Craig Harris. If you hear the name you probably recall him from his work at IGN, well he is now working over at SEGA on Aliens: Colonial Marines. He just happened to be on the podcast The Mush Room Podcast (aka not the best podcast ever aka The Swingin’ Report Show) and had a lot to say about the Wii U. One thing he did confirm is that the game wouldn’t be coming out on Wii U if the Wii U was inferior to current gen systems.
“Nintendo… has to release hardware that’s of the expectations of the gamer today … I don’t think we would be bringing the game to a system that would be inferior to current gen. (HD) systems.” – Craig Harris
I guess there is quite a bit of rumors about the power of the Wii U. I’m on the side of those that think it will most likely be better hardware than current generation systems. The issue though, its not going to compete against the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3. It’s going to compete against the “Xbox 720” and the “Playstation 4”. I don’t think it will have the power to match those, but we will see.
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I agree with you. The WiiU will be a little more powerful than the current gen consoles, but not as powerful, maybe no where near even, as the next gen consoles. I don’t know how long Nintendo can keep up being barely in “next gen,” but at least they seem to be getting their online act together.
Considering they dominated console sales with “last-gen” hardware this time around, I doubt they’re feeling any pressure to try to make a bleeding edge system that’s going to compete with consoles that are going to release one or two years after the WiiU.
Next gen will not be nearly as power-driven as this generation was; the industry can not afford it. Next gen consoles will likely be more powerful than the Wii U but I don’t think it will be by as big a gap as some are speculating.