id Boss: 3rd-Party Wii Development "Not Really Justified"

[WereKitten]

theRepublic said:

WereKitten said:

I dissent. Graphical improvement did not grant success to GC and Xbox over the PS2. The only shift the Wii made was in market focus: they went for the untapped market of the audience that found games not accessible enough and overly complex.

This changed nothing for the traditional gamers, including the Nintendo core. And it's not a paradigm shift.

 

Tell that to all the people even on this site who still think that the PS2 was the most powerful last gen.  The differences in power between the consoles were very small, and nothing compared to this gen.

Indeed. But even if they were perfectly equal, they would still be proof that graphical improvement was not "the cornerstone to console success".

The most you can say is that Nintendo, for the first time, totally sidestepped the idea of keeping pace in technical advancement with their competitors - note that it's not only graphics: sound, computation power, storage, network infrastructure...

That was a bold business move and one that is paying great dividends thanks to their new market.