| Sevengen said: a few people in here have posted that MS and Sony can't release consoles that much more powerful than the Wii-U for fear that they'll lose third party cross platform titles. That's complete nonsense. The only thing that's going to limit the technical abilities of the PS4 and Xbox(insert # here) is cost. Both companies have a massive, entrenched fanbase and could care less how powerful the Wii U is going to be. If they're able to squeeze in 20 times the performance of Nintendo's next offering and do so in a cost effective way, then that's exactly what they're going to do. Besides, that argument is completely contradicted by the Wii's success this generation. Developers ALWAYS want more power and more room to create what they envision. If both of those machines are significantly more capable than the Wii U, developers and gamers both will gravitate towards them. Developers for what they can achieve and gamers for what they can experience. I think Nintendo and the Wii U are actually in a bad position. MS still has plenty of room, time, and opportunity to keep the 360 relevant for another year 1/2-two years. I don't see them launching anything by next christmas. |
No one said that.
Another poster said if PS4 and 720 would be so much more powerful than Wii U that Wii U would be unable to handle ports.
And I told him that there is nothing MS and Sony could put out that would make third party ports unscalable to Wii U's modern architecture and harware.
Also if you think PS4 and 70 will be 20 times more powerful than Wii U like your post suggest, you're dreaming.
Another thing, what most developers would want from this gen is for development costs to not skyrocket even more. If they were so ectastic to use money to develop on the most powerful hardware they have, then multiplats would be made for PCs and ported to consoles instead of Vice versa. It's cheaper and easier to develop on the least capable hardwares and up-port.
Most devs, outside of the big companies like EA and Ubisoft, don't want development costs to do what it did to so many smaller companies this gen.
One last thing about gamers gravitating to the most powerful console, that has never really been the case in console history. The most powerful console has never sold the most of it's generation. Gamers whose console decision rely on power above every thing else are the minority in console gaming. There are alot more important things that come into play.
