PS4 starts dominating - outsells WiiU and X1 combined (Read OP, please)

[el_gallo]

Kane1389 said:

1.Xbone does not have a better oniline service

2.You forgot about the fact you are paying for Live too, as well as other stuff like Netflix, for which you need to pay as well, so pay to pay. Yeah, completly better service

3.''Better games'' is subjective. Its not some sort of objective value. Besides, console is an investment. Nobody pays 400 or 500$ just to play launch titles

4. PC is a personal computer with many purposes, its not a closed dedicated piece of hardware like a console, it doesnt even have to be used for entertaiment at all. Its stupid to compare PC to any kind of electronic hardware really

The Wii U is fun and the tablet experience is much better than what's available by anyone else at the moment.

..exept for the actual tablets, of course.

  It also has something neither the ps4 or the xbox one has and that's backward compatibility...i do like to play some of my older games.  I actually would have paid extra for my xbox one for a version that has backward compatibility built right in.  I might even have considered the ps4 if it actually had real backward compatibility...(none of that streaming crap...i can just imagine the bandwidth overage charges i would get assuming my connection could even keep up with the streaming...and thats assuming it could hit 1080p so consistently).

Thats a fair point, altho the only reason Wii is backards compatible and the others arent is because Wii U is very outdated hardware by modern standards and thus its architecture is more compatible with the 7th gen hardware. PS4 and the xbone use more modern architecture that arent compatible with PS360

 

Let me tell you there is nothing my kids like more than the tablet on the WiiU. When I come in and declare that the 65 inch television in the living room is mine. They swap to the tablet and the day is saved per their reasoning.

Also the WiiU isn't backwards compatible due to an inferior archetechture. The archetechture they used is the same as was used on the Wii and also on the Xbox 360. It is a PowerPC varient. Sony and Microsoft choose to change their architechture for a number of reasons. One, in aligning more with the PC they made cross-platform development a bit easier. This is what Microsoft always wanted as seen with their original Xbox. Sony just wanted back in the game after almost going from first to worst with the PS3. Also both probably liked (as do a lot of people) what AMD is doing with their APU's because it is largely a single chip solution that is cheap, flexible and gives fair CPU power along with great GPU power.

Nintendo could have chosen to make the WiiU just as powerful as both consoles in terms of raw power but it is really clear they believe in a different experience. As an owner of both a Wii, WiiU and PS3 I endorse the Nintendo experience. I never hear fans nor a HD. It is clear as machines often used at party or similar type experiences that Nintedo stuff often travels and not having a HD or big size helps with that.

This picture was in another thread but it is clear Nintendo chooses power efficiency and size over raw power. People talk about how small Sony made the PS4 but look at the Wii U next to it and realize the Wii U is still bigger than the Wii. They could have chosen more power, bigger chips, more heat and everything around that bigger to justify the better, aka hard drives, etc. They make their choices for a different reason. Anytime you see four people playing together in a room it is almost always based around Nintendo. When you see a 13 year old (or grown equivalent) swearing at a screen alone in a room killing crap. That is almost always another solution that is not Nintendo.

In my family, this stuff doesn't even really get turned on unless multiple people are involved. For example we own CODBO2 but it never really gets played unless it is with two people. Sitting in a room alone killing time and virtual people just seems so sad.