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DélioPT on 30 January 2013
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DanneSandin said:
DélioPT said:
 

Why do you think Wii U will look outdated? No one knows exactly what Wii U is capable of.
The launch games aren`t an example of Wii U`s power. Take out the ports and you are left with ZombiU, Mario, NLand and Scribblenauts. And none of those games was made to take advantage of Wii U`s power.
Now, if you look at WW and X...

MS could take a hit. But even then, they spent a few number of years in the red and the question is: after R&D, all the years in Red, did it pay off? How much?
Sony can`t even lower the price of Vita let alone do another PS3. It would seriously hurt them.

CoD is both a core game as it is a casual`s friend. Even if both consoles release before the next CoD, the userbase will be small and probably sold out at first. Wii U will pose a better alternative.
More, i doubt they will release in time for all the big holiday games. Leaving room for PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii U.

PS2 had the DVD player and that alone was very big at the time! Not to mention it was super anticipated.

Yes, no one knows what the Wii U is capable of yet, and neither does anyone know what PS720 will be able to do... I do think that if the difference between WiiU and PS720 is rather noticeable, Wii U will not have much of a chance selling 3rd party games - and that will in the end hurt the consoles sales. But I agree that WW remake and X is looking gooood!

YEah, I don't think either of MS or Sony is willing to take a big hit this gen; maybe MS, since they seem determined to own the living rooms. I don't think Sony can take a hit of more than $50/console. But will this mean that they can't produce a console that is more powerful than Wii U?

I figure that most of CoD sales will be done on the PS360, and won't start to seriously shift until next year...

Yeah, PS2 and PS3 probably got a boost in sales because of DVD/Blu-ray, and PS4 will not have any features like that to sell it - buuut having said that, they did acquire Gaikai, meaning that game streaming could be a big push for the system...

Power is not the issue. Both PS1 and PS2 dominated the market and they were the inferior console.
They won because they knew how to appeal to the market. As in: it`s all about the games!

If MS does intent to capture that market is now with a high price and a better Kinect that they are going to do it.
Sony will put out a great console. The question is at what cost?

My idea is that the next CoD will also make most of its sales on PS3 and Xbox 360 and for, probably, a short term, Wii U`s sales will be second.

I don`t think streaming games will change anything. Take OnLive`s example. It was cheap but only a segment of the market had the right conditions to take advantage of that.