While at E3 awaiting the beginning of the Nintendo press conference I spoke with some people around me who were also waiting. As luck would have it, many of them were developers and so I asked what were their expectations of the new console.
While none of them were willing to talk about real hard numbers, most likely due to NDA or whatever, which I can respect. They were all willing to talk about the power of the machine in broad general terms.
The general consensus? The Wii U would be as powerful as the Xbox 360.
That sort of made me scratch my head. They were bringing out, what I now know to be a really cool console with an innovative (again!) controller, and they were going to just match a six-year-old console for power? Not even the most powerful of the current generation of consoles?
This, as we all know, is Nintendo’s MO (modus operandi or operating mode FYI). They don’t generally bring out the biggest, most powerful machine. They bring out a machine that has something unique about it and then differentiate based on that.
