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skywake

Olliemar28 wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, the mere fact that people are debating this brings light to the Wii U's glaring limitations.

It needed light to be brought? I thought it was pretty obvious from the start.

If anything it being debated highlights the need for some people to justify their console purchases. Nothing more.

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skywake wrote:

Olliemar28 wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, the mere fact that people are debating this brings light to the Wii U's glaring limitations.

It needed light to be brought? I thought it was pretty obvious from the start.

If anything it being debated highlights the need for some people to justify their console purchases. Nothing more.

I'm going to give my honest opinion of why I think it's huge debate as to whether the Wii U is next generation or not. Many, many, MANY gamers left Nintendo after the GameCube. I did. They felt the Wii was a slap in the face. Motion controls were gimmicky, and most of the games were for kids. So most of us left for the 360 and PS3, while (in our eyes) only little kids and moms bought the Wii. That idea hasn't left the mind of most gamers, even older and more mature players. The Wii U, to the majority of the gaming population, is just another Wii from Nintendo, and therefore it is going to be attacked ruthlessly. The people doing the attacking haven't actually played the system and probably never will - they are judging based off of the last 7ish years.

In short, citing the technical specs as a debate point is just a convenience to an end - it's not the real reason people don't think the Wii U is next gen. The real reason is the bad blood Nintendo brewed in the last generation and resulting hatred toward anything made by the company now.

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skywake

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That's demonstrably false. The Gamecube only sold ~30mill so the "gamers" who "left" Nintendo did so before it. If people left Nintendo it was with the N64 not the Wii, the Wii expanded their market dramatically and was found under the TVs of plenty of "core" gamers. The "kiddie" image has been there since the days when "Genesis did what Nintendon't" and was magnified when Sony came to the scene and made a gaming console a more mainstream audience were happy to sit underneath their TVs. So I don't buy that argument.

I stand by what I said and the points which you didn't counter. This "debate" isn't about specs and it isn't even about content or image. It's about people who are invested into a particular platform trying to find a way to justify their purchases. Nothing more.

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shingi_70

@rallydefault

The Wii u behind on a technical level is a big reason why people don't see it being next gen. People expected Nintendo to learn from the Wii and it appeared they did upon the first reveal. Then we learned how powerful the Wii U was in relation to current Gen and how much better the other consoles (ONE/PS4) would be in power and feature set.

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@skywake

I wasn't trying to "counter" anything you said. Why is everyone on here looking for an argument? My statement was that GAMERS left Nintendo when the Wii came out. Yes, the Wii sold more, but they were selling to moms, dads, grandparents, doctor's offices, etc. - a market they hadn't tapped before. So yes, they sold more by reaching out to a wider audience, but they sold fewer to gamers who didn't want any part of motion controls. Many, MANY gamers left Nintendo when the Wii came out. You can't argue that. You know it's true. You probably have friends who did exactly that. Take that circle of friends and broaden it out to the country and the world. That's what happened with the Wii - more people, ultimately, but less favor among gamers.

@Sony_70

I agree with you, but my opinion is that Nintendo would be facing the same criticisms of Wii U even if the specs were on-par with Xbone and PS4, gamers would just find something else to criticize it for: the "gimmick" of the gamepad, the absence of engines like Frostbite (due to low hardware sales), etc. The ill will amongst a certain segment of the population just wants nothing to with Nintendo anymore. Get a pulse read on some of the bigger web sites out there and you'll see it time and time again: people are just fed up with Nintendo and view them as a kiddy company. (None of this is my opinion lol)

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shingi_70

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I don't think the Wii U would have been ignored if they were on par and had X86 like the One/PS4 did.

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skywake

@rallydefault
Yeah, that's bull. Do you remember what Nintendo's reputation was before the Wii and DS took off? I was in a really heavy tech enthusiast group of nerdy friends at the time and I probably only ~10% even had a Gamecube. At the time I personally wasn't interested in Nintendo's content at all and I only changed my tune when I saw New Super Mario Bros on DS. Within six months of the Wii launching pretty much everyone had a Wii.

It's very easy to glance over a comment section on an article about "hardcore games" now after the Wii hype has well and truly faded and say it turned people off. But it's bull, that's not what happened at all. Go back to the internet hype around 2006 and you'll find people saying "Wii60". Find a random group of gamers in 2007 and between Portal references and a love affair with Bioshock they would mention the Smash Bros blog, Super Mario Galaxy and Pokemon.

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@skywake

No need to get nasty, man. I didn't write any "bull," I wrote my own opinion on that matter that I strongly believe applies to more than a few other people out there. Like it or not, we'll just have to agree to disagree. Or you can disagree to disagree, I really don't care. Your friends may have all bought the Wii, but literally not a single person in my family bought one, nor did my friends. It's still the topic of ridicule amongst most of my friend, actually.

So there you have it, two totally opposite experiences. Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in between, as it usually does.

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SCRAPPER392

Sony_70 wrote:

@rallydefault

I don't think the Wii U would have been ignored if they were on par and had X86 like the One/PS4 did.

N64 and GameCube were ignored quite alot in comparison to weaker consoles at the time.
When it was GameCube vs. Xbox vs. PS2, I was literally thinking, 'Why are people buying PS2 when it's worse than GCN?'
Same applies here. People think Wii U is under powered in comparison to PS4/Xbox One, so why bother?

