It's a questione that i made myself before reading an article.

I'm quite disappointed to see that people think that hardcore goes with graphics and the also next-gen goes with graphics.

For me the WiiU is next-gen because introduces an old way of play, the GamePad, in a totally new way, the screen and the in build double screens.

This is next-gen because never before you could play a game with the TV on OFF, also you totally have a console that has every game on digital support, on retail copy and on digital support by retailers, that's pretty new too.

Next-gen means that the whole system works differently from the previous one, hardcore it's not a term for console also, not alone at least, you can only give that term by mentioning games that are not kids stuff or really easy even for a 3 to 7 years old.

That's what i always thinked about games, i made my opinion playing the SNES and now that the GamePad is coming, in such an innovation, that's what i will call next-gen also: innovation.

And now also a question: are you sick of people not understanding this or you are one of 'em?

its next gen becuz the wii is current gen

well I completely agree with you..... WiiU is next gen by many factors other than graphics and we can safely say that it will be probably next gen on graphics at least by its hardware capacity too....

but beside that one or 2 years later a new console will come from sony and MS and it will probably put the bar higher on many things... from graphics to media capabilities to connectivity with other device with kinect Move 3d etc... which will make them next gen too and probably of a higher grade than the WiiU....

you have to remember if a console is capable of really higher graphic it is also capable to have a lot more things possible at other level in the game... better AI... mor simultaneous players, better physics better anything that requires more resource hardware wise....

nintendo WiiU is the next gen of the Wii PS4 of the PS3 and next box of the 360 people should just concider that after if we have to say which one is more next gen the best way to do it is on tangible spec.... because inovation might not always be the best barometer.... some people like some stuff other don't and graphic often ends being the most tangible and gageable thing in VG....

heck from an innovative point of view Kinect would be the most innovative / adavnce / next gen of all three motion system this gen yet we can safely say that Wiimote is the most appreciated and the one that had the devs be the most creative second comes move and third kinect....

while I agree with your feeling.... I also have to admit that by tangible standard PS4 and Nextbox will be more next gen than the WiiU when they come out.... unless they change their business approach completely at MS and Sony....

Because nex-gen begins when nintendo says it begins.

There's already a thread like this in the gaming forum

Pretty sure it's next gen because it hasn't released yet.

Who would want to download WiiU games anyway? WiiU has only 8GB storage. With only 1 game your WiiU is full, and it has not to be games like Mass Effect 3 wich are 15GB.

The WiiU is next gen becoz Wii is current gen. But technology wise, Wii was not different from the GameCube, and WiiU has finally catched up to the current gen HD consoles.

Because of the release date like mentioned before in other threads.

It's next gen, because of the better graphics, better online (hopefully...), more capabilities and new ways to play than the current gen.

Can we PLEASE stop the WiiU threads, please? This is getting ridiculous. If you don't want one, don't get one. Simple as.

And we don't even know if the rumours about specs and the flash drive are true. So why don't we just wait until we play it ;)

(Note- Not directed at anyone in particular, just general)

How many times do people have to say that there is the option to buy a HDD that you can use before it gets stuck in peoples heads?

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Next gen doesn’t start until Sony says so! That’s their own words so it must be true