What real 'next gen' is there actually in the Wii U...?!

[Zim]

thetonestarr said:

Zim said:

The Wii U certainly has enough going on that when developers start using it more efficiently it will be able to provide much better looking games than the PS3/360. The big question really is how many developers outside of Nintendo will?

Well, if you recall, Nintendo consulted third parties when designing the WiiU. They went out of their way to ask a variety of third-party developers what they wanted in a system to develop for and why they didn't develop more for the Wii. They built not only the dev kits, the controllers, and the graphical power, but also the actual interior structure itself (ie, everything you mentioned in that third part of your post) according to the requests of third parties.

I think a large number of them will be using the efficiency capabilities of the Wii. I know for a fact that EA and Ubi are going to, anyways. If we can get Namco, 2k, and anybody that likes to be published by any of the previous four companies involved, I'll at least be a more-than happy-enough camper.

The thing is though I think there is a big difference between 3rd parties saying what they would like to see and actually using the system. The features were implemented to make multiplatform titles easier. Not necessairly to allow devs to fully utilize the hardware. We are still in launch so it's too early to tell but certainly no games were taking advantage of the changes. I suspect any multiplatform games won't really take advantage of it.

Also I'm not sure what exactly is going on but there is something very weird at the moment with 3rd parties and Wii U. For example last year EA made a BIG deal of how much they were going to support it..... and this year at E3? Nothing. I think there was a brief mention that a madden title would come to Wii U. Likewise It is well known that Black Ops 2 is already running on Wii U.... but nothing was said. Skylanders is in development for it but just got a very small mention etc. 

I have heard rumours that Nintendo are holding a separate event just for Nintendo stuff later this year so maybe they want to hold things back until then? Who knows.