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curl-6 on 03 February 2013
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Corey said:
Nirvana_Nut85 said:
PS1 - weakest console
PS2 - weakest console
Wii - weakest console

Can you tell me what they all have in common besides what was stated above?

If I was a betting man I'd say regardless of what is happening now, in 5 years the Wii U will be added to that list and the industry will be perfectly fine.


The PS1 was only marginally weaker and the Sega Dreamcast was the weakest of the PS2 generation.

The Wii on the otherhand was a whole generation behind but had motion control and wii sports, which at the time really appealed to the mass market, that's what made the Wii sell, it's level of power was irrelevant. The WiiU is a different story, not only is it going to be vastly behind tech wise but it's new "innovative" controller does not have the same appeal to the mass market that the wiimote had.

The wiiu so far offers very little in comparison to current generation consoles, it's not going to fare well against the next gen systems from Sony and Microsoft.

We don't know that yet, and it almost certainly won't be the same kind of gap as between the Wii and PS360 because at least this time the Wii U uses industry standards like programmable pixel shaders instead of the Wii's quirky TEV system which devs struggled with, which means porting from PS4/720 to Wii U will most likely be much easier than porting from PS360 to Wii.