The biggest difference between Nintendo now, and Nintendo then, is memory format limitations. N64 undoubtedly struggled mainly due to not using discs, or not using a big enough disc.
Alot of the way people perceive these comsoles has alot to do with timing, and will ask questions.
Does it look, sound, play, and have more than what we've already had?
In this case, were looking at Xbox 360 and PS3 in the past, and PS4 and Xbox One in the future.
Nintendo now has high capacity discs, HDD support, a game/chat camera, motion control better than any console before, a standard touchscreen, NFC, multiple controller input, and better online.
In terms of what the Wii U can do, it meets or exceeds expectations in many areas in comparison to last generation.
The only real difference really only would be graphics, and we don't even truly know how a game would look if it was ported from another 8th gen console.
The only way we will ever know what Wii U can do in comparison to Xbox One and PS4, is if someone releases a multiplatform game on all 3 that we can compare between the 3.
Many early multiplatform games are being released on every console, except Wii U. Destiny, GTA V will be on both of the PS and Xbox consoles spanning 2 generations. If those games show up, it will settle any differences between all of them once and for all.

My guess is that Wii U is just as much better than Xbox 360 graphically as it is worse to Xbox One. It's probably a halfstep in that regard, but there's plenty of features Wii U has that none of the others will have standard.

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MAB

Bad blood brewed?
Extremist hatred over a box of bits?
Consoles slap people in the face now ?

Sounds like some people need to pay a visit to their local looney bins

MAB

skywake

@rallydefault
I didn't say everyone got a Wii I just said that of the people I knew nobody who owned a Gamecube skipped the Wii. The Gamecube wasn't very popular at all even amongst tech enthusiasts and the Wii was. Like it or not it's one of the best selling consoles ever so the evidence is on my side on this one. If you take offense at me calling what you said bull then take offense... but it's complete bull.

and I believe you are reading my posts in the incorrect tone because nothing I said was mean spirited. A pretty bold accusation coming from a person who's calling Nintendo's content childish on a Nintendo forum.

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SCRAPPER392

This is probably gonna sound stupid, but I thought Wii would eventually be able to run games that looked like Gears of War, with the remote pointer scheme we all knew was possible. That was right when Wii came out, though, and nobody reall knew what to expect.
Looks like that's gonna happen this generation instead, plus we have the GamePad and better, more modern tech on top of that now.

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shingi_70

SCAR392 wrote:

Sony_70 wrote:

@rallydefault

I don't think the Wii U would have been ignored if they were on par and had X86 like the One/PS4 did.

N64 and GameCube were ignored quite alot in comparison to weaker consoles at the time.
When it was GameCube vs. Xbox vs. PS2, I was literally thinking, 'Why are people buying PS2 when it's worse than GCN?'
Same applies here. People think Wii U is under powered in comparison to PS4/Xbox One, so why bother?

The biggest difference between Nintendo now, and Nintendo then, is memory format limitations. N64 undoubtedly struggled mainly due to not using discs, or not using a big enough disc.
Alot of the way people perceive these comsoles has alot to do with timing, and will ask questions.
Does it look, sound, play, and have more than what we've already had?
In this case, were looking at Xbox 360 and PS3 in the past, and PS4 and Xbox One in the future.
Nintendo now has high capacity discs, HDD support, a game/chat camera, motion control better than any console before, a standard touchscreen, NFC, multiple controller input, and better online.
In terms of what the Wii U can do, it meets or exceeds expectations in many areas in comparison to last generation.
The only real difference really only would be graphics, and we don't even truly know how a game would look if it was ported from another 8th gen console.
The only way we will ever know what Wii U can do in comparison to Xbox One and PS4, is if someone releases a multiplatform game on all 3 that we can compare between the 3.
Many early multiplatform games are being released on every console, except Wii U. Destiny, GTA V will be on both of the PS and Xbox consoles spanning 2 generations. If those games show up, it will settle any differences between all of them once and for all.

My guess is that Wii U is just as much better than Xbox 360 graphically as it is worse to Xbox One. It's probably a halfstep in that regard, but there's plenty of features Wii U has that none of the others will have standard.

N64 and Gamecube also goofed up by having low storage capacity's

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SCRAPPER392

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That was mentioned in the wall of text.

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skywake

SCAR392 wrote:

This is probably gonna sound stupid, but I thought Wii would eventually be able to run games that looked like Gears of War, with the remote pointer scheme we all knew was possible.

It does sound stupid because it is. Hopefully you don't take offense to my bluntness unlike others in this thread

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SCRAPPER392

skywake wrote:

SCAR392 wrote:

This is probably gonna sound stupid, but I thought Wii would eventually be able to run games that looked like Gears of War, with the remote pointer scheme we all knew was possible.

It does sound stupid because it is. Hopefully you don't take offense to my bluntness unlike others in this thread

Nah, it's ok. I just saw games like Gears of War, and thought of the same game with Wii remote controls.
There was even a video on YouTube at the time, claiming that they got Gears of War running on Wii, with the controls remapped to the Wii remote. It was obviously false, and I understood Gears of War would never run on Wii.
I knew it was false after about 2 years into the Wii's lifetime, because no games came close graphically on Wii to Xbox 360.
I was 14 at the time.
Also, Dead Rising on Wii blatantly showed that Xbox 360 could do more visually and such.

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AlexSays

skywake wrote:

SCAR392 wrote:

This is probably gonna sound stupid, but I thought Wii would eventually be able to run games that looked like Gears of War, with the remote pointer scheme we all knew was possible.

It does sound stupid because it is. Hopefully you don't take offense to my bluntness unlike others in this thread

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KAHN

Next Gen is about how technology has improved since the last generation. imho, WiiU is more powerful than PS3/360, but nowhere near powerful enough to be considered next-gen like the PS4/One.

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MAB

I liked DR on the Wii better because of pointer controls and the zomfi's had better AI

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