Epic Games 'actively lobbying' for more power in next gen consoles

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KylieDog said:

Mr Khan said:

KylieDog said:

NightDragon83 said:

And regarding the Wii U... would anyone really be disappointed if the majority of games for it looked "ONLY" as good as the latest current gen titles like Uncharted 3 or Battlefield 3?

The problem is devs will figure that if people are gaming on a Wii U then they do not care about graphics much, same way they did with the Wii.  So the Wii U will end up with games that do not match up to games like Uncharted 3, BF3, GoD3 etc, much like the majority of Wii games do not match up to top GC titles, despite being able.  Only a few games made that effort on Wii.

Doubt that, because if you're going to make games that underpowered, why make them for consoles at all? The other point possibly being that rising dev costs will mean that developers are forced to incorporate Wii U into their plans at least until PS4/720 have a healthy userbase between them (which could take at least until late 2014), by which point the Wii U would be so entrenched in the system that it would be harder to ignore completely.

@ Bolded - Because people still buy them and even defend the practice, look at the Wii.
@ The rest - People said same thing about Wii and PS3/360, Wii even had a great userbase.  We all saw how third party devs moved their AAA games to Wii right?

Really not the same thing since Wii had an archaic, late 1990s architecture that made porting extremely difficult or impossible.

Wii U will be using a modern architecture.