Now That We Know About The Wii U, What Will Be Its Fate?

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Fully disagree.

There is no reason to think the WiiU will be anything less than many times more powerful than PS360. The known architectures in any combination are resoundingly more powerful than what either PS360 contain.

This means games will look far better. There was only one game shown on WiiU hardware and it was in real time and did look noticeably better than any PS360 game.

MSony will not do a 20x jump in performance and will be similar to WiiU when they release in 2013, so here all you'll have is a 3rd party buffet of options as they are thrown on all consoles with minor differences.

The controls WiiU offers (screen and/or wiimote+nunchuk) match or excel the base controllers for PS360 and will at least match what the next MSony consoles offer. Plus, every publisher and dev either in Nintendo's conference or not had a lot of good things to say about the possibilities. As long as the hardware is as easy to develop for as its rumored, controller differentiation won't be an issue. Plus, I'd bet MSony copy anyways.

Casual games and core games will be present here and people will flock to it just like they did Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Kinect Sports, Dance central. There will be no difference.

Price will be fine. If people are willing to buy so many $150 Kinect they will buy a $300 new console based on the biggest casual gaming machine to date.

In the end WiiU has every reason to succeed and no reason to even hint at it being a failure or even disappointing.