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MakeAmazing on 20 January 2013
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CCFanboy said:
MakeAmazing said:I can tell you now, there is no way this is going to happen. No one is talking about the wii-u being the lead platform for the next set of consoles, because Nintendo decided they were going to put only a similar hardware level to the current Ps3/Xbox consoles. They will be working like they normally do, with the intention of releasing the games on PS4/Xbox720 and PC, If there are PS3/Xbox duel releases then the wii-u might get them, but Nintendo have waited too long to release the Wii-U and it being underpowered means that it will get left behind by 3rd parties again. 


Can you absolutely 100 % garuntee that though? When you release a new console things start over. This is what the majority say and the majority have been proven wrong four times in a row. In fact everything the majority said the exact opposite happened.

That theory is throwing around the same theory that was being thrown around last time. Its just being twisted because of what happened now. I remember when people were saying 360 would become irrelevant and lose third party support the second ps3 comes out. This time its when the others come out. You are only adding xbox into the theory now because it proved successful.

Wii u will suffer from the lack of power in some ways but it won't be on the scale it was with wii. Its too expensive.

No one can be absolutely sure... but I feel pretty confident....maybe 99.9% sure that the Wii-U will not be the lead platform for any major 3rd party game :) 

Think about it for a moment, three devices will be technically closer together and easier to develop for, the PS4/Xbox720 and the PC. If one of those is choosen as the lead platform, say due to sales, then it is easier to convert to the other two, while they will have to downscale and downsize to the wii-u (not an easy feat trying to make a game run at a good FPS on a machine with less grunt). 

To be honest, you can mention what some fanboys said about the Xbox being crushed by the PS3 when it was released, but technically from a power point of view its similar in performance terms to the PS3. Did any major game that came out on the PS3/Xbox/Wii have the Wii as the lead platform.. I cant think of any can you (let's not say some dance game please :). 

Lets look at it from the other direction, gaming engines...  many of the major engines have suggested their next gen engines *could* run on the wii-u, but won't for business reasons or they have no plans... I think this is makes it quite clear what the major players are thinking.