Why PS4 won't be cutting edge, and neither will Xbox3 - or Why Nintendo might win next gen

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Mummelmann said:

Now, on to 3rd party support.
There is nothing to suggest that the WiiU will fare better than the Wii in terms of 3rd party support, what it will likely get in heaps instead is late PS360 ports to begin with. Very few 3rd parties will have the balls and patience, and not to mention desire, to utilize the GamePad is a meaningful way, thus leading to a situation similar to that of the Wii-mote; a brilliant controller which never realized its potential at all.
The way the Wii has simply gone and died at the end of the cycle and been crushed by the competition, with even Nintendo themselves not giving a damn (apparently) any longer is sure to make the already timid 3rd parties even more sceptical, and the few chances the Wii got to show its muscles as far as moving multiplatform titles with some actual effort put into it in any actual numbers have also come up lacking. (Remember when people said that Nintendo would follow their pattern and suddenly drop the console in favor of a new one/new one's? Guess what? It happened again, right on cue, Nintendo aren't as reformed as many would like to think sometimes).

I'm leaving the rest of your post aside because I agree with what you say, but I don't think the GamePad and the Wiimote will face the same fate.

And the reason is obvious: the gamepad has all the features that a regular controller have, plus the screen. It's not like the wiimote, which suffered from the lack of buttons and caused problems for third parties, "how do we make the player to crouch? - Just press L3... oh, wait". It's true that many devs may not want to think in original ways to use the screen, but for those there is always the simple yet functional and useful option to simply show a map or the inventory on it.

Even more. If devs want to make games/ports that need more processing power than what WiiU is usually able to give them, showing only a map or the inventory or even the stats of our character on the GamPad's screen will free a lot of resorces as, instead of having to render 2 demanding frames for each screen they will only have 1, giving them the extra power needed for those games.