Seece said:
NJ5 said:
Machina said:
Mr Khan said:
Machina said:
Reminds me of the sort of 'support' the Wii got in the early days. It's not the flood of third party support that had been rumoured; it feels weak, limited and very non-commital.
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Power enough to produce 3rd party parity will lead to a flood of support all its own. Perhaps a poorly optimized flood, but a flood all the same. All the random junk that hits all consoles will hit there too, and that's the important takeaway
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Parity will last for about a year (during which time WiiU looks to be getting a mix of old ports, day-and-date multiplats and some exclusives, which sounds like early years Wii to me), but then what happens when PS4/720 come around?
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There's no reason to believe the PS4/720 will be much more powerful than Wii U, so ports will still be easily done. Look at PC games which can easily run on very weak graphics cards and very strong ones, as long as they have the same programming model...
Unless you believe that MS/Sony will go wild and make another expensive system...
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And there is no reason to think 720/PS4 won't be.
If WiiU is just on par with PS360 now, and possibly better when it launches, 720/PS4 will launch in 2013 or later, that's a 7/8 year gap ... it's not just going to be a small upgrade like so many Nitnendo fans are hoping ... it's gonna raise the bar, again.
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But I don't really see how Sony and MS's console could be that much more powerful, at least noticably enough to warrant the new purchase. Eventually you reach a certain point where you can't improve graphic quality anymore to the extent that you can leverage that as a good enough improvement to invest in the new console. That is one of the key reasons Nintendo created the Wii in the first place, because they understood this. And that is why all three companies are going nutty with their other gimmicks like Kinect, Move, giant screens on controllers, etc, because horsepower alone is no longer a relevant reason to invest in a new console.
Wii U will most likely be more powerful than the PS3, in which case it should be powerful enough to allow for cross-porting on Wii U and the new Sony and MS consoles.
