| badgenome said: No, I agree. It's strange that people still assume that putting out an underpowered console means doom, especially when Nintendo has made money hand over fist doing just that. But Nintendo seems to be banking on similar third party support to MS and Sony this time around, and I'm not sure third parties won't basically abandon them in a year or two if Vigil's recent statement that Wii U is merely on par with the PS3/360 is true. Still, like I said, that the Wii U's gimmick just doesn't strike me as a very good one is my real concern. Hopefully there's a "Wii Sports" in the works for it that will show everyone why this is such a brilliant thing, but for right now I'm just not seeing it. But I don't really want anyone to fail out of the console market. Both Sony and Nintendo have shown bad tendencies when they've been dominant, and Microsoft has shown horrible ones without ever being truly dominant. The competition has been nothing but good, IMO. |
I believe they have a Wii U sports already in the works (early demo was probably part of the E3 demonstration on the controller abilities). Not sure how they are going to package their controllers. If they are still going to rely on the Wiimote along with the Wii U controller then you would think they would perhaps have to include both in the system. Wii U Sports should be a given considering how much success they had with the previous two.
I like more competition also considering it keeps all companies on their toes (unless they make back room deals). Even though I don't really Microsoft or Sony I still don't really want them to go. I'll take them as competitors over Apple. If Apple was the only one left in the home video game market I'd probably go back to playing cards and board games. Actually, I'd just stick with PC then.
