Nuvendil said:
First, it is more powerful than the PS3 that "hardly." It is notably more powerful. The law of diminishing returns has just eroded the effects. Most people forget that the really good looking games on PS3 often ran either at sub-720p native or 30fps (regularly not met) target or even both. Meanwhile Nintendo hasn't pulled those shenanigans yet so comparisons aren't entirely fair if you are going to only stare at texture resolutions or poly counts. Second, it is *still* more powerful. If the Wii U had been, say, 40% more powerful than the Wii or some nonsense, it would have done even worse than it has. FAR worse. And besides, the PS4 will be an easy mark to pass in 2018 or even 2017. Tech prices are falling and PS4 uses the less efficient (although admitedly more convenient) x86 architecture. So Nintendo should be able to surpass PS4 then easily while still offering the console at a competitive price. |
That's fine but I don't think Nintendo has any interest in making games with that level budget.
If they want to compete with Sony they have to make a system on par with the Playstation FIVE (yes 5). Not PS4.
No one will care that Nintendo is launching their version of the PS4 like 4 years later anymore than people who own a PS3/360 are impressed with a Wii U (read: they're not).
Nintendo is just going to exit that whole pissing match entirely I think. Zero interest from them on making games with a monstrous PS4 sized budgets too (some of those games are going to end up costing the same as a Hollywood movie). To be honest most of their games really don't even push the Wii U to its max, Mario Kart 8 and Xenoblade are probably the only two that really make the system work hard.
Fusion will be mainly a portable platform that has slightly better than Wii U graphics (just like the GCN to Wii transition). If you dislike handhelds or also want to play your Fusion library at home on your TV ... they will offer a home variant using the same chipset, just overclocked/with more cores IMO. But it will just be more like a bonus thing, not a life-or-death/must-sell platform.
That's what we're headed towards.
Who knows too there could be other changes coming to what we think is a traditional hardware model. Like for example say Nintendo not only adopts Apple's concept of a unified platform structure, but how about new model hardware that is upgraded every few years? The New 3DS kinda hints at this, and it makes Apple a ton of money. Perhaps you'll see Fusion 1 in 2016, and Fusion 2 in 2018 or 2019 and Fusion 3 sometime after.
Nintendo may have made some of the "rules" of the traditional hardware market, but that doesn't mean they're married to any of them, especailly when a lot of these concepts aren't work for them anymore.
