The mobile market shows the danger of parity

[Smear-Gel]

Intrinsic said:

Smear-Gel said:
There's no way to remedy this because sales of a game on one platform will be greatly affected by people thinking the experience is too different.

The Wii U isn't all that weaker than other 8th Gen consoles and 3rd party sales are still cannibalized by differing experiences. Widening that gap will affect sales for every console.

The answer would be to have more exclusive games on each system to push hardware but that also has problems. People only like exclusives when it's on the console they own and companies like widening the install base.

I generally agree with all you said with exception to the part I bolded. The wiiU is really that much weaker when compared to other 8th gen consoles in every single sense of the word. Ths isn't even a discussion, there isn't one single minute hardware detail that the wiiU does better than any of the other 8th gen consoles, and where it pales it pales by a lot. What the wiiU has got oing for it is that majority of its games are exclusives so its never in those situations where direct comparisons can be made between it and other 8th gen consoles. There is a certain level of IQ you will see on the PS4/XB1 that you will just never see on the wiiU. And anyone that thinks this isn't true, probably only has a wiiU and not the other 8th gen consoles. 

 

I dont know or care enough about game specs to argue this at all, but either way it doesnt really mess up my argument too much.