AnthonyW86 said:
I'm just going to quote myself from another topic here:
''And then there's one MAJOR dissadvantage from what i fear will become a huge problem for the Wii-U: It's CPU architecture. Both PS4 and the next xbox will use the X86, and so does the PC on wich every game is developed basically. This means that once PS3 en X360 are going to start losing developer support Wii-U will be the only major system using IBM Power-PC architecture. Now tell me, how many developers do you think will bother to invest alot of time and money to port their games to a completely new architecture, having to downscale and reoptimize everything in the process because Wii-U is far less powerfull, just to port that game to one system with a mediocre install base? And also knowing that most of they're previous games didn't sell well on it's predecessors?The Wii-U will(and already is) losing developer support faster than it is gaining any. And looking at it's game release schedule it doesn't have much support to lose anymore.''
So in my opinion there's little hope the Wii-U will ever have a large amount of major games release for it, except for Nintendo's franchises. Now i would consider buying one for those Nintendo titles alone, but only for $100-$150 and as an extra system aside a PS4 or new Xbox.(and only after those titles are released).
Nintendo needs to take a step back from trying to innovate to much on the hardware and controll front and get back at creating great new games. We haven't seen a new big Nintendo franchise/universe in 15 years.
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Greenhill's MULTI IDE will stop that from being an issue. And all 3 consoles will have a similar architecture this gen passing floating point work to the GPU rather than the CPU. Developers are going to find it a great deal easier porting between the Wii U/PS4/720 than they are at the moment between the Wii U/PS3/360.
The Wii U won't have any problems getting ports of popular franchises this gen, albeit with a graphical downgrade - and the average man on the street probably won't be able to tell the difference between versions without seeing a side by side comparison. Think PC Medium settings vs Very High settings.
