Did the Wii U force Sony to cut how much power the PS4 will have?

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miz1q2w3e said:

Torillian said:
While I think they're going for less of a power jump and therefore cheaper at launch than this gen, I don't think that has much to do with the Wii U's plan, I would hope that's what they'd do regardless because of how poorly the PS3 started out. You guys don't really think they had a 600 dollar sold at a loss monster all ready to go and saw the Wii U and thought "oh wait, shit, what were we thinking?" do you? I mean sure some people like to think Sony are idiots who only copy, but that just seems like an unreasonable assumption of stupidity.

Wii probably also had something to do with it. Wii and WiiU follow similar strategies anyways.

@bolded: Obviously not. They were probably observing the competition way before they got too far into development (even though you're obviously exaggerating). We've known about Wii U for a while now, and Wii's been here forever.

Intelligent company's don't work in such a rigid manor. They have to look for a route to long term profit, that doesn't always mean copying what was successfull. Sony cannot simply release an underpowerd system, comparable to the Wii U unless they have a killer USP. Otherwise it will essentially be nintendo 1st part vs Sony and although sony have made mistakes they're not stuid enough to think they can win that battle. Unless of course they've been investing heavily in more 1st party studios.