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On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 08:47:35 +0100, Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote:

>Am 16.11.15 um 21:57 schrieb Rin Stowleigh:
>
>> Maybe Nintendo wanted to frighten away the developers who would just
>> end up doing a lackluster port of some Metal Gear Solid game or
>> whatever.  Who needs yet another platform to play games like that?
>> What's great about Nintendo games is (as you said) the guarantee if it
>> has their name on it, it's not going to be shovelware.  If I were a
>> third-party developer who didn't have a similar commitment to quality,
>> I would run like hell too (and blame it on weak hardware if that's
>> convenient).. lol
>>
>My personal guess is, they want to carry the Dolphin platform along as 
>long as possible for many reasons (backwards compatibility, tooling they 
>have written for that platform). The platform has existed since the 
>gamecube. Back then it was a real powerhouse.
>
>Whatever there intention was, it backfired. The Wii basically was 
>drowned in Shovelware and nobody could find the good titles anymore, 
>although they existed, because the hardware was to weak to port the AAA 
>games of that time, and the installbase was huge with mostly casual 
>gamers (although Okami, my all time Wii favorite was a hardcore PS2 
>port, but forget generally about XBOX360/PS3 ports on that platform).
>
>
>The Wii-U basically has only a smaller install base of hardcore Nintendo 
>fans hence the shovelware producers stay away from it like a plaque and 
>pester the more successful IOS/Android/Nintendo 3ds devices.
>But the problem is that the hardware is not good enough to run the most 
>recent bunch of AAA titles no matter what and hence the Wii-U is 
>delegated to its own rather unsuccessful corner of the console universe.
>As much as I hate some those games, but if a console does not run COD, 
>GTA, Asassins Creed etc... it is bound to fail in the mass market, period.
>
>
>Either way I think Nintendo got the message, their upcoming NX console 
>is supposed to be way more powerful. The Wii-U unfortunately won´t make 
>a full 7 years cycle for better or worse.

I don't really follow Nintendo as a company.  The last system from
them I had prior to the Wii-U was an N64 (which was great in its day).

The Wii-U in its current form is a great little box as a
retro-Nintendo title player (although I do wish it would double as a
true portable), and meets my current need.  As far as the next one,
I'm not sure... if I want games that require powerful hardware, I have
my PC for that.  I guess if games for the NX are able to really do
something with that power that other consoles aren't doing I might be
interested, but I imagine it will simply open the doors to being a
landing zone for yet another Call of Duty port or whatever, and that
may actually turn out to work against them.  

If the next Nintendo console turns out to be just like an XBox or
Playstation (basically an underpowered Intel based PC), then they will
be judged by whether the Playstation gets 5 frames per second more or
less in a given game by the same title.  If it turns out to be based
on some other proprietary architecture, they will run into some of the
same problems the PS3 ran into.