As expected. Nintendo historically allows their treasure chest of IP to carry much of the load for them to showcase what their platform can achieve that other cannot; profitability for many of their consoles as a result.

However, this doesn't give Nintendo a free pass. While I do understand that going for a more powerful system isn't in the cards, even utilizing specs for their next generation console akin to the PlayStation 4 via a unified architecture could not hurt finances in research and development. Furthermore, this does open up a plethora of possibilities. Since the console is unified, devs. and pubs. will not have to worry about higher costs for optimization.


Again everyone, just my opinion, but some form of architecture like the PlayStation wouldn't hurt costs.

lol what did they do to you?

4 years of delays, droughts, broken promises, and stifling talented devs with cowardly, play-it-safe software, culminating in what looks like the imminent abandonment of Wii U after just three years of proper support.

Stifling talented devs? Where? They've given us some of the best software there is, lol, and even funded dead-end stuff like Bayo2. In fact I don't think much of anything on the WiiU is play-it-safe, in fact its largely one huge clusterfuck of weird ideas.

I'm curious, though, why you didn't abandon them with the GBA under this criteria lol

3D World, NSMBU, and Tropical Freeze were painfully conservative, and it looks like Starfox will be too.

And I never owned a GBA, I hate portables.

GBA got this treatment too when it failed to catch on and the PSP was coming to market.

That said, I don't agree with you on anything but NSMBU. In fact I have no idea why you've turned so pessimistic since I was last here lol. There's been an unusual amount of creative freedom on the WiiU which, unfortunately, has been trapped on a fucked console with a shit-ass gimmick.

The one where the DS was launched to counter the PSP, and the GBA forgotten in the wind?

I'm pessimistic because whenever I have a shred of optimism regarding Nintendo these days, they dash it with yet another terrible decision or display of contempt for their fans. I didn't drop hundreds of dollars on a new console to play Wii/3DS games in HD and budget spinoffs, yet aside from a few exceptions, that seems to be all Nintendo wants to make any more.

If it releases in 2016 I'd bet that it would be weaker than the PS4 and Xbox One.

This is the fate of a company trying to juggle two consoles at once. If anything you should be happy that they are effectively axing this paradigm and moving towards unification because it means we won't have this nonsense cycle of 3DS -> WiiU -> 3DS -> WiiU. They're incapable of supporting both with non-stop software all on their own of the bigbudget variety while also producing high-quality (big budget) 3DS games.

They kick off this stupid charade.

But, that said, yes, the fate of the WiiU is unfortunate but all the same its given me a good enough ride for me not to be all that torn up about it.