I have my doubts that it'll take off like the Wii as well. The Wii really was a revolution and it's too bad it fizzled out the way it did.
But with that said, Pachter isn't at all vindicated with this announcement in anyway. Anyone with half a brain knew that a new Nintendo HD hardware was coming out because a1). Nintendo themselves say they are working on new hardware as soon as the new one releases and 2). the Wii's successor was going to be HD by default as a natural progression after shunning it the previous gen.
If it is indeed true that the WiiU is 50% more powerful than the PS3, that's fine. There's not so much more we can do in my opinion and still keep development costs at a reasonable level. I don't think the PS4 or NextBox will be exponentially more powerful than current gen HD systems like you probably expect. We have 1080p and 3D... what else can we do? I guess we could go 2160p and ask more gamers to fork out for another generation of HDTVs. At this point, I think we'll only make incremental increases in horsepower. And more sophisticated A.I. and ingenious game design will be the new bells and whistles games will have to rely on as opposed to a graphics crutch.
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