Scisca said:
3rd parties abandoned Wii U for a number of reasons and lack of power and different architecture are among them. You can't deny simple, obvious facts only because they don't suit you. Jump from Wii to Wii U... the thing is, nearly nobody was making that jump with Nintendo. Wii casuals left home console gaming and gamers who owned Wii also owned a PS360 or a PC. This is a business and it's the point of view of the customers that matters, not the one of the company. And Wii U was only a jump for Nintendo, not for the gamers. @PS3 having a different architecture - read my piece on it in my previous post. It was a different market, a different time and games had a different budget. And it was a problem even back then. PS3 got worse ports very often, it didn't get some games at all (Witcher 2 for example - CD Project RED officially said they didn't plan any future games in that gen, so there was no point in learning how to write the game on PS3 and its ridiculous architecture). The market changed a lot since the PS2, Sony is changing with it, Nintendo isn't. If Nintendo remains so arrogantly stubborn, it will be b!tchslapped again. Nobody in the industry needs Nintendo anymore, so nobody is going to care about their weird shenanigans. I know Nintendo made many mistakes. You really aren't discovering America when telling me, that a console for $250 would sell better, then the same console costing $350 (and lets not forget it's this expensive because Nintendo are cheap bastards by default). But saying that power was never an issue in one paragraph and then giving examples of it being a very important factor (games looking previous-gen) you make no sense. And it's inevitable, because power is an issue in this business. It is one of the main issues, not the only one - the ones you list are important as well, but power is important. If you think it doesn't matter, then please tell me what other innovation of the PS4 was so incredible that the console is setting charts on fire at $400? What else makes it wipe the floor with Wii U and Xbone? Is it Knack? You know as much about NX as I do - nothing. I've heard way too many times that "Nintendo has learned its lesson". They supposedly learned it with the 3DS and made sure there would be no droughts with the Wii U. We know how that turned out... So when it comes to Nintendo, I'll believe it, when I see it. When it comes to home consoles Nintendo just isn't Sony, you can't just buy their console and be 100% sure you're covered. That's the heritage Sony and Nintendo gained in the previous gen. I for one hope Nintendo takes a few pages from the company that manhandles them for the majority of the last two decades (in home consoles) and is set to do that in the upcoming years. It would be humiliating to release a console 3 years after PS4 and still make it inferior - after all, PS4 is no technological marvel. With technology advancing, they can get something more powerful yet competitively priced and they have to take advantage of it, or the PS4 will steamroll two Nintendo home consoles in one generation. |
Of Course it wouldn't make any difference because Wii U had bigger problems than power. Its was not problem for PS4/Xbox One because games games for them looked better and console had higher price than PS3/Xbox360, but Wii U games looked same but had console had higher price, that was problem, price. Well people didn't had Nintendo HD games on PS3/Xbox 360 so not exactly same experience, but they already had HD consoles for $100 less, again that was problem.
No, 3rd start to abandon Wii U after terrible Wii U sales in first year, Wii U initially had solid 3rd party support and that is a fact, I don't denying anything.
We already know that NX will have x86 or ARM arhitecuture. And yes industry needs Nintendo because there's nobody like Nintendo out there and they still one of the best games on market, pure quality and high polished.
Wii U had high price because of gamepad. PS4/Xbox One are identical consoles with similar experience, only difference is power and few exclusives, so its logical when you have two similar consoles you will choose better solution. Wii U is much different console in any way, similar like Wii was different than PS3/Xbox 360, saying that, nothing would change even if Wii U was stronger than PS4 because Wii U had much bigger problems than power.
Well I know what Nintendo all said about new platform and what we can expect, also all they announcments and talkes are saying that they will not repeat Wii U games. Problem with 3DS was that had bad launch and Nintendo invest huge effort to save it, that certainly affect on Wii U, they realised they can't no more support two completely different platforms in same time and that why they unifying platforms. Well with Nintendo you are 100% certain you will have at least full Nintendo support at least for 3-4 years, Sony abandons Vita after 2 years.
"It would be humiliating to release a console 3 years after PS4 and still make it inferior - after all", this sounds very funy beacuse we all know for Wii. Nintendo does not planning to compete with power, they want new and different things than those that are on market, with NX they probably want something new and different like Wii was, and thats good, we dont need to 3 identical consoles on market.
