Nintendo Wii U not a threat that requires PS4, says Tretton

[Mr Khan]

Gamerace said:
For once I agree (somewhat) with Tretton and in fact have been saying this for a while. The Wii U does not necessarily start a new console generation. It's just this gen part II for Nintendo, similarly Kinect/Move was this gen part II for Sony/MS.

If the Wii U tablet really takes off (unlikely) Sony / MS will just copy that. No need for new consoles - yet.

I also don't think prettier graphics are going to win anything for anyone going into a new gen. No matter how much more powerful the only significant difference will be true 1080p (which Wii U has and we don't care). Better lighting, more background details, more lifelike hair/clothes - who cares really?

The real threat to Sony/MS is cloud gaming and how 3rd parties would run to embrace that (one system - all homes!). Apple's icloud could be very threatening if Apple decides to enter the home gaming market (moreso than it is with tablets).

The intransigence of America's big broadband companies are the big three's saviors in that respect. So long as AT&T can feed you 512 kbps and call it "broadband," nobody's doing shit of any importance for the mass market in the cloud for a while. Though Google's getting their feet wet in the ISP department, so perhaps we'll reach a new era of broadband availability in this country soon (i can only hope so. Being more or less monopolized by Verizon, Time Warner, fucking Comcast, and AT&T has stagnated internet in this country tremendously)