Nintendo's Iwata: "we just do not care what kind of 'more beef' console Microsoft and Sony might produce"

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happydolphin said:

@underlined. Me too :)

I really agree with bold.

At the cost it's incurring to manufacturers at this rate I really hope either to be the case. I believe Nintendo is taking a more gamer-centric stance with the WiiU compared to the Wii by offering more in terms of HW as compared to last gen where it was basically cube architecture evolved. The WiiU was made to offer a level of graphical power. But, it remains within their philosophy of not fighting a war of attrition, which has costed Sony and MS alot of money this gen.

I understand that gamers want the console makers to bleed money, but Nintendo as a business doesn't see that as viable, and I agree with them.

You're right to say that they will run into problems because of their decision, but I believe if that does happen, it's not their fault. It's the industry's fault for leading businesses to get strung in a cut-throat dynamic.

I think it depends on many factors to see if the next gen consoles will actually bleed money. I do not think vita is selling at a big loss (might even break even soon) at the moment. The issue is making up for the R&D and such. I think sony won't do the ps3 route this gen but take a route similar to vita in hardware. Dev friendly and made up of off the shelf parts for the most part and will exclude the cell. The thing with home consoles is that just like currernt gen, big publishers will push for bigger better looking games. I personally see the wiiU tablet as a mistake. I think they should have used the cost of that into making the hardware more powerful. Then they would have had a strong enough hardware to avoid a potential situation where devs leave them behind in favor of the other two + will result in a system with Nintendo 1st party and all the good 3rd party games plus motion controls. That's the problem I see with differentiation stratergy, it's high risk high reward.