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

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Soundwave said:

Saying third parties weren't a key for the NES/SNES is written by someone who clearly was too young or not even born when the NES/SNES were out, lol.

The breadth of games was the no.1 reason the buy the NES back in the day. Sega had great games on the Sega Master System, everyone liked their arcade games, sure, but you didn't want to get stuck with a Sega because it didn't have all the games the NES did (good or bad, that meant Ninja Turtles, Batman, Metal Gear, Castlevania, Megaman 2, Blades of Steel, etc. etc.).

Nintendo has basically become Sega of the Master System era, basically trying to sell a platform on their own games, whereas the 360/PS3 sorta have morphed into the modern NES (widest variety of games, all the developer support).

You are only referring to the Wii being like the Sega Genesis, because the Wii U has great Western games with great Western 3rd Party Support.

The 3DS has the best Japanese 3rd Party Support and good Western 3rd Party Support. And the DS had great 3rd party support from both. GBA & GameCube had great 3rd Party support, but PS2 had even greater 3rd Party support.