Wii U Power Unlikely to Amaze, Says Miyamoto

[dmase]

Cough cough called it.

 

[jamesworkshop]

not a surprise it was clearly intended as a stop gap, I think it's the new Xbox, just something to win over the publishers until the replacment

 

[Waaghpowa]

I'll have to agree, better to have a balance between power and price tag then have another incident of "599 US dollars"

Someone isn't a PC gamer.

We're talking about a console, lower cost for roughly the same games should be the goal. If you want to go and spend 600+ on a console, you might as well build a PC.

 

[lacktheknack]

After all the cost-cutting they are doing, I'm going to be pissed if this thing sells for more than $250.

Considering how the Wii still sells for $149, DREAM ON. Technology is really expensive, no getting around it.

Anyways, I won't be getting this. I'm too much of a specs enthusiast. :/

 

[Amondren]

I'll have to agree, better to have a balance between power and price tag then have another incident of "599 US dollars"

I second that motion. I hope they show more games that are like worthwhile and ones that are actually being played on the WiiU because if it doesn't have anything going for it then theirs just no point in it being cheap to begin with.

 

[Jyggalag]

Anyone notice how Nintendo is trying to be like Sony and Microsoft with shinier games, and Sony and Microsoft is trying to be like Nintendo with the casual audience and motion censor gameplay? Maybe we all can get along. Or perhaps they're attempting to win over customers like the greedy CEOs they are.

 

[Jyggalag]

EDIT- Sorry, double post

 

[Wolfenbarg]

This has been Nintendo's strength for a while now. After basically feeding an entire generation to Sony after the Nintendo 64's decision to use cartridges, the really low price point of the Gamecube made them extremely competitive in a market where Sony was basically unstoppable. They managed it again with the Wii being significantly cheaper (provided it was adequately supplied) than the 360 or the PS3. This new launch is already going to have an issue of being very untimely, since core gamers who are happy with their 360 or PS3 are more likely to keep investing in those systems, especially since their respective companies are more than willing to maintain support for them. However, if they can manage to strike a good price point (300 is the sweet spot, though it looks unlikely right now), then this launch should do rather well. If they misjudge the market again though, this will be a disaster.

 

[hexFrank202]

If the PS4 became an even greater powerhouse of graphics, that'd just make it an even more overweight, complicated, glitch-ridden, slow, power-sucking beast of a console with an even MORE expensive, miserable development process that would *****-slap its variety and innovation of games into even GREATER obscurity. It'd be almost like a PC, just without any of the advantages.

Nintendo was smart to pull out of the graphics race when they did. Because it's about to lead straight down a mile-high cliff, with lava and spikes at the bottom. And Microsoft and Sony could very well fall right down into it.

 

[twm1709]

Miyamoto said that, as an entertainment company, Nintendo was very sensitive to pricing concerns, as consumers only had so much money to spend on entertainment products. He explained that cost was especially important with regard to parents buying things for their children, as there was a price threshold that they were reluctant to cross.

And yet the wiiu controller looks expensive for a children's toy.
It's too early to say but this has the potential to blow up in their faces if they don't get their priorities straight. Nintendo's "it's all about the controls" focus may not work so well if you can only use one of those per console.
I mean, Zelda and Mario in HD will only get you so far