Iwata Asks: Wii U (Hardware Devs + A look Inside the Wii U hardware)

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Soundwave said:

I kinda wish Nintendo had made this Wii U instead:

Axe the disc drive -- looks like it takes half the case. Use 3DS like cards, 16GB cards would be fine for most games and cost nothing, while 32GB is cheap too and that would be equivalent to a Blu-Ray disc.

Beef up the CPU/GPU. I know power efficiency is a big deal, but really would it be so bad if the console sucked 60W versus 35W? If they had done that they probably could've gone with more horsepower under the hood and flat out destroyed the PS3/360 without question.

I think Nintendo is too extreme with emphasizing the power requirements. Even if it is a big deal, you can always scale the power consumption down with later models.

Yeah but if you remove the disc drive then you lose backward compatibility.  That wouldn't go over well.  Personally I wouldn't have a problem with it... but backward compatibility tends to be a big deal during the first few years of new consoles when original games are in short supply.