| Araknie said: It's a questione that i made myself before reading an article. I'm quite disappointed to see that people think that hardcore goes with graphics and the also next-gen goes with graphics. For me the WiiU is next-gen because introduces an old way of play, the GamePad, in a totally new way, the screen and the in build double screens. This is next-gen because never before you could play a game with the TV on OFF, also you totally have a console that has every game on digital support, on retail copy and on digital support by retailers, that's pretty new too. Next-gen means that the whole system works differently from the previous one, hardcore it's not a term for console also, not alone at least, you can only give that term by mentioning games that are not kids stuff or really easy even for a 3 to 7 years old. That's what i always thinked about games, i made my opinion playing the SNES and now that the GamePad is coming, in such an innovation, that's what i will call next-gen also: innovation. And now also a question: are you sick of people not understanding this or you are one of 'em? |
Graphics means many things. A new generation starts by showing graphical leap from the previous gen along with few tweaks here and there. What is the difference between PS2 and PS3, between Xbox and Xbox360 other than graphical leap and some extra options like blu ray, HDDVD, build-in storage etc. So, graphics is the best thing to describe how new gen compares with the previous gen.
Playing games with TV off is not new thing, PSP could stream in the next gen of PS3 games. WiiU doing nothing next gen here. PSV I suppose has all the games in digital format too along with physical copy. So, it's new but nothing next gen.
I fail to see how you say the new gamepad is an innovation and we had a debate in some topic here on vgchartz. It just does streaming which PSP and PSV is capable of PS3 games.
You could have talked about online gameplay in which I think Nintendo has some catching up to do, and 3rd party support in which Nintendo is lacking. You need more than what you showed at 2 E3 conferences to make me believe that the WiiU is next gen.
