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A203D on 23 February 2013
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Hito564 said:
A203D said:
Well it seems like the Xbox 720 will have 8GB. The PS4 has 8GB. The problem with Nintendo is that their console has 1-2GB of RAM, not to mention other specs that I don't know much about.

Its their own fault because they made more money than Sony and Microsoft with the Wii, they had the resources to come up with a console on par with their consoles, instead of creating a console thats going to be outclassed by the PS4 and the Xbox 720 in the a space of one year.


Nintendo never had a chance considering their current philosophy. To go from the Wii to a PS4-type console is quite possible, but it would be far too giant of a leap in terms of development costs in my opinion. It would be fair to say that Nintendo should have prepared for HD development years in advance, but what you are asking also took the the industry at least five-six years to fully understand the capabilities of the PS360. So it would be like asking Nintendo to fast track over that part and start making games on par with next-gen tech demos now which is unreasonable. Though, I'm sure third parties would appreciate the hardware.

Personally, I'm not that concerned with third parties. Their first party software and exclusives are much more valueable. The Wii money should be used to expand and start up new studios to gain more developers and increase their software output.

You make a good point, I myself am considering getting a Wii U and a PS4. The first part exclusives and the backwards compatability are good reasons to own the console.

And Nintendo didn't necessarily have to from Wii to PS4 architecture. I mean it looks like that 8GB of PS4 memory is partly because of the Share feature which I would imagine takes a bit of memory. We don't know how much memory developers are allowed to utilise for the PS4 memory. It might not be the full 8GB, not to mention memory for the OS.

Its possible Nintendo could have given the Wii U 4GB of memory and still secured third party games without any of the specialist online features Microsoft and Sony are going for. They could have made it slightly less powerful than both consoles, kept the price cheaper and still secured the same third party games.

Nintendo make good games, but personally the games that I mostly look forward to are third party games. But you never know, we all thought the Wii would fail but it didn't, the Wii U is getting Watch Dogs, it is possible they will also get similar third party games.