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Soleron on 01 October 2012
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SlayerRondo said:
Soleron said:

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I have to disagree partly with some of the points you have raised

- Given that we dont fully know the power of the WiiU it is a bit early to assume what games do and dont use all its power.

We know it is at least as good as the PS360 and has a 1-2 year old midrange AMD GPU plus 3-core CPU plus 1GB of RAM. That's all good info to work from. Are there any other announced first-party games that will look better than what the Wii could put out?

- What console in History has launched with a game taking advantage of all its power?

Metroid Prime, Mario Sunshine, Rogue Squadron were all announced prior to Gamecube launch, and werern't exceeded in the console's lifetime. Where are the announced Wii U boundary-pushing games? Is it not reasonable to assume they don't exist?

- Yes the potential of the WiiU remotes screen has not been untilized to the best of its capabilities so far but has the DS not shown the potential of a second screen. The Wii motion controlls also were quite poor quality for what they claimed but a second screen is a second screen and we know what were getting.

I don't doubt the hardware. I doubt that any company, even Nintendo, will exploit the potential it gives us, precisely because they failed to constantly put out motion-using software for Wii and touchlscreen for DS. Those console's best games were more often than not avoiding the hardware feature. And no, no the DS has not shown that potential. Name some games that sold because of the second screen.

- Nintendo will only decrease game development for the WiiU if people stop buying games for the WiiU and thats in the event the console is already failing and therefore irrelevant.

They decreased it for GC when DS came out, DS when Wii came out and Wii when 3DS came out. Why would Nintendo stop now?

- The fact that third parties are putting games on the WiiU is a good sign that they are supporting the console.

There is no indication it will continue. GC and Vita had amazing announced support at launch that died immediately. At any rate their 'support' so far is not exclusives but instead late ports. When PS4/720 comes out don't you think they'll pack up and go there leaving Wii U to get downgraded ports or nothing at all?

- Maybe third parties will not bring all PS4/Xbox720 games to the WiiU and maybe all WiiU third party games wont end up on the PS4?Xbox720

You're right, we don't know. So why buy it until we know that support will be good even after the competition releases?

- Nintendo has the best first party line-up of either Sony or Microsoft in terms of critical acclaim and sales and therefore dont require the same level of third party support that PS4 and Xbox 720 will.

The Nintendo games that got critical acclaim actually sold very poorly last gen. Compare SMG to NSMB Wii, Metroid to AAA shooters on other consoles, Skyward to past Zelda games. What held up the Wii was the mediocrely reviewed games: NSMB Wii, Wii Sports, Wii Fit, MKWii. And yes NSMB U will hold up the console but if their plan is to make more 3D Mario/Zelda/Metroid instead of casual games that will NOT be enough to make it sell. This is regardless of how good those games are, I'm talking business.