kain_kusanagi said:
Well all things are relative. Sure by the time a product hits the market there's better stuff in the pipe. What I meant is the Wii U isn't the step up many would expect. The PS3 and Xbox 360 were huge improvements on the PS2 and Xbox. That's the kind of generational leap people like to see. The Wii U is definitely more powerful than the PS3 and 360, but it's more like the difference between the Wii and Gamecube. It worked with the Wii because the whole motion controls fad went mainstream. I'm not sure people are going to be fighting over Wii U's this Christmas while MS and Sony will most certainly launch true next generation hardware within a year. The Wii U will seem like a huge leap forward to people who only had a Wii this gen, but to those still playing all the new games on their PS3's and Xbox 360's it will seem like noticeable yet marginal improvement. I'm going to get a Wii U because I always get every Nintendo console to play Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. I'm just going to wait for those gems before I spend my money. I'm one of those Nintendo fans that doesn't really care how powerful the hardware is becuase Mario, Zelda, and Metroid are always great. But it's not fans like me that Nintendo has to convine. Nintendo has to get all the PS3 and Xbox 360 users to switch because all those soccer moms and grandparents who played Wii Fit and Wii Sports aren't coming back. That fad has died. Now Nintendo has to convince PS360 players to abandon their achievements and trophies and switch to a machine they expect to be made obsolete by the next machines that will have their achievements and trophies. |
Honestly, I don't think the Wii U is as innovative in its hardware as it is with its software this time around. Its hardware is what seems to be really pushing software usage and it seems pretty obvious by the fact that they have actually confirmed the Wii U has 2 GB of RAM, 1 GB of RAM being reserved for the operating system. That's a lot.
