What If Wii U Was a Full-On Generational Leap?

[DanneSandin]

archbrix said:

Soundwave said:

DanneSandin said:
Nintendo have done this before. That's when people started to think Nintendo should have dropped out of making consoles. This is what N64 and GC were: power beasts of their era, and it didn't really put them in a good spot.

GameCube launched 18 months after the PS2 though. 

N64 would've destroyed the PSOne IMO if Nintendo hadn't crippled it with cartridges-only, and even then that was a year after. 

Good points, but the thing is no matter how powerful Nintendo made WiiU, Microsoft could still outperform it due to the fact that their console would be releasing a year later and they have more to spend on tech to boot. 

But I think the main problem with this philosophy is that Nintendo would be following the pattern of what the others do, rather than setting a standard themselves.  While not everyone is sold on the WiiU Gamepad, we've already seen Sony and Microsoft respond with press statements and Smartglass functionality in ways that suggest, "Hey, our systems can do that too!" rather than "Aww, that's stupid... no one wants that".  Says a lot, IMO.

I thought this was I good answer/post so I decided to people should read it twice ^^ What speaks in Nintendo's favor is the fact that MSony have tried to emulate the GamePad in one way or another.