DevilRising said:
1. This rhetoric and this argument are both old AND tired.
2. Gamecube was actually significantly more powerful than PS2 hardware in certain ways. It's main drawback was smaller disc size.
3. Raw hardware power means nothing. The Dreamcast was a very powerful console for it's time, and it bombed. The Sega Master System was technically more powerful than the NES, yet a lot of people in NA didn't even know the console existed. PS1 and PS2 were less powerful than N64 and GC, yet they sold far better.
4. Why should Nintendo fans "call Nintendo out" on lower hardware specs? If they give us good games, then who gives a shit? Wii U only failed because Nintendo did not, apparently, fully think things through when they entered into HD. Their marketing of the console was shit right out of the gate and never really recovered, and while it had many good games, it also never (within it's main lifespan when it would have mattered) had what I'd argue was a truly GREAT game, like the upcoming Zelda, that's now getting ported to NX. Third party publishers didn't leave Wii U because of it's power. In fact, as people so conveniently forget, many publishers were on board at launch. On paper, Wii U's launch lineup was great, and gamers were initially very excited that it was getting (mostly contemporary) ports of games like Assassin's Creed, Darksiders, Batman, Mass Effect, etc. And it was originally supposed to have third party exclusives like Rayman Legends. It wasn't until sales dried up in a hurry after the new year in 2013, that they eventually migrated away from it. Companies like Ubisoft and Activision stuck it out for a couple of years, but in the interim, Nintendo had mismanaged their own development cycles, delaying Wii U software, and developing other games for 3DS that arguably should have been Wii U games. There are many reasons Wii U failed, but not one of them was console power. Third parties were just fine with Wii U's power, they left because the system, and their games, weren't selling very well.
5. I can't speak for all Nintendo fans, but most of the ones I know, myself included, couldn't give a single hot shit whether Nintendo's next system is super powerful or not. So long as it's got GAMES, that's what matters. And just because they recently gave their typical "we care about games over horsepower" type of line, which honestly is a good philosophy, doesn't mean NX will be "weak" hardware. |
Even in recent years, the 3DS is less powerful than the Vita, but it offers great games.
