Tarumon said:
Vita's specs are just as overwhemling to the 3DS as the Next Twins will be to Wii U. Wii U has much less competition than Sony or MSFT faces in their own coopetition. If one of them dares not going all out and have the other have all the bragging rights, then it's spam sandwich time. Nintendo with its family friendly, living room uniting image, and not to mention budget friendly, will help crush the crippled twin. It's a predictament that until broken (at extreme cost to the loser) means HD Twins dominate thr 60% less profitably in a red ocean while Nintendo prints profits with the other 40% in their blue sea. Nintendo's pricing or marketing merely decides how soon they mobilize their potential buyers just as 3DS proved. If you think it is hard to upsell Nintendo's stuff, try having then HD Twin move down market. Kinect or Move added even more cost just to imitate what Wii was able to do with the basic package. PS2 was the right model of balance, the current trend of cut throat technology, the nonsense of future proving consoles have served up a stagnant video game world, where 3rd party spends gazillions on polygon bragging rights. To me SE epitomizes the problems of this gen.
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dude it's been 1 GEN. You remember before the Wii gimmick caught on? It was 60m NES to 40 million SNES to 32 million N64 to 21 million GC. If Nintendo can't capture that audience that likes their Ipads and Iphones a lot they will be down to around 50m this gen. They will be cheapest I'm sure, but so was GC and N64. They never lose at handhelds, but home consoles are a different monster. If Sony and MS both launch at $400 then WiiU will only $50 less expensive. Nintendo isn't stupid so they'll cut the deluxe to $300 most likely, but they need some HD Zelda or 3d Mario next year to get people to choose them over PS3 or 360 because people will look at third party games getting ported over from those systems (comparable in power minus the RAM) and just get the cheaper 7th gen over WiiU, unless Gamepad really catches on more than it looks to be doing right now.