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DevilRising on 05 November 2013
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LiquorandGunFun said:
DevilRising said:
LiquorandGunFun said:
They would be better off improving the HD tech in the development area and rev up a new system on par with the ps4. Wait a year or 2 more and release it for $300 with a slew of bad ass nintendo games forcing the hand of the multiplatform devs to recognize.


No. Not really. Not at all. Would it have benefitted them with third parties to have a more powerful CPU, and even more RAM? Sure. But even as it is, it still has a healthy amount of RAM, and a fairly strong GPU. If Nintendo pulled a Sega and abandoned new hardware to try and release more powerful hardware in the next couple of years, they would be fools, as the whole endeavor would cost them more as a company than they'd likely make off of either system in the long-term.

 

What they're "better off" doing, is what they should have been doing all along: Releasing more and more games, and advertising the goddamn console.

Its going to take more than just nintendo games and the devs have made it clear its a shortfall.


No, they literally haven't. Third party support has lessened because the system sales hit the brakes from Jan. 2013 onward. They were all-in at launch, and while most of that was ports, many of them were ports of games that just came out on other consoles, only a couple being older ports. The issue companies like EA have with Wii U has nothing to do with it's lesser power compared to PS4. It has everything to do with game sales so far, for better or worse. That is EA's attitude, and while I don't think they should have pulled all support for the "time being" (as they say), it is what it is. The fact of the matter is, EA supported Wii very strongly, even though the power gap between Wii and PS3 was MUCH larger than what will exist between the Wii U and PS4.

The PS4 is more powerful, no doubt, no one is saying it's not. But the Wii U is far more capable of "holding it's own", graphically speaking, against the next gen competition, than Wii was. That isn't the issue. The issue is and will remain the level at which third party games sell on Wii U, and that needs to improve for support to improve.