| GameAnalyser said: It pretty much looks like it answers this thread, but it's still PS3 "messing up" in place of PS4, a reason otherwise this thread wouldn't have been started at all. |
You said yourself: "any "Non-Common element" that comes into observation if current gen and next gen are brought together." PS3 - Vita crossplay requires next-gen hardware to work. In my opinion, and by your own definition, that makes it a next-gen feature.
I could come up with some other stuff if pressed. Personally, I consider social and mobile integration (Miiverse, SmartGlass, etc) a "next-gen" feature. Sure, current-gen consoles are implementing it, but they are doing so extremely late in their life-cycles, and it will be a standard feature for all next-gen consoles at launch.
I miss the days when having a greater poly count was the only requirement for next-gen status. Wii U obviously has more power than PS3 and 360 -- heck, the parts under its hood were designed well after all three current-gen consoles were launched. Its CPU is next-gen.
How about the NFC tech? That's something no current-gen console can do. Wii U is pretty much built to do things no other console can do. It doesn't have to leave PS3 and 360 in its dust in every area to be next-gen.
