UltimateUnknown said: Your argument assumes that by setting Wii U to have a lower price for consumers, Nintendo can sell a ton of consoles and gain 3rd party support, which would then profit Nintendo. |
Not my argument, but I do agree with a good deal of the article. The difference to this gen from last gen is the Wii was
1. Severely underpowered relative to the competition
2. A complete unknown and expected by most to fail versus the HD consoles
This gen Nintendo have shown that they can sell a great deal of consoles and rumour has it third-party support is much stronger than it ever was at this stage prior to the Wii's release. We also know it can run the vast majority of modern game engines (UE3, Cryengine 3, Havok physics, Frostbite2, IDTech5 etc.) with UE4 not due until 2014.
Even if PS4/Nextbox are more powerful, I doubt we'll see the power differential from this gen where the difficulty in porting games to Wii was just too much of a challenge. With WiiU, I suspect Nintendo will be able to get a lot more ports that just weren't possible on Wii.
This is not even factoring in the masses of money Nintendo have accumulated in the last gen for marketing.