Iwata Is Aware That People Believe That WiiU Is Underpowered And Says This Is A Misunderstanding

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AnthonyW86 said:

g911turbo said:

ethomaz said:

It is a good job compared to PS360 but underpowered compared to PS4/Nextbox.

I think the Wii U will produce some great visuals.  There is a law of diminishing returns in effect here, so while there is no doubt that the PS4 is more powerful than the Wii U (even without knowing exactly what's under the Wii U hood), is is slightly subjective as to what is underpowered or not.

For example, I have a Porsche 911.  You have a Nissan Altima.  Is the Altima underpowered or is the Porsche over powered?  If money is no object, the choice is clear, but of course at the end of the day money matters.  MANY would argue the Porsche is a waste of money / power etc.  

Nintendo made a "risky" move for a second time in a row with an alternative take on a controller.  Will it pay off again?  Only time will tell.  But the porting games from the PS4 to Wii U should be even easier than it was porting from the PS3 to the Wii.  Developers are not doing so because they don't see the return on investment being there (yet, if ever), not because the system is "underpowered". 

Yes there is and PS4 doesn't pass the point where it takes into effect. When it comes to power consumption it is exactly at the right spot power/performance wise, atleast in the graphics department. The same goes for price/performance. Let's say the cpu/gpu of the PS4 is 4 times as expensive to produce but it's 6 times as fast. Then the returns are greater than the investment.

power hungry mongers will always use this type of argument to justify whether or not something as powerful as the PS4 is right, but never take into consideration anything other than that. For all we know, Wii U could be only slightly less powerful than the PS4 (not accounting for the ammount of RAM). I mean, its not as if we've seen true Wii U games yet. All we've seen are ports, really rushed games, and a few Nintendo stylized games. But if you look at a game like X for the Wii U, we can start to see that the difference in hardware specs may not make a huge difference in graphical capabilities this gen between those two consoles.