| Joelcool7 said: Nintendo better watch out. If WiiU is drastically under powered compared to the Nex-Box and the Nex-Box comes out in 2013. Nintendo could be in major trouble here in the west and Europe. Of course until Sony announces something Nintendo is safe in Japan. However Sony is bound to have something in the works to counter Microsoft. Not looking good for Nintendo, under powered again. Will consumers buy it especially if MS can price the Nex-Box competitively with WiiU? |
I think the success of games on mobile phones, the Nintendo DS and Wii demonstrates that the vast majority of gamers and game-play experiences can be satisfied by hardware which is much less powerful than the HD consoles currently are. If the Wii U is more powerful than the HD consoles there will be very few gamers that would be dissatisfied by the gameplay experience it could provide; especially if some of the rumoured hardware is correct, because that would put the Wii U as being (at least) 4 times the processing power of the HD consoles.
Nintendo's challenge is to attract current Wii owners, and gamers in general, to migrate to the Wii U primarily based on the new user interface and not to worry too much about the potential processing power of their eventual competition. The reason for this is simple, selling people a system based on processing power enhancements past the HD consoles is sort of like selling the XBox and Gamecube based on their graphical capabilities over the PS2, or the N64's graphical capabilities over the Playstation; certainly, there are some noticeable and desireable improvements, but it is not enough.
