So launch Wii U titles look as good if not better than end-gen 360/Ps3 titles after developers have sucked every ounce of power out?
Its as if people don't realize the only logical way to compare graphics is via launch titles. Batman on Wii U looks significantly better than anything from the 360/Ps3 launch, COD:MW3 looks much better than Perfect Dark Zero. Heck just compare the graphics on specific consoles. Compare Oblivion to Skyrim, both on 360. Thats the sort of significant graphical leap you see from launch to late in the console life cycle. So if the Wii U is already running maxed-out Ps3/360 games, at launch, doesn't it make sense that the Wii U has to be more powerful? Is logic really so far out of reach of fanboys and trolls? Never underestimate how much further hardware can be pushed in a console, and definitely don't underestimate how highly clocked the Wii U CPU is for a short-instruction-set CPU.
Who cares what's logical, were talking about marketing here. A company releases a *new* more *expensive* console with games that do not look or play any differently than what already exists on 7 year old machines that cost less.*
It has been said literally hundreds of times on gaf, and backed up by thousands of screenshoots and youtube videos: PS3/X360 showed a very large and very noticeable jump in image quality compared to PS2/xbox1. It is a fact. It did not take until year 7 of the ps360 for that jump to be noticeable, it was day 1. The fact that the wii u does not show this obvious jump, means nintendo cannot use that as a marketing tool, which means less sales. The potential power of the console means nothing if their is nothing to show consumers.
And of course Nintendo knows this, that's why there is no Ninty E3. What would they show to consumers to get them excited? Like it or not, all they could show is games that look like what we've seen for the last 7 years. This would hurt the wii u's sales, no matter how fun or how much the games took advantage of the gamepad tablet. Their bowing out of E3 in terms of no public presser is an admission that whatever it is they have ready isn't salable to the general public. That's why they are only going to be showing it to Nintendo fans via Directs.
*Yes, I know, Nintendoland is supposed to be the asynchronous hook proving how different the console is, but it is a single game. And it is a minigame collection, how many people got burnt on wii minigame collections?