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Loyal Nintendo fans haven't cared about specs since the end of the GameCube era. Either that, or they still care, but not to the degree that they're willing to forgo first-party Nintendo games simply because of the low horsepower of the machines.

I'm in the first camp. I just haven't cared about specs since the GameCube, since that was the last system they made to be competitive on a technical level with other companies' high-end machines.

Nintendo tends to be approximately one generation behind in horsepower compared to their competitors, but I'm completely fine with that. 3DS games look great, I don't care about the low resolution. You don't even notice it after a while. Wii U games look as good as anything coming out on 360 or PS3.

Who cares about graphics? 95% of the mass market doesn't know about technical specs of game consoles, and furthermore they don't care. They buy based on the attractiveness of the software and the determinable quality of the games. Games and whether or not they're good, that is all that really matters.



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