So Pachter Says "Nintendo Is Too Late"....That's Great News For Nintendo !

[Eddie_Raja]

HappySqurriel said:

Eddie_Raja said:

DélioPT said:
To me, what he is saying is: "ok, there already exist two HD machines on the market who had all the impact to themselves. Now, with Wii U, Nintendo will fail to impress gamers in general because HD has already been done."
This is true. But now, it`s only one side of things, because PS4 and Xbox 720 will still be in HD with better graphics. So, in a sense, if HD won`t work for Wii U, it won´t work for Sony and Microsoft`s new consoles as it did with Xbox 360 and PS3.

Will they be that much powerful to still impress? No one knows. Personally i think they won`t. I see it, as many have pointed out, as PS2>GC>Xbox.

About Nintendo Wii U`s power, i read in an article where some devs think that it will have 50% more processing power than PS3 and Xbox 360 - http://www.industrygamers.com/news/wii-u-is-actually-50-more-powerful-than-ps3---report/

Pachter`s mistake continues to be that "power" sells consoles. PS2 and Wii weren`t the best and just look at their sales.

"Pachter says he believes Microsoft and Sony will continue to reduce the price of their consoles going forward, and if the Wii U is too expensive compared with those alternatives, it could be in for trouble."
That didn`t stop both PS2 and PS1 to be generation leaders despite having cheaper consoles on the market when they arrived.

This is what people like you don't get: 50% is not enough!  The ps3 is litterally 10 times more powerful than the PS2 and the PS2 was 10 times more powerful than the PS1.  THe dreamcast on the otherhand was only about 2-4 times better than the previous generation and look what happened:  it sold a mediocre amount of consoles until the real heavy hitters launched and it was destroyed.  

The Wii U will not sell well because it isn't that much stronger than the current gen and it will be weaker than the next gen competition.

To those that bring up the controller as an example of how it may succeed, keep this in mind:  Nintendo has basically alienated third parties, and what do third parties make?  Oh that's right, most of the HD games.

 

P.S.  LOL at Ghost Recon Online.  A port of an already free PC shooter doesn't count!

If the Wii U was only 50% more powerful than the PS3 in the same way that the PS3 was 10 times as powerful as the PS2, how can the Wii U render a tech demo which is as impressive as anything that has been released to the HD consoles at 1080p @60fps while also rendering to a controller that has a decent resolution (probably) at 60fps?

edit: Similar quality graphical output while rendering 5 times as many pixels = 50% improvement?

OMG so many things to respond to:

1.) Outputing on two displays doesn't take double the power.  Oh and the PS3 could output on two two HD screens since launch.  Actually my netbook can too lol.

2.) Really you think the PS3 doesn't have 1080p games at 60fps? IT DOES!  While few and not that great, they do exist; and let's say the Wii U can do it too with all of the best games, that really is only about 50%.   

3.)Compare Killzone 3 to Killzone 1.  Then compare the Wii U's tech demo to the PS3 and 360's first tech demos.  Really you think the difference between the two consoles is that big?  LOL!

4.) So where is this 5x the pixels thing?  1366x728 = 720p, so the Wii U, can do somewhere around 3000p?  Cool have fun finding a TV with that!

 

OWNED!