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DélioPT on 14 June 2011
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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!

You didn`t get my point. What i tried to sat is, in opposition to Pachter, was that power isn`t enough for a console to succeed and win a generation. PS1 and PS2 are good examples of that - even the Wii is. Pachter thinks that going HD won`t help Nintendo, because it`s been done. But in that case, it won`t help MS and Sony because it`s been done for them aswell. And better graphics doesn`t mean you will sell the most. That`s why i mentioned PS1 and PS2. There were more powerful consoles than them, yet, they still outsold the competition.

Yes, it will very likely be inferior the MS and Sony`s next consoles, but no one knows for how much.

About the third parties, Nintendo is really trying the handle that this time.