retroking1981 on 04 March 2014
| bonzobanana said: Personally I think the advantage is the wii u. When you pull the wii u apart there is nothing in it of value hardware wise. It's a very cheap design. This means Nintendo have the option at selling it at a lower price more easily and consoles sell in far larger numbers at lower prices. The wii u can easily compete at a price level of 360 and PS3 and performs to the same level too. This christmas I think the wii u pricing and bundling will be more aggressive. Xbox one despite being weaker than ps4 isn't much cheaper to manufacture I'm guessing. The extra money that Sony pays for fast GDDR5 chips is probably similar to the kinect cost of xbox one. The extra GPU performance of the ps4 is merely using the silicon that is used for the 32MB of embedded memory in the xbox one to compensate for slow DDR memory. Microsoft needs pricing between wii u and ps4 but they are probably going to try to hang on to pricing close to ps4 which I don't think they will succeed with. Nintendo have lost most third party support and will get pretty desperate to sell wii u's I believe. Nintendo will be forced back into aggressive pricing like the N64 and Gamecube era. The wii u's success will come from being a low cost secondary console in many homes or a console for younger children. Microsoft have other revenue streams and xbox one success is not as critical for them. |
You forgot about the Gamepad.
Essentially they both have a similar problem, a forced accessory no one wants keeping the price higher than it should and ultimately needs to be.
