Well, for me, the Song "these dreams" by Heart makes me think of the Sega Dreamcast
How about you folks?
How about you folks?
Roger Miller - Engine, Engine No. 9
The Wii U.
Thing could not even get companies to port a single then relevant engine to it. Hilarious.
Imagine if instead of the Wii, the Wii U was Nintendo's new system after the GameCube to directly compete with the PS3 and 360. It would have almost certainly been a completely different success story for the system (not that the Wii needed a substitution to be successful, but it's hard not to see how much better the Wii U would have done if it actually were directly competing with the systems it's just about as powerful as with the unique at the time features of optional motion control and the GamePad controller).
N64 was in some ways more powerful than the PS1. This is especially true when it comes to graphics, overall. Definitely not sound, though.I don't know.
While the gamecube was not as atrocious a failure as the N64 they were not exactly flying high and well beloved by game devs and gamers at large.
Cost per unit would likely not have been that low.
Processor would still have been junk (360 and PS3 might have both been powerpc as well but the former was a solid workhorse and while the latter was odd it was never the less extremely potent it you could tame it).
Internal storage probably still wanting (though compared to PS360 then maybe)
Online services would have been junk. Not a great problem for me but online was a somewhat popular thing during all this. Whether they would have continued to give it away for free I don't know. Maybe though.
Most devs used to the sorts of investments warranted for mid tier games if doing basic game development would have had very little else to look at.
Motion control was a gimmick and while secret information is a great concept in games (see most of PC multiplayer, or more pure examples in tabletop efforts) I am still not predicting much would have happened.
I would have been an interesting time had they decided to once more try to rock up with some power enough to go head to head but I doubt we would be seeing some kind of Nintendo domination or industry leading efforts (which for home consoles has not really been since the SNES at this point).
I don't know.
While the gamecube was not as atrocious a failure as the N64 they were not exactly flying high and well beloved by game devs and gamers at large.
Cost per unit would likely not have been that low.
Processor would still have been junk (360 and PS3 might have both been powerpc as well but the former was a solid workhorse and while the latter was odd it was never the less extremely potent it you could tame it).
Internal storage probably still wanting (though compared to PS360 then maybe)
Online services would have been junk. Not a great problem for me but online was a somewhat popular thing during all this. Whether they would have continued to give it away for free I don't know. Maybe though.
Most devs used to the sorts of investments warranted for mid tier games if doing basic game development would have had very little else to look at.
Motion control was a gimmick and while secret information is a great concept in games (see most of PC multiplayer, or more pure examples in tabletop efforts) I am still not predicting much would have happened.
I would have been an interesting time had they decided to once more try to rock up with some power enough to go head to head but I doubt we would be seeing some kind of Nintendo domination or industry leading efforts (which for home consoles has not really been since the SNES at this point).
Well flying high has little to do with the success of the next system. Gamecube flew low, Wii flew high, Wii U flew low, Switch flies high. If anything the pattern seems to illustrate that the system to followup the GameCube was destined to be a success. Of course I don't think the success of the previous system makes much of any difference in this regard, so I give that thought very little credence in any direction.
Online would be junk, but its junk on Switch too, and that system is still quite a success. At the end of the day it's gonna be the games that matter most, and I have to imagine a LOT more of those third party games at the time would have come to the Wii U and not in the compromised state that any multiplat third party games that the Wii typically saw.
At the very least it would certainly have sold better, I have little doubt about that.
This makes me think of the Amiga line from Commodore.
As far as third parties I do fear you are underestimating the awfulness of the Wii U processor vs what was available for the PS360.