Official Wii U Thread!: Pokemon Rubmle U coming to Wii U

[Andrespetmonkey]

happydolphin said:

Andrespetmonkey said:
Twice as powerful wouldn't be that much, if MicroSony take the same route they took this gen, and make the consoles very powerful, they'll easily make the Wii U look dated, Wii U will be behind in Graphics, Physics, AI, and probably online player counts. This wouldn't help them with third party support, which they are apparently trying to win back, because games will easily look and run better on other consoles, leading to better sales on other consoles.

But I guess Wii never needed powerful next-gen hardware to succeed, so I doubt the Wii U will either.

These are just rumours though so I really don't know what will actually happen.

@bold. Very unlikely.

And the issue with the Wii was not that it was less powerful than the X3sony (PS360), but rather that the Wii was SD, and was not even on the same level as the other market players. Understandably this was to create a radical shift between them and their competition, but it was ultimately counter-productive. Nintendo could have had the all-around console of gen 7.

As for WiiU, even if it is not as powerful as the nextbox3 (which I doubt), it would still be on the same playing field, as PS2 was to GC.

Also, 2x as powerful is probably a horribly simplistic metric of comparative HW capabilities, like HappySquirrel said.

The Wii being SD is because it didn't have powerful next-gen hardware in it, the Wii U will be in the same position if this rumour is true. 

Keep in mind I'm speaking from the hypothetical scenario in which the Wii U isn't in the same league hardware-wise as playbox 4 (which is what the "2x as powerful rumour would suggest), I'm not saying anything about how likely this scenario is, not even saying I think it will happen.