I find the whining in this thread hilarious. This is from the same crowd that defend Nintendos weak systems over and over because power doesn't matter, graphics don't matter, framerates don't matter when tons of 3DS games run in the sub 20fps. Now it is a travesty because the PS4P cant do 4k 60FPS (for AAA games anyway).
Lol. Well this is a forum to discuss console related stuff to death, right? So that's what's going on.
Nintendo haven't been in the hardware arms race for years, and yeah, overall that's not what matters. I wrote that much in the first post I made in this thread. What I find is, when I'm playing the Wii U I find the graphics good enough to facilitate the fun of the game, which is the point, rather than being the driving focus. I can't do that so much with the PS4 because of the few games I like on it, like
The Witcher 3, would benefit more from extra processing power. Yeah sure I could PC Master Race it but that doesn't interest me, so as the types of games and target market for the PS4 is different I judge it differently from the Wii U. Which incidentally has no problems running quite a few games at a rock solid 1080p60; less complex graphically but more immersive.
But the point is, I think what I'm trying to do here, and several others from what I can tell, is work out exactly what Sony were going for with the PS4P, since it over promises and under delivers. Now with the original PS4 being the most powerful console of the three when it released obviously Sony care(d) about staying ahead of the competition, so when they come to release a souped up version of the same it's not unfair to judge them on that basis. I see it as they've over promised and under delivered again, which they are wont to do, and that they've just released this to facilitate PSVR, so it's targeted mostly at a subset of gamers who want that.
I eagerly await for the record to get flipped over when the NX comes out with its cell phone GPU and sub HD display. The hilarity will be priceless once again.
Hey, at least it'll be more interesting than just an incremental increase in power. I think the 900p display mentioned in the draft specs for the NX are referring to the companion handheld that bundles with it, which assuming a 5-7 inch screen is sufficient, and of course the main base console will run 1080p since the Wii U already does because although Nintendo don't go forwards in terms of hardware power as much as the other two (the Wii is more powerful than the GameCube, for example, but not by much) they certainly don't go backwards. And it'll also hopefully have poor cryptography as compared to the Sony offerings so if it has a vWiiU like the Wii U currently has a vWii we can theoretically back port all the home-brew from the Wii U, Wii and GameCube and have four consoles for the price of one, more if you count the ability to support Virtual Console titles, maybe including 3DS support in the same way the Wii U supports the original DS. Potentially a device able to play games across multiple Nintendo generations, who knows? More fun to think about than "oh look, it's the same as I already have just slightly more powerful". Remember that every Sony PlayStation device can play PS1 games except the PS4, so how's that for backward compatibility? Lol.
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