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Topic: What If Microsoft or Sony Made The Wii U?

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JoeyTS

This thought has been bugging me lately, if Microsoft or Sony made this system what do you think might happen to the Wii U?

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DefHalan

They would have approached the GamePad as a optional input device and given up on it with only off-screen play possibly being supported... nothing unique

People keep saying the Xbox One doesn't have Backwards Compatibility.
I don't think they know what Backwards Compatibility means...

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JoeyTS

DefHalan wrote:

They would have approached the GamePad as a optional input device and given up on it with only off-screen play possibly being supported... nothing unique

That is a good observation, but I wonder the Wii U will sell better cuz completely different companies, and hardcore games

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SkywardLink98

They would've put a lot more power into it and done a better job advertising it. Seriously, for every one Wii U ad I see, I'll see 10 PS4 ads.

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I don't see why Nintendo couldn't be successful with powerful hardware, everybody points to the Gamecube and says it dosen't pay dividends, well, the Nintendo 64, SNES, and NES were all moderately powerful for their times.

This whole Nintendo dosen't care about the graphical bar is a rather new trend from the mid 2000's and the start of the Wii era.

If Nintendo had made something akin to the PS4 in specs and general design, I would be delighted.

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Chrono_Cross

It would have stronger hardware and third party support to start with.

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It wouldn't be failing or appealing to the child crowd.

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Chrono_Cross wrote:

It would have stronger hardware and third party support to start with.

This but first party would be a tad weaker in volume.

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iKhan

It would most likely be as powerful as the XB1, but cost $500. Online would be much better, and we wouldn't see the lagging online features.

At the same time, Gamepad support would be even worse than it is now. SonySoft fail to understand the reason you include gaming peripherals in consoles.

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sub12 wrote:

I don't see why Nintendo couldn't be successful with powerful hardware, everybody points to the Gamecube and says it dosen't pay dividends, well, the Nintendo 64, SNES, and NES were all moderately powerful for their times.

This whole Nintendo dosen't care about the graphical bar is a rather new trend from the mid 2000's and the start of the Wii era.

If Nintendo had made something akin to the PS4 in specs and general design, I would be delighted.

It's not that they couldn't. It's that they shouldn't. Sony is already making the more powerful, "gimmick"-less console. We really don't need another company to make the same thing. I'd much rather have a variety.

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BinaryFragger wrote:

sub12 wrote:

I don't see why Nintendo couldn't be successful with powerful hardware, everybody points to the Gamecube and says it dosen't pay dividends, well, the Nintendo 64, SNES, and NES were all moderately powerful for their times.
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The GameCube was powerful but was lacking in other areas. It had weak online capabilities and discs that only held 1.5GB of data (compared to 4.7GB DVDs the competition was using).

Yeah, I agree that the Gamecube was lacking in some technical terms, as was the 64, and hence why the SNES is that one system where Nintendo followed industry standards, and we got a boat load of great first and third party titles at the same time....

But, people like to justify Nintendo's recent lack of concern for graphical prowlness by saying, "hey, look at the Gamecube, it was more powerful than the PS2 yet sold substantially less".........somehow trying to justify that underpowered systems and Nintendo are a natural fit.......which is BS, the Pilotwings and Wave Race franchises were more or less solely created to showcase what beefy Nintendo systems could do from a graphical standpoint at launch.

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DefHalan

@sub12
The SNES was weaker than the Genesis. The GameBoy/GBC were weaker than the GameGear.

People keep saying the Xbox One doesn't have Backwards Compatibility.
I don't think they know what Backwards Compatibility means...

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DefHalan wrote:

@sub12
The SNES was weaker than the Genesis. The GameBoy/GBC were weaker than the GameGear.

The Genesis had a faster processor, however, in every other way the SNES was superior graphically, although both systems had a rough parity, it wasn't really until 1994 and 1995 that the Genesis began to look dated in comparison to the SNES.

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micronean

Imagamerboi wrote:

This thought has been bugging me lately, if Microsoft or Sony made this system what do you think might happen to the Wii U?

It would have looked more aggressive, stuffed with TV viewing crap, and been considered a "game changer" (and sold by the boatload). But, alas, being Nintendo, the Wii U is shunned by the gaming masses.

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Caryslan

DefHalan wrote:

@sub12
The SNES was weaker than the Genesis. The GameBoy/GBC were weaker than the GameGear.

No, the SNES was more powerful than the Genesis. The SNES had more colors, better sound, things like Mode 7 that the Genesis was incapable of doing, and was overall a more powerful system. About the only real advantage the Genesis had was a faster processor, although that mattered less as developers got used to the SNES' hardware.

I am a huge Genesis fan, but even I'll admit the SNES was the more powerful system. On its own, the Genesis could not do some of the things the SNES could natively, and it took add-ons like the Sega CD and 32X for the Genesis to even match the SNES' specs.

Although, with that said, the SNES still was not the most powerful system of that generation. That honor goes to the Neo-Geo.

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sub12

SNES couldn't blast process though.

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JoeyTS

Interesting that a lot of people are caring more about Microsoft and sony then nintendo

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MrV4ltor

They actually did. Microsoft's was called "Xbox 360", looked different and came out way before the Wii U. ;D

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There would potentially be a reason for anyone to justify owning all 3 consoles. Unless Nintendo becomes Xbox One in this alternate reality, which sounds like a bizarro world where good becomes evil.

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