Is Nintendo always going to be behind Microsoft and Sony in graphics?

[Joelcool7]

mai said:

Gilgamesh said: 

But seriously graphics better then the PS3? I dunno, Unless Nintendo plans on selling this machine for $350 or $400, and we all know how much they like to make a profit.

Overcome PS3 graphics five years after launch is some kind of achievement now? And why all these sentiments as if PS3 was unprecedented case in terms of graphical power, as I remember it, PS3 has always and successfully been challenged by X360. Moreover I'm pretty sure that now in year 2011 you can easily build hardware similar in performance to PS3 and X360 yet significantly cheaper as long as you're planning serial manufacturing.

Also Gilgamesh, Nintendo and IBM have been great partners since GameCube. Look at GameCube only about two years into its life cycle in 2003. Nintendo cut the price to 99$ the console was almost on par with the mighty X-Box. Yet guess what Nintendo announced they were still turning a profit on every GameCube.

GameCube was vastly more powerful then PS2/DreamCast and almost on par statistically with X-Box. IBM will give Nintendo a great deal and I'm sure Nintendo can get the rest of the console's parts for dirt cheap as well. I As someone said you can get a state of the art graphics chip for only 100$ that can do far better then PS3/360. So how cheap can Nintendo get that card?

Nintendo gives IBM a shit load of R&D money to create their specific parts. Also Miyamoto stated the next console would  be HD at E3 2006. With developers supposedly having had early dev kits for up to three years now, it can be assumed IBM has been working on this since 2006. IBM apparently hasn't even finished its work on WiiU.

So when will Nintendo be graphically superior? 2012! Of course being the first console out of the gate they will fall alittle behind Nex-Box and PS4. But honestly as others pointed out Nintendo's WiiU will be hard to beat graphically, when they do beat it it won't be anywhere near the difference that Wii had with 360/PS3. Infact I bet it will be closer to 360 VS PS3. I mean I heard lately that WiiU could probably handle the PC version of BattleField3, which is the best thing PC has to offer.

I bet WiiU will be on par or close to par with the latest PC technology upon launch in 2012.

Lastly Gilgamesh, who said Nintendo WiiU won't launch at 350$? Nintendo 3DS launched for an unpresidented 250$ 50$ more then the DS did. Also the Wii launched at 279.99CDN and sold fairly well in Canada. I wouldn't count a 300$-350$ price tag out yet. Also Nintendo could probably build this WiiU 5-10x the power of PS3 for 300$ easily. IBM is a good partner and Nintendo has much better R&D teams then the competition.

I still expect WiiU to dwarf the current gen consoles and be priced between 300-350$. IBM is still working on WiiU and Nintendo hasn't shown us finished games or hardware. Look at the tech demo for Zelda, that running on an early dev kit is capable of performing just as good if not way better then PS3!