Wii U TRUE POWER..:

[justinian]

I am a Nintendo fan too but I think they made some wrong decisions.

I admit any fool can say that in hindsight and my thinking is indeed based on hindsight.

I honestly wanted the console to be more powerful and thought it would be. The wii did well because of the innovative control which outweighed it's weak processing capabilities.
I don't think wii u going to do that this time around.

I understand (or think I do) that Nintendo want to concentrate on the fun aspects of gaming. You can have fun games without a powerful console and this is true.

MS and Sony seem to aim for more realism in games. Meaning they want their games to look, feel and act as real as possible (within the confines of cost and technology). This equates to the need for more processing power. Developers it seems too want to develop games that look and feel more real. Nintendo seem unable to grasp this concept these days.

It simply comes down to what the consumers ( and to a larger degree the gamers within those consumers ) want.
I have no evidence to support my theory but I am beginning to suspect that right now most of those consumers want raw power and more beautiful and realistic games. In other words a true generation gap that the wii u has so far fail to produce.

By releasing the console early Nintendo has also given MS and Sony a chance to see and gather info on the public's reaction to the wii u. It may be not a lot of time but enough for them to react in a small way should they need to.

I hope the wii u sells well and there is a big enough niche market for it, based on Nintendo games. As for third party support it is looking it might be heading the same way as the wii, plenty of promises to support but little action.