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Thunderbird77 on 02 March 2016
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Pemalite said:
Thunderbird77 said:

I wonder how you managed to miss it when my post was so small. The graphical difference between x1/ps4 games and wii u isn't big and when we factor that wii u has a higher framerate as standard, it evens out the resolution (if nintendo opted to make wii u games run at 30 fps, they could up the resolution to 900p or keep 720p and increase the graphics to x1 levels).

Because it is only your opinion.
Take a look at any Wii U game, you will find that texturing, geometry, lighting, shading and general assets is a generational step back from the next gen twins.

Resolution and Framerate is not the sole determiner of image quality that you imply, resolution is the amount of pixels being rendered and displayed on screen, usually it impacts the clarity of an image and reduces the amount of jaggies. (Some form's of Anti-Aliasing will just render the game at a higher resolution then downscale it.)
Framerate is the amount of images displayed per second.
Neither two affects the lighting, shadowing, geometry, texturing, filtering etc' going on in a game.
You can have the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 render games at full 1080P, 60fps. It will look worst than an Xbox One at 480P 30fps.

Still waiting for you to show me a game which is able to provide Xbox One Levels of image quality, you kinda' need that to back your argument up, otherwise your absurd claims are simply without basis.

We also need to keep in mind that Nintendo historically (Since the gamecube days) hasn't been the leader in hardware or graphics either, The Gamecube lost to the Xbox, the Wii lost to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, the Wii U looses to the Xbox One and Playstation 4, the DS Lost to the PSP, 3DS looses to the Vita  and the NX is unlikely to change any of that, it's Nintendo's business strategy. And it has kept them in business, so we can expect more of the same going forward. (Even if I hope for them to be competitive with hardware, there is nothing that says that they will.)

Converesly... Rumors have suggested that the NX is likely to be less powerfull than the Xbox One, if the Wii U can display graphics at the Xbox One Level (Your words, not mine) then what would be the point in releasing the NX?

I would like for you to show some proof though of an in-game screenshot that shows Xbox One levels of graphics being rendered on the Wii U, otherwise I will assume you are not being serious.

Lying in my face doesn't help. Resolution and framerate are big factors, graphics are the other and there's no big difference between wii u's graphics and it's two competitors. They're certainly better but nothing huge.

Nearly every major Wii U exclusives prove my point.

Absolutely irrelevant that those hardwares weren't the strongest in their generations.

I will pretend I didn't read your NX vs x1 sentence. To make it short, there's no way wii u's successor is only less/ equally as/ a little more/ moderately more powerful than x1.