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HoloDust on 23 May 2013
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Zero999 said:
HoloDust said:

I think in theory WiiU could get much more support - then again (I posted this in some other thread) I think it's really the combination of 2 separate problems with 3rd party support and WiiU - first being user base, and second being weak hardware. Later cannot be changed (unfortunately), otherwise I believe we would most certainly see way more support no matter the user base, but I'm not sure that problem number 1 will (or could) be fixed any time soon.

As for development, the way things look now, I'm not so certain One will be lead platform...unlike current gen where 360 had more or less the same power as PS3, but was much easier to work with, PS4 seems to have quite a bit more power that can be easily tapped...and devs seems to like it a lot.

ps4 and one's userbase is 0 right now. and weaker than competition =/= weak.

Its not actually the size of user base I was referring to, but rather their buying habits. As Wii has shown, you can put CoD on it, but still, no matter the huge user base, it will sell only small fraction of what it sold on platforms that have user bases that are, though smaller, actually interested in buying those type of titles.

That's where 2nd problems kicks in - WiiU's hardware is much, much, much closer to PS360 than to XOne/PS4, and for the next-gen standards that is really weak. If WiiU performed (as some were hoping for way back in a day, myself included) at the level of HD4850-4870 (or equivalent), most 3rd parties would have no problems porting easily to it, no matter the user base.