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McDonaldsGuy on 19 January 2015
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CDiablo said:
McDonaldsGuy said:


- The weak hardware. What the heck Nintendo? It made sense for the Wii because of the controller. The Wii U does not have that luxury. They couldn't give us at least something that could be ALMOST near the PS4/One? Maybe a Dreamcast to the PS2? Instead we get something weaker than the Xbox 360 and PS3 and then Nintendo charges us $349 for it! What the heck were they thinking? Unbelievable.

Nintendo being a video game only company(for the most part) cannot afford to play the horsepower game that Sony and MS do. They cant afford the massive losses on hardware that the others do. Your "It made sense for the Wii because of the controller" line makes absolutely no sense. The Wii U is also more powerful than the PS360 overall. What they were thinking that the Wii crowd was largely the Nintendo fanbase, when in fact the real Nintendo fanbase is closer to what current sales are. I feel that Nintendo could have released a console 2x as powerful as X1/PS4 and the overall situation would not be much different.

There's 2 reasons I disagree with you:

a) If Nintendo is going to do the blue ocean strategy again, it needs to go full stop. The Wii U is not a blue ocean strategy product.

b) Nintendo has had powerful hardware before, and I think they could have gave us a pretty powerful console in 2012 for $349. Not PS4/Xbox One powerful, but something that could compete.