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Legend11 said:
Those titles releasing now and in the next 10 months are incredibly important because they could be enough to tide people over until the other consoles are released and that would pretty much take away any advantage Nintendo might have had by releasing early. Then it becomes a matter of what compromises Nintendo had to make to launch earlier becoming disadvantages. I think both the next Xbox and Playstation consoles are going to be significantly more powerful than WiiU so it will all come down to people choosing between better graphics, AI, physics, etc or a controller that offers the possibility of better interaction with games. As for third parties they will go where the core gamers go so November/December 2013 will pretty much decide the future of console gaming. If we see a significant shift of core gamers to the next Xbox/Playstation to play Call of Duty on those platforms then the vast majority of third parties and AAA games will move to those platforms and the specs they have. If core gamers instead opt to get a WiiU because they feel the WiiU Gamepad will make a better experience for them then WiiU will be the lead console for many AAA third party games. It's not going to matter in 2014 and 2015 because it's all going to be decided before that. People tend to want to play online games with their friends so it'll be a snowball effect for whichever side wins at the end of 2013. As for those that argue about budgets, it's the same arguement that was had between Wii and 360/PS3 and what we've seen is that publishers go where the audience is regardless of the budget. |
I'm unsure how you're using the term "core gamer." Do you mean video game hobbyist? Surely those people will buy all three systems.
