Nintendo's Secret Weapon: Why The Wii U Will Dominate The Market

As the excitement caused by E3 dies down, and the videogame press returns to a sense of normality, reality starts to kick back in. Nevertheless, Bits 'n' Bytes Gaming's Martin Watts still has a great deal of interest in Nintendo’s Wii U console, and he thinks that the console is in for a very sucessful future. Join him as he discusses why he thinks Nintendo’s latest innovation will rule the videogame market.

[Eu]

No, NO and NO to this BS....if this thing dont come out with less than 250 price ticket on it it will a DIAMMOND HARD sell for the same people they sold the Wii. Even if they do manage to pull a Apple with this thing, it doesnt matter because Sony and MS will fight it with price (for PS3 and X360) and the launch of the next iteration of their consoles.

[CDbiggen]

Eh?

[Merivigian]

It's a console. A hardware heavy console at that (yes, when you say console that does include controllers). It's not going to be $250 when handhelds like the 3DS and Vita are selling at that price.

[Eu]

Look, I know people thses days really dont READ, they simply take whats wroten and answer without really thinking...WHO bough most of those 70+ million Wiis? CASUALS. Will they be willing to buy another console for more than 250? HARDLY! Specially because they DONT CARE ABOUT GRAPHICS! Remember that? No? Well, they do care about price, those gram, soccer moms and such wont be that happy if the WiiU isnt cheap, and for the hardcore people who could CARE LESS about the old Nintendo IPs why would they buy WiiU if they could play, basically, the same games on cheaper (by then) PS3 and X360?

Reading compreending skills are lacking so hard theses days....

Nintendo will do whatever it can to try and keep the specs on the WiiU as reasonably powerfull while being cheap, but will that work in the end?

LMAO at the disagrees...

[jacen]

think back, how much was a ps3 when it first came out?
did people buy it? yes
was it anything new? no

[Legion]

What do you mean no? Of course it was new. Bluray, cell processor, graphics capability, directly competing with the Xbox 360.

Now the Wii U... will not be directly competing with the 360 or PS3. It will have similar HD capabilities but will not have the capabilities that SOny and MS have been able to achieve with their years on market with their current generation systems.

You just can't try and come into the current generation at the END of the generation with any chance of being able to compete. It is like starting the Indy 500 after everyone else has already put in 400 laps. You might have more gas in your tank but you are not going to be able to win the race... or even compete. Nintendo will be still on the track at the Indy 500 as PS3 and 360 are in their next race again competing while Nintendo tries to figure out what they are doing.

Wii and Nintendo is and was succesful because it wasn't in direct competition with Sony or MS and their superior systems.

[Rush]

Dude the Wii U GPU is going to be around 3/4x faster then what's the in PS3/360.

It's going to have 3x more ram, and the processor is no push over.

Any mulitplat game released on the Wii U will look far superior to that found on the 360/PS3.

It will most likely be running in 1080p with X2AA why the PS3/360 version struggle at 720p 0AA.

[Legion]

"Dude the Wii U GPU is going to be around 3/4x faster then what's the in PS3/360." ~Rush

Really? hahahaha

[chrisgay]

I've read somewhere (likely not reliable) that the graphics processor is a modified Radeon 4850. If true, it most certainly is considerably more capable than those in the other consoles.

[Legion]

Chris... you do realize you just referenced a source that you yourself say is likely not reliable to make your point? What is wrong with that picture?

The whole point of the Wii U is that we have no idea what it will be able to do other then Nintendo's reference that it will be comparable to current systems in HD quality. And yet everyone is marking it as the next best thing. Really...? Have we fallen for this type of thing before? Until we even see the specs we can't go around claiming it is the messiah. We can WISH... but we can't act on wishes. Stop hyping the system before you get the specs... it will only hurt it if it can't live up to the hype.

[mamotte]

Why did you buy a PS3 at that price? Power is all that matters to you, so I think you should be better with a pc, and you can upgrade it.

[Legion]

"As the excitement caused by E3 dies down..." really? Was their excitement this year? Come on... this had to be one of the lamest E3 showings in a long time. People just were NOT excited after E3. Nothing dropped that people didn't already know about or have a true interest in.

