Digital Foundry - Nintendo Wii U review

[Mr Khan]

Munkeh111 said:

Player1x3 said:
Honestly, I never understood why people buy systems when they're getting launched... You pay much more for a console with less features and a veeery small catalogue of games.

The guy who bought a Ps3 in 2010/11 got a lot more bang for his buck than the guy who bought it in 2006/7. Same goes for Wii, and don't even get me started on 360

Impatience! I know that if I waited 1 or 2 months after the launch of every game, I could save myself 40-50% on the cost of games, but new things are exciting!

I don't see why people really expected the Wii U to take that much of a graphical leap, Nintendo is not really interested in that. The only question is when the PS4/720 are released, will it still get "HD" ports? If not, I forsee a similar situation to the Wii in terms of 3rd party support. The concern sales-wise would be, as the review says, that there is currently no killer app for the Game Pad to cause huge sales like Wii Sports did

Its not going to be quite the same. As i outlined in another thread, in terms of CPU/GPU and memory, Wii U is going to be much more similar to the competition than Wii was to PS360, even if the difference is going to be noticeable. Also: Math fact: for the Wii U -> Orbis/Durango gap to the same as the Wii -> PS360 gap, Orbis/Durango would have to host 12 GB of RAM.