Team Ninja: Wii U console is next-gen

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KungKras said:

Mazty said:
“The Wii U is an infant that’s just been born. It’s a little unfair to compare it to mature platforms that people have been working on for over five years."

Not really. When the 360 came out PGR3 blew everything else out of the water in terms of graphics. If the Wii U wants to prove itself as being next gen, then it needs a title that clearly does this. In terms of efficiency it's clearly next gen shaving 100W off the load of the 360, but which gamer really cares about that?

Why does graphics have to be the only innovation determining what is next-gen?

Wii was next-gen, and so is Wii U. The motion controls of the Wii changed gaming far more than the HD graphics of the HD twins.

You are wrong to think it changed gaming... for a brief moment in time it got a lot of new people playing and some of them are still playing. It was an audience expansion, not an audience conversion.

The audience that converted favored the change to HD graphics and other perks on HD twins more than the motion control gimmick of any console.