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Mummelmann on 10 October 2012
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Well, Reggie says a lot of things. Great 3rd party support? I'm not so sure about that, still remains to be seen, we were waiting for that the entire 7th gen but it never came, despite the Wii devastating the competition. Its been made a whole lot easier for 3rd parties this time around but I can only think of the age-old expression; "where there's a will there's a way". 3rd parties never wanted to support the Wii, they perfectly well could have, and I have a feeling that even with the technical aspect being a lot simpler as far as multiplatform development goes, they simply won't pull out the big guns and give Nintendo their undivided attention.

I also think this statement means trouble; "Its based on having great graphics." Yeah, that sure worked for Nintendo in the past. The Wii U is more mainstream and forced than the Wii ever was and thus will never be able to attain the level of success it (Wii) had. Nintendo is simply trying to catch Sony and MS on tech and that tactic will end badly, especially when the others get around to releasing their own consoles.

There is nothing to suggest that the Wii U will be anywhere near as successful as the Wii. Will it able to fend of the next PS and X-box, though? Hard to say, we don't know what they're offering yet, nor do we know what the market will bring in the coming years and how it will change, also add in a possible fourth contender on the home console market as a wildcard and we know truly nothing.

samuship; I think that the Wii U will have a shorter life than the Wii, the Wii was the market leader from very early on, broke records and made Nintendo ridiculous amounts of money and they were still first out the gates with a replacement (like certain people predicted, the whole sales curve was foreseen by some). There's also the simple fact that the market keeps moving faster and is branching out, leading to all three console of the 8th gen having short lives, we'll never see PS2 level support ever again in the market.