Wyrdness said:
It's in the post itself, the differences in approach between the Wii U and its predecessor, he earlier said it's underpowered because it followed the same path as Wii however I pointed out Wii U was as powerful as Nintendo could make it in the power game due to the costs of going that route. This is backed by a link I posted earlier that showed the cost inflicted on MS (2.9bn) and Sony (4.9) by their platforms in this approach and they had services like Live and PSN making money for them as well as have a difference licensing structure to Nintendo where third parties don't pay as much plus their (MS/Sony) costs are offset by other ventures in the company so that loss doesn't show the full scale of the costs it would inflict on Nintendo as he earlier said they had 10bn in the bank to do so. The power talk is highlighting the difference in approach he argues that they went underpowered to copy Wii when they were actually were pushing for power they just got outmatched in a game they should have never played and do what they do best their own thing, Wii was blue ocean focused that audience doesn't care about power so it didn't have a jump in power but a push in a concept to focus on immersion and fun, Wii U tried to play the power game but because Nintendo don't have the size or ventures nor did they have an equivalent service of the other platforms they couldn't come close to the jump their competitors were planning even if you went back in time to 2010 when they started developing Wii U to tell them of the specs their competitors would put out they wouldn't be able to match it due to their business model not being geared to combat companies of that size who can go all in when in a power game. I don't see where you got the whole notion that only power is important from. |
I thought it was already general knowledge that the gamepad held back any more power. It wasn't like Nintendo was out of money like you said because they have billions in the bank (I believe they drained it under 10 at that point). Nintendo doesn't usually sell consoles at a loss and they don't want to sell a bloated system for over 400. So because they went the gamepad route which added cost to the system they could only make it marginally more powerful then the previous systems the competition had. They just had bad marketing at the time and people are apparently stupid because even after putting out the brochure that it was a new system they still thought it was an addon. It would have been more clear maybe if they called it the Super Wii perhaps. Anyways their failure with Wii U lead to some changes and now you have the Switch.
