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That's great that you are happy with your Wii U, but this is about the next generation, not this generation which the Wii U is apart of.

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:lol: no

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Epic VP Mark Rein


:shrug:

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The WiiU is barely current gen. It's playing a lot of catch up to where MS and Sony were 7.5 and 6.5 years ago, respectively.

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He also said it can be scaled to run on all systems.

The Wii was far more underpowered than the 360 or PS3, yet I never heard anyone complain about it being last gen. People will bitch about what they want, I suppose.

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Sure we did. We just stopped bitching in 2008.

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True, if they had released the Wii U instead of the Wii, then I would have played my Wii a hell of a lot more than I have.

HD VC :drool:

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Right, if you scale it down enough you can run it on the Wii U, just like you could scale it down enough to run on the 360 or PS3.

I guess we will see in a couple years where exactly the consoles sit as far as performance and visuals.

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The original xbox a generation prior was capable of HD. So an SD system launching in 2005 was already a generation behind on day 1. No need to bitch, it was clear it was never going to be able to compete.

There's nothing wrong with the WiiU but it's just a hair more powerful than 360/PS3. There's nothing wrong with that, it's great to have Nintendo games in HD, but saying it will be on par with PS4 and Durango is simply incorrect. The PS3 & 360 are the WiiU's peers, it just arrived 8 years late.

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And the wii launched in 2007 (at the same time as the PS3), not 2005, which was already a year behind the 360 in 2006.

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I don't think anyone said it would be on par with PS4 and Durango, did they? It will be competing against them and as such is in their generation.

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"Generation" in console life cycles has always been measured in capabilities (see 8-bit vs 16-bit), not the actual years of popularity.

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I messed up the years earlier, but not the order. 360 in 2005 and PS3 & Wii in 2006.

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Even though I think the Wii U is subpar, I'd still say video game generation refers to the years if its existence opposed to power under the hood.

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Yeah sorry, was off a year on the Wii. Point still stands though. Tech-wise, it was dated on release day.

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I guess we will wait and see what the majority of the developers say about if the Wii U is current gen or next gen...

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It's current gen, and barely that even.

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You don't get it. Everyone could say that it's not next gen and that doesn't change the fact that it is.

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How can it be next-gen if it's here?

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The question is if it started a new one or tried to extend the existing one.

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Nintendo 8 bit is what made me a gamer for life, but let's be honest here, Microsoft and Sony are leading us in to the next generation.

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I wouldn't be drooling over a VC that still stretches 4:3 games, which is ridiculous.

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All the always-online rumors are based on the development consoles, which MS has tight control over. I'll be very surprised if the consumer console has the same restrictions.

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What, it is stretching 4:3 games? bah!

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Actually, you don't get it.

But we all know where you stand.