Iwata: Nintendo Wants To "Suprise Gamers" With NX

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Materia-Blade said:

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It's better looking than any game on Wii U outside maybe 2 or 3 total (one of which hasn't even been released yet). 

Xenoblade X or MK8 are not the "standard" looking Wii U title either ... more like something like LEGO City is what the average Wii U game looks like. 

Nintendo should've just ditched the Game Pad idea and made it an accessory (when you're 3 years in and you don't even have one killer app for a controller ... the controller was bad idea, sorry Nintendo) and just used a more modified PC GPU like the 4850 which was freaking 4 years old by the time the Wii U came out but would run circles around a Wii U. Maybe on a 28nm manufacturing process to reduce electricity. 

They would've had a system far more powerful than the Wii U. 

"I'm going to buy this console because it consumes less electricity" ... said no one ever, other than maybe the Greenpeace audience, who probably don't buy consoles to begin with. Stupid design decisions all around. 

3d world, bayo 2, tropical freeze, smash bros (less graphics but 1080p 60fps), zelda, star fox (possibly).

"a more modified PC GPU like the 4850 which was freaking 4 years old by the time the Wii U came out but would run circles around a Wii U"

since you are clearly underestimating wii u's gpu, that's also not true. and taking the gamepad away would just increase specs a little if the money was reinvested.

3D World and Bayo 2 look nice but they're not head and shoulders beyond the top tier PS3/360 games. 

They basically look like what you'd expect ... games that are running on a system that might have about 40% more GFLOPS than a 360 with double the RAM. In fact they're pretty much exactly the performance/look I'd expect if you told be "well what do you think a system that was 100 GFLOPS more powerful than a 360 with double the RAM would look like?". 

Bayonetta 2/3D World is pretty much what I'd expect. 

DKC is nothing special, nice art style but it looks like a Wii game on steroids, not sure why they couldn't get that to run at 1080P. 

$100 that could've been put into the chipset is no small thing. The PS4 chip itself is maybe $100, that money invested into the chipset instead of the silly controller that they themselves haven't used in any compelling way would have easily doubled, maybe even tripled the system's horsepower easy.