| Metallicube said: I also think Sony and MS are going to have a difficult time competing with Nintendo, but think he is off on the main reason behind it. I really feel that simply by having Sony and MS hold off on new consoles and giving Nintendo what seems to be at least a year head start (as the new Sony and MS consoles have yet to even be revealed), they've all but conceded the next generation to Nintendo already. Getting a head start is VERY important, moreso than a lot of people think. Just ask the Xbox 360 and the PS2, oh and the 3DS. The extra time gives that console time to establish a decent game library, a userbase that commits to you more and more instead of your competitor, and also gives third parties extra time to become comfortable with developing for the system. You also get a head start on the inevitable price drops to follow because the hardware you manufacture becomes cheaper to make. |
i doubt this year start will be as helpful as you think. excluding first party, the games coming to wii U are ps360 ports. unless nintendo can convince loads of publishers to develop nintendo exclusives (ala zombieU) it's not the wii U that has a head start, it's the ps360. and so far, any support from activision and EA (let alone exclusive support) have been luke warm at best.
so to answer your question of will gamers be able to wait for sony and MS to announce their hardware? A) we'll have the announcement by E3 next year at the latest. B) until nintendo actually starts getting some exclusives that really demand my attention the wii U is absolutely easy to ignore. i already have 2 systems that play batman AC, Mass effect 3, Assasins Creed III, CoD blops2, GTA5, bioshock infinite,.. i (and around 100M other households) really don't need another machines that plays those games.
..and do you honestly think the likes of wii fit 2, just dance, lego city stories, or pikmin are really going to sway the ps360 core? first off, just dance is multiplat. and lol at wii fit 2, pikmin, or even the like of NSMB wii U or any other nintendo property swaying the core. if the core were interested in those the ps360 wouldn't have outlived the wii in the end. those systems thrived despite nintendo's success specifically because nintendo doesn't giving the core what it wants...and they still aren't. zombieU is the only thing i see on wii U of interest so far and one game just isn't enough.
No, no. The real question is will wii U actually get the ps4/nextBox multiplats the article assumes it will get. last i heard epic said wii U is a unreal engine 3 machine and will not support it with unreal engine 4. if wii U doesn't get MSony's next gen multiplats, the wii U is DoA to me.
nintendo had better hope it can strike another cord with the casuals again. the one thing the article said that i can absolutely agree with - "it’s actually quite difficult to create something that resonates with the masses.." nintendo's past success is no guarantee of future performance.
