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dahuman said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
prayformojo said:
I'm a Nintendo fan, as I've owned every console they've released since the NES. I'm 33, so to me, they are basically the company of my childhood. Having said that? This is the first console I had little interest in. I don't like how they're trying to go for us core gamers, whilist releasing an underpowered system with no achievements, no great online connectivity like XBL, no multimedia capabilities like DVD and Blu-Ray play back etc. It's almost like they just don't WANT hardcore gamers anymore.

I love Nintendo and their franchises, but I just know it's going to suffer. The power of the system is going to cripple it and 3rd parties are going to jump ship like they have been doing since the N64. I honestly see this console finishing last, like the Gamecube.


This. Crippled is definitely the word to describe the Wii U once the next Playstation and Xbox come out. They will be fully harnessing the newest engines without being dumbed down, so I feel for Nintendo. Hopefully they put out some quality titles to keep peoples minds off of the excessive graphics and focusing on solid gameplay. The Wii had some but not nearly enough. God I miss the PSX/PS2 era. The Wii U feels like its going to be a N64 type console. Nintendo was never known for harnessing their consoles power even when they were more powerful than the competition.

The thing is, I don't see the next xbox and ps coming out until at least 2014 with the new roadmap GPUs on the PC side (if you follow the roadmap of GPU makers aka Nvidia and AMD, you'd have noticed already, they'd be the weaker versions of the PC GPUs which are supposedly the huge step up in 2014-2015) , by then the Wii U would have been out for 2 years already, it's unrealistic to think they'd come out in 2013 as there is not even any real announcements by now. Coming out in 2013 would make their systems on par with the Wii U, they need to wait about 2 more years to be realistically a step further in the power department.

Of course, power is not why I buy consoles, power is what PCs are for, if people can afford it lol.


I say one will come in 2013 and the other 2014. It will probably be Sony launching first as they cannot afford not to.