Agreed. You buy Nintendo for Nintendo games, and Nintendo never fails to deliver to the fans of those franchises.

As for multiplat PS360U titles if you own a PS3 or 360 then you might as well stick to the old generation.

Wii U may not "feel" like next-gen to many people, but it depends on your perspective. My friends and I had a bit of a Wii U launch party yesterday, at which we played local multiplayer with five players at a time on a single console. THAT felt next-gen to me. I thought Metroid Blast in Nintendo Land was the best example of this in action -- it was crazy.

No, the particle effects or whatever weren't blowing the PS360 away, but none of us cared about any of that. The game was just fun, and it kept more of us involved at a time. Less switching controllers around, fewer people sitting out each round, more focus on having fun.

Hear, hear. When did graphics become the be-all and end-all of video game consoles? I just don't get the obsession with more horsepower, better graphics, look at that draw distance!! Yes they are VIDEO games, so the visual is very important; but they are also GAMES, and they're meant to be fun.

Well... they can play however they want. They're free to think of the Wii U as 5th-gen for all I care. To me it's a pretty cool console with a lot of potential. It's a significant improvement over the PS3 & 360 in many ways, and in every way in which it falls short of that, it's at least a huge improvement over the Wii.

Status, braginng right, and cause they got money to burn are some of the reasons peopel get it at launch.

For me it is because I got money to burn and because I remember when I was 8 and after moving to a country that had NINTENDO (NES) as a major gaming device well my parents couldn't afford it. My dad ended up getting me a used NES boxed with gun and mario/duckhunt for $50 from a guy who tried to sell it to a second hand (aka used stuff) store but they turned him away because they didn't sell video game consoles.

I didn't even own a SNES when it first come out as it was unaffordable.

My first launch console was a N64, which my parents saved up for a couple months before launching.

Now that they put me through schooling, I got a wicked job and money to burn, so I am making up for all those lost pleasures as a child.

A couple weeks ago or so an article was posted on here with a confirmation from Nintendo that they are selling the WiiU at a loss.

I also think the value of the YEN atm is the biggest problem facing Nintendo and perhaps Sony atm with their offerings.

Graphics will always be the be-all and end-all of video game consoles. Games with great graphics, together with great music will be able to immerse the player better as opposed to 8 bit graphics and midi music.

Why do think console makers like Nintendo upgrade from NES to SNES, Gamecube, and Sony, the PS1 to PS2 and PS3? Because not just gamers wanted it, but the developers themselves want it so that they can create games/worlds/environments that are more immersive and realistic.

It's like yes, we can fuck an ugly girl and have fun...sex is meant to be fun, but we want to fuck girls with supermodel faces, big boobs and long legs.

Fair enough. But I think a distinction needs to be made between important and essential. Graphics are of course important to video games, as are sound, play control, and gameplay. But they are not sine qua non.

OMG turkish, your sig.. Its so annoying!

brought my 360 5 months after released and I still dont regret, and in the case of ps3, it was def better to buy at launch cuz though the thing wasn't skinny, I can still play my ps1 and 2 games without bitching about no BC.