"Wii U hardware is on par with current gen consoles"

[Soundwave]

Mnementh said:

Soundwave said:

I'm not even sure if I'd say the Wii "won" this generation. Yes maybe in terms of units sold, but the XBox 360/PS3 have had much more vitality into their later years and seem to have much more active software development and developer support. The Wii had three very explosive years off the top and then has really levelled off.

Please define winning.

Having the widest amount of third party developer support, being the platform that has the best quality games on it as a whole (see: NES, SNES, Playstation, Playstation 2), having the most active marketplace for developers games ... I think has to be considered.

The Wii is not like the previous generation "winners" in those respects. It's certainly not what I would call the "market leader" right now, as a platform the majority of the development community (even Japanese) are not making games for it anymore unless it's shovelware.