| Mazty said:
Thing is, I can't see the Wii U being dominant whatsoever in the next few years, or even ever. We've yet to see it demonstate anything that puts it a generation ahead of the existing consoles and therefore gamers and customers will not want it as it offers nothing worth the asking price. If MS simply release a more powerful xbox that can kick out a much prettier CoD, that will crush the Wii U. Don't get me wrong, I hate CoD, but that crowd is a very dominant one in terms of marketing. |
People said exactly the same things about the Nintendo DS, 3DS and Wii ...
Nintendo is not run by morons, they have a fairly good picture of what Sony, Microsoft, and Valve can do and they felt confident with their approach with the Wii U. In my opinion, the likely reason for this is that the cost of producing a system that is significantly more powerful than the Wii U is too expensive to make a viable product and game development costs are too high to make these games profitable; and Nintendo is happy to let Sony and Microsoft product $500 or $600 systems with $70 to $80 games.
The Steambox will be interesting but I suspect it will be much more expensive up front that a typical game console because it will be manufactured by third parties who sell it for a profit; and a system that Microsoft would manufacture for $550 to sell for $400 will be sold as a Steam box for $700.
