Oh, because an avalanche of shovelware and zero third-party support made the Wii so great.
I was talking about graphical power in the quoted text...
Then I think you'll be pretty satisfied. 400 (PS3 GPU) x .30 = 120. 520GFLOPS is easily attainable.
But... slightly more powerful than the Wii isn't even close to current generation, how would it keep up with the next?
Thing is, those things are closely connected. If you don't give developers enough resources, they won't spread their wings. If they can't do that, they'll release shovelware to make money and just get on with their lives.
Dreamcast is not a half-step over the PS1 - Dreamcast is comparable with the PS2, easily. It just didn't have enough time to show off its potential.
Yep. It's connected to a (most likely) HD TV anyways, it might as well do something about it.
That's not totally true, power doesn't equal good games.
Obviously generalizing is the wrong thing to do here but I do believe that if the system was stronger, it would recieve more attention - at least that's a safe assumption. It's drowning in its own shovelware and the diamonds among the coal are really hard to spot from a distance.
True, but more power at least puts your console on the multiplatform release list. See the current generation of consoles: any multiplat (he he, silly word) title is released for the PC, X360 and PS3, and the Wii gets a severely crippled version of the game, if it gets the title at all. Power isn't everything, but it doesn't hurt.
Most people think that if the Wii U doesn't have OMFG graphics, it will fail comparable to the next Playstation or Xbox, however, people need to understand that there can't be that much of an improvement, at most the PS3 and 360 will have comparable graphics to what our PC's (well, the good spec ones) are currently capable of, consoles are a step behind the consoles in graphical power and that's something that won't change any time soon. The WiiU needs to be powerful, I'll say 1.5 compared to the PS3 (the top console in terms of graphics atm), however still inferior to what our PC's "could" offer.The current setup is perfectly fine, although I would probably add some more RAM so that it's a nice, round 1 gig simply because I have a round number fetish.
Other than that, "slightly more powerful than the PS3" is more than enough - the main issue with the current generation consoles is severe lack of memory rather than lack of computational power.
This next generation will not be a war just on hardware - it will the the continuation of what happened this generation. A war on hardware, features and services.
Consoles became more than just things you play your games on - they need to be full-blown and preferrably network-integrated media hubs. If the WiiU succeeds at that (for example, using the WiiU remote to choose songs in an internal music player while being in the other room sounds like a good feature) and perhaps includes certain cloud functionality or network functionality that will allow it to share content with computers, it's going to be a blast.
