When you sell, trade, or give you Wii U away, when you get another, your whole account is gone, including everything you've purchased.

That's worse than a mistake.......
That's flippin incompetent.

Stroke6664076d ago

ok, for its plain stupid to say nintendo did something wrong cause its not how its competitor did it. second, it is more powerful than last gen period. the original projections were 5.5 when their sale hit 3.5 mil then halted they lowered thier projections to 4 mil which either way you splice it isn't triple anything. they still may not even make 4 mil the way things are going but watever. lackluster games are from third party devs everything nintendo put their hands on is great. all sony did was take the ps3 add more ram and a gpgpu. the processor is on with 8 cores rather than a build that acts as 8 processors which is the same shit just a different name.but the wii u is just an hd wii? really?!? dont get me wrong i like both the wii u (which i own) and the ps4(which when the price is right i will own) but people come up with the most stupid rationalizations. lastly if you sell or trade your system, then what good is it for you to retain all the shit on the console? now if your shit broke you can send it in to nintendo and they'll fix it up for you real nice like, but if you just want some extra cash or some store credit to buy the competitor then buy a used wii u system (which nintendo gets no cut of) then tough titties.

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Seraphemz4076d ago

This isnt about the Vita... nice tro--i mean try.

Blackdeath_6634076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

the vita and the wiiU admittedly made the same mistakes but the difference is the vita can still be saved with the release of the ps4,gaikai services and a price drop. whereas the wiiu is not likely to show much improvement. besides vita is a handheld the wiiU is supposed to be nintendo's attempt at "next gen".

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mkis0071h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows901h ago(Edited 1h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

Leeroyw1h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno1h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak48m ago(Edited 39m ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy859m ago

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