Nvidia took the stage to talk about a large array of topics during CES 2014. From streaming PC games on the Shield handheld, to their brand new 92 CUDA-core Tegra K1 processor. While talking about the rising budgets and risks game publishers and developers face in today’s industry, they presented a graphic to illuminate their talking points. The basic precedence that brought this graphic to light was the dilemma developers face when trying to reach the widest audience possible.

If you take a look at the image (above), you’ll see that both mobile and home console devices are represented. In particular, Nvidia chose to showcase the next-generation of gaming consoles ie.PlayStation 4, Xbox One and….no Wii U.

The act of not even mentioning Nintendo‘s console suggests Nvidia harbors some sort of disdain for the platform, or possibly doesn’t consider it powerful enough to mention in the same breath of Sony andMicrosoft‘s newly released consoles. What’s more, it seems that tablets, smart-phones, and desktop PCs are all shown.

This is indicative of Nintendo’s current situation. For the most part, third party developers have ceased production of Wii U versions of their titles, retailers are ordering less product, and Nvidia doesn’t consider the platform worth mentioning. Nintendo has fallen on hard times.

http://www.igameresponsibly.com/2014/01/05/nvidia-doesnt-even-acknowledge-the-wii-u-exists-during-ces-2014/#!prettyPhoto/0/

So they're like everybody else in the world?

This would be even better if someone else made this thread...

What is the 3rd on the right?

Lol, pretty much. Not sure why people still think that these type of articles are worth creating a new thread when it has been like this for years by now (companies pretending that WIi* hardware doesn't exists)

Makes sense not to include WiiU since it only gets the $1Mil ports of $100Mil AAA games. In the best case. It's not part of the problem Nvidia wanted to discuss in their presentation, so it hasn't been included in this slide.

Any objections?

Not surprising, they are a graphics company. But no one cares about graphics so they'll be bankrupt by the end of the week :D

You know the thing that pops out to me... 100 Million dollars ...

Does it really take that much money to develop great titles these days... I know the return is huge (Ex. GTA 5), but still..

Of course a graphics company wouldn't take Nintendo seriously. Their philosophies are totally different.

Well maybe he knows that Wii U exists, but it's just meaningless in the comparison at hand?