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WiiU shouldve come out in

2006 116 35.69%
 
2012 149 45.85%
 
show me the goddamn results 60 18.46%
 
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Zappykins on 15 June 2012

I think an HD Wii should have come out in 2009 or 2010 - when they bought out Wii Motion Plus. M+ is an improvement over the regular Wii controllers. It would have been a good time to 'refresh' the hardware a bit so it can perform in HD (and it would be nice if it could upscale Wii games - someting WiiU doesn't do.)

If it was just the WiiU today without the game pad, so the money could go into the system. They could added the 'pro' controller and could have stayed in completion with the twins and kept expanding.

But I found once I got an HD system for my HD TV I didn't like all the 'jaggys' and such. Even without the touch screen, being just HD (also for Netflix, Hulu+ etc.) I think would have extended their dominance.

Anyway, I like them and wish them well - it was hard for another system to come into my life.



 

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dark_gh0st_b0y on 15 June 2012

if the release date is closer than 2 years, then they are the same gen, and since WiiU and its Nintendo games will drain sales of Ps4, like Wii did took sales from Ps3, WiiU is same gen as Ps4, unless they release it too late



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Jumpin on 15 June 2012
BasilZero said:
Jumpin said:
Generation is dependent on when it arrived.

I.E. Despite Arnold Schwarzenegger being much more powerful than David Bowie, they're still of the same generation.

Despite Katherine Schwarzenegger and Patrick Shriver being much less powerful than Arnold Schwarzenegger, they are still his children, and therefore the next generation.


You just compared genetic/bio generation to a generation of technology....it doesnt work like that.


Yes it does. The word generation in technology is used as an analogy to bio generation.



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richardhutnik on 15 June 2012
Jumpin said:
BasilZero said:
Jumpin said:
Generation is dependent on when it arrived.

I.E. Despite Arnold Schwarzenegger being much more powerful than David Bowie, they're still of the same generation.

Despite Katherine Schwarzenegger and Patrick Shriver being much less powerful than Arnold Schwarzenegger, they are still his children, and therefore the next generation.


You just compared genetic/bio generation to a generation of technology....it doesnt work like that.


Yes it does. The word generation in technology is used as an analogy to bio generation.

Less powerful than Arnold?  Sounds like you are talking about my....
DEgeneration!



Alby_da_Wolf on 15 June 2012

Will it use relays, valves or transistors? O-)



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Darc Requiem on 15 June 2012
Mr Khan said:
Pre-emptive damage control for when they get their asses kicked by Wii U?

The goal-posts are in motion already!

Pretty much my thoughts on the situation.



saxophonehero on 15 June 2012

Honestly i feel as if its fair to say that the Wii U is in a generation of its own, because its so hard to compare something like the wii products towards the hd consoles. As someone mentioned earlier it would seem that the perfect time to release Wii U as it is now around 2009-2010. I just fear that by the time the other consoles come out the Wii U will be outdated and become nowhere near as succesful as the Wii. Well hopefully i'm wrong about the prediction.