And Wii U... hahahaha people are STILL scratching their heads.

[TGM]

Regardless of whether it was exciting for any specific reason, E3 in general is an exciting time for the games industry.

[thorstein]

NINTENDO HAS FINALLY MADE A CONSOLE.... for this .... erm.... generation? Maybe?

[Legion]

More like Nintendo finally planning on making a console for this generation? Or a controller? Or something that seems to maybe be this generation capable but not sure and not really caring about until we see some specs maybe???

[EvilDonkey]

Nah, the Wii U is a next-gen console. Both hardware and idea wise.

Lets see if Nintendo's disruptive strategy works again.

[qwertyz]

the wii u controller allows for RTS games like shogun 2 total war on consoles. but does it have the horse power to handle such games at good graphics quality ? or is the wii u as weak and ram deficient as current gen consoles when compared to pcs ? these are the questions lol

[SleazyChimp]

Nope won't happen for two reasons. 1)The core gamer will see this as gimmicky shovelware RD 2. Sure they might be able to get the same games the other systems get, but most people who were unsatisfied with Wii have already bought a 360 or PS3. They'll be a few early adopters whos eyes where glazed over from the sparkle of a shiny new controller, but most will wait to see what MS and Sony does.

2)Nintendo did not show a big difference between the Wii u and the Wii. Hell the console looks identical to the Wii and they showed multiple videos of the new system being played with the same old Wii controllers and balance board ect. The casual gamer is gonna look at this thing and say "Uh, I already have one of the these, but where can I get one of those controllers?" When they find out the have to plop down a big chunk of change on a new system just to get the new controller they'll be turned off by it.

What we have learned the last five years is that casual gamers don't really care about cutting edge graphics, and they buy maybe one title a year. Bottom line is I just don't think Nintendo will be able to sell a new Wii to everybody that bought one last time.

[Merivigian]

That's funny actually what you said about "core gamers". Core gamers aren't the ones who sit there and play CoD all day. That's still playing a console "casually". A core gamer is the gamer who plays any type of game and sees the fun in it. A REAL "Core Gamer" can see uses for the Wii U. Not only enhanced play (with the controller's screen) but with full HD, yes full HD. Most of the games on the Xbox and PS3, yes even the "Core Games", are native to 720p. The Wii U on the other hand, oh what's this, 1080p natively? Damn.. that IS full HD.

"casual gamers don't really care about cutting edge graphics"
I think you are completely forgetting that this is the first HD Nintendo console. That means it is no longer a "casual system". Nintendo has opened the gates this time around, and you're just going to have to accept that.

[death2smoochie]

We have NO idea as of now if the new Wii will NATIVE output 1080p...be more powerful than the PS3 or Xbox360 etc.

Nintendo is saying nothing at this point and its actually hurting its bottom line.
Nintendo needs to release details.

[SleazyChimp]

Every game on my 360 runs 1080p, now thats not true on my PS3, but thats not the point. Look I would love for the big N to have a kick ass system. When I heard they were going after the core gamer again I was thrilled. To me what they showed was the opposite of that. Hell the fact that they left Wii in the title is proof enough. When I say core I mean the people who buy 4-5 games a year. The ones of us that stand in line on launch day for a new system, order pre-order all their games. Not just people who waste away endless hours on MP deathmatch

[death2smoochie]

Nintendo HAS to reveal the official specifications for this new console. Too many unanswered questions and the reason their stock prices have dropped and investors are getting worried.
Now is NOT the time for Nintendo to be quiet.

[Falaut]

Yes you are right, because at this point it feels like people are now waiting for 5 year old polygon pushing tech with a tablet controller, for another year before release! WTF.

[pcz]

i think people just dont understand it, and therefore cant comprehend how it can be used and what its strengths are.

nintendo didnt do anything to help those confusions with their bizarre conference, but im sure all will be made clear.

just like wii, its going to... well, wii on the competition :D

haters are going to say its totally wack, until sony/microsoft copy the idea

:D

[StarWolf]

no. micro and sony copied the motion controls, and people still say its wack.