With the PS3 and 360 in its final years, have Nintendo prepared for battle?
Sure, the Wii U may have its differences to the current generations, but is it enough for it to be able to compete with the mighty PS3 and Xbox 360? Nintendo may of made a grave mistake releasing the Wii U before the new PlayStation or Xbox has been released, and here is why.
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They could have easily designed a much more powerful machine, sure it might not have been as powerful the next PS or Xbox, however it could have been enough to run the same games as the next PS or Xbox albeit with a lower settings (maybe run games in 720p vs 1080p on the other consoles).
Problem is Nintendo had no clue what they were going for. They literally banked the console on a tablet controller gimmick.
The tablet costs so much and isnt really what the core gamers want anyways. If the casuals wants to play on a tablet they might as well pick up a Android or Apple product.
I think it was a bad decision on Nintendo's part.
The next consoles are coming equipped with something around the power level of a HD 7870 (which is strictly mid range by todays standard).
No reason why Nintendo couldnt have kept up with those specs(as in get very close to that performance).
I think I know who they were going for. They use the wii name for a reason.
The name wiiU is awful. Should of just called it mega awsome system of at least wii2.
@Jadedz
"Next-gen might not be backward compatible with the system's original software and accessories (Wii U is, though). "
How will this appeal to people who want to play ps3 games next gen?
knew what they were doing when they designed the system. There had been reports of how the cpu is weaker than the gpu. If memory serves...wasnt the SNES criticized for having a weak cpu as compared to the genesis? And yet the snes was able to compensate with the mode 7 and enhanced visuals from the rest of the system. So in effect, the wii-u is like the snes.
We only react to what we think its capable of but over time there are things it can probably do that will elevate it to the level of next gen as compared to the offerings by sony and ms.
After reading the Gamasutra article:
http://www.gamasutra.com/vi...
Next-gen might not be backward compatible with the system's original software and accessories (Wii U is, though).
I don't think they did. The 3DS on the other hand.... yeah... too early for sure.
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The games they released thus far are not exceptional.
As far as I can tell their first heavy hitter seems to be MH3U. Arrives to NA on the 19th of next month.
I believe they should have waited until they could release a game based on a typical Nintendo character. Maybe opening with MH is enough, which means releasing the Wii U next month.
If you think about it though, a new console released in February wouldn't seem to gain many sales. In terms of business decisions of making a profit, their original release date prior to xmas is a good decision. If anything they just need to hang around until their big games come.
However if no big changes occur with the releases of the first heavy hitters, then they have some big problems.
One advantage I think is those developers without big AAA budgets may go only for the wii U.
It is In my Opinion Nintendo's release for a Living room console will be on a cycle that will be in advance of Microsoft and Sony.
Thus when both the PS3 and the xbox360 release, when would Nintendo release the New replacement for the WiiU?
I think the larger Question is will this matter in the grand scheme of thing's, for me I really do not think release of the system is not going to be what mainly matter's anymore because there is so many player's in the Console gaming market now that release of said system will matter less and Less when there is already a saturation of Gaming systems on the Market already.
Which for me is the entire market May have more of a problem in showing any real strong stability of sales and Market trends due to so many dynamic's that the market analysis driven Media outlets obsession with the 24 hr News for market watching will do more hard Harm than good for every new Product that it seem's will be a failure against the "this is the IT Hot product right now" vs your new Product that just released, why is it not performing well right now attitude that's
Infested the world wide web and new's media where these new product's are given poor product market performance before it even makes it to the market, than continues durring the entire product cycle of the product. Not letting the Product getting a breath of fresh air instead keeping it drowning in a perpetual Flow of FUD to help it along in maintaining that said product is Drowning.
its not about information about the product's anymore its about making sure FUD flows to keep generating Money.
FUD generates Money!!
Being about as powerful as the two current HD consoles it should have came out years ago.
But now that it is out it will need stellar first party support and seeing that third party support s shrinking they must fight harder to get more.
And it will most likely get just harder with the probably way more powerful ps4 and a next xbox coming up.
Nintendo is dead.