FIFA and Madden arent family friendly games. They are hardcore. The sims im pretty sure would sell well on a nintendo platform.

There is no defense force here. The guy is lying and we all know it. 100% sure the 360 is not more powerful than the Wii U. This is just a lazy bum trying to shift blame from himself and his company incompetence to adapt their engine to a different architecture. There is no knowledge here. Do you even work? Dont you know how these things go? They will shift the blame to someone else so they dont have to take the heat or have extra work. Guys like this are everywhere.

If you want to side with him go ahead. Its your choice.

I think Nintendo's out of touch Japanese leadership deserves some blame here too, even Iwata has said they haven't done a good enough job explaining the Wii U hardware to many third parties.

They create these extremely proprietary pieces of hardware with odd design priorities (power consumption over raw processing power for example) then it seems like they just dump the dev kit in the hands of a developer, provide a moderate documentation, and then just leave third parties to their own devices.

I don't think Nintendo is doing an adequate job of explaining the hardware to third parties, ensuring that third parties are getting the most out of the hardware specific features, or even really trying all that hard to get developers to be enthusiastic about the platform or understand the product vision.

It's more just "we're Nintendo, you should be happy we're not treating you like it's 1996, here's our dev kit, make some games for it please, k gotta go, bye". It just seems to me like developers are largely left to their own devices once Nintendo drops off their kits and are given minimal direction or understanding of the hardware.

Well, a lot of people still put some weight behind it and claim that it's possibly true (and this is all coming from an unconfirmed source). Talks raising the clock speeds while not being knowledgable about how the hardware works. Yet, when someone in the industry says negative things about a said console (of choice) its instantly bullshit because of bias of said company.

The issue I have is with people who claim they know more about the consoles and software development, than the actual people working on it.

To your last sentence.. that might be his personal experience with the console. Sports games might have to rely more on CPU side of things for the AI, physics and animation.. so who's to say that there isn't any truth in what he has to say.

I think what's amazing is that they can't be bothered to press the home button and open the web browser then just look at youtube videos. Hopefully those people won't ever get their hands on Demon's Souls/Dark Souls or Monster Hunter type games, ever.

or maybe they just don't give a shit about what the western market thinks since they are making money either way no matter how niche they are, I personally want to see what will happen with them and the push for Indie games on the Wii U.

Well lets hope "they give a shit" in their pursuit of those smaller devs then, because attitude and company effort does matter. Nintendo often doesn't seem to want to do anything that requires effort as a company. Marketing? Can't be bothered. Selling the system to developers or getting them to really utilize it well? Nope. Lobbying for exclusives? We'll meet you half-way, but no closer third parties, etc. etc. etc.

Not giving a shit about the Western market, I wonder also if that might have anything to do with the fact that both the 3DS (yes I said 3DS) and Wii U are performing poorly in these markets. Gee, wouldn't that be a surprise, treat a market like crap or at the minimum be horribly out of touch and consumers go elsewhere. Shocking.

I think it is obvious they made a lot of design choices on the Wii U based on the Japanese market ... but that market doesn't want consoles period, so it's not like even Japanese consumers are embracing the console.

Lol :D

So when i ask for technical details in this tweet - investigating that technical angle -, you call me childish and a *character assassin* for asking about the technical angle?

Wow. That's so not hypocritical.

That's what I'm interested in finding out since that's another route of gamble they are taking, the thing about Nintendo is that they are always doing things really differently, so I'm constantly watching them to see the results. In a really strange fucked up way, they are the true innovators of the video game industry to this day, be it a good innovation or bad lol.

They did totally fuck up the marketing for Wii U though, whoever did that shit needs to get replaced ASAP as most people don't even know the Wii U is a new console.

I can't agree with you saying they are not helping 3rd parties to utilize their console well though as I've seen some pretty amazing shit from 3rd parties, the problem eventually became budget issues, and I can fully understand devs not wanting to release games for the system because they can't compete with Nintendo's games which is why they want Nintendo to go 3rd party since they want a bigger piece of the pie. It's all just money talk and has nothing to do with video gaming or gaming innovation from the 3rd party perspective. It's actually really sad how big game devs are mostly unable to take risks anymore.

I have no problem with Nintendo doing their own thing though, I always have other platforms for the other things anyways hehe.... I personally love the Japanese market and for as long as they can bring those content over, I'll be all over it. I also love the western market of course. It's quiet sad that we have to own multiple systems to get the best of both worlds these days, but the days of PS2 is long gone at this point, we have to make do with what we've got.

Well this was no surprise.......though why mods are banning people for agreeing with AN EXPERT is beyond me. This website is losing control.

No it isn't. Power is down to numbers which can be easily compared. If a hardware engineer - a trained professional says so, he is going to be right.

Eh?

No, lots to see here. Someone who works with the gear everyday just flipped out on it. That is very important.