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arcane_chaos on 21 July 2011
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padib said:
arcane_chaos said:
I don't think it's that bad of an idea for MS to release their next console by 2013 gives them plenty of time to study the console(wish probably be shown at both gamescom and TGS) will have a little window opportunity to see the sales/sales trend of the Wii U to make their final judgement on what they need to compete with the console.

I don't think MS or Sony need to rush to compete with nintendo's next console though, from my little anecdotal evidence, people who know of the Wii U just see it as a console to compete with the current HD consoles, Some people think it was another upgrade of the wii(possibly to suffer from the same fate as the 3DS?) Sony and MS should wait and see what 3rd party support(either exclusive wise or exclusive content wise) the Wii U is getting to decide when they should jump in(I don't think the Wii U will survive on 1st party titles and shovelware this time around)

I hope the Wii U is successful though, would make for better competition.

Suffer the same fate as the 3DS? You were probably one of those saying the same about the Wii when the DS came out I bet. And yeah, I hope so too. Good thing MS is taking them seriously. 3rd parties should start following their example. It would give better games in the big picture.

really? I bought the original DS on it's first holiday season, the wii was the 2nd home console I purchased. never said a bad thing about the Wii or DS

though I will not out the whole "DOOMZDAY" on the 3DS, but is a pretty much a common notion that one of the reasons why the 3DS isn't having such blockbusters sales is how both the name and look of the console  resembles it predecessors. Like BenVtrigger has stated multiple times; many people see the 3DS as just another upgrade to the already multiple version of the DS family.(from my gamestop expiriences) I hope nintendo in the near future can somehow distinguished the 3DS from it's last gen counter-part as it really is a damn good handheld. now if the average consumer here's nintendo next system is called the "Wii U" they probably might think the same thing.