| MDMAlliance said: You know, if the Wii U wasn't such a threat to Microsoft and Sony then why are they constantly making retorts about the Wii U that subtly make it seem less appealing? Sony does it, Microsoft just did it not too long ago. I think the Wii U is definitely a threat. |
My angle on that front is to look at what MS is saying - specifically, where they say something along the lines of "It looks like it's comparable to the Xbox 360"... which is very high praise from a competitor. If they're willing to say it's around the same power/capabilities, then it's probably quite a bit more than that. If it really was around the same power as the 360, then they'd have said something like "it looks like a pale imitation of the 360, and releasing 7 years too late". But they can't really convince people of that, based on the evidence.
There's really no doubt whatsoever that, at the very minimum, MS and Sony are wary of it. They were dismissive of the Wii, and they know where that got them. This is now a system that could severely eat into the remaining lives of their current consoles, and potentially compete well against their next consoles (after all, the Wii did pretty damn well against their current ones, so even without the higher power, they've clearly got an edge of some sort).
Why do you (not you, MDMAlliance, I'm using "you" rhetorically) think that, suddenly, both of them have started saying things like "We won't release a new console until we can produce a significant boost to power over the current generation"? After all, it's been 7 years since the 360 released, and 6 years since the PS3 released, you'd think they could get a pretty strong boost to power in that time. Those statements are clearly trying to minimise the impact of the Wii U, which means that it is having an impact, or they fear that it will, at least.
