Who is to blame for Nintendo's low-powered console approach?

Third party games do not matter. soundcellx

Well there's no 1 person to blame, but if you want to blame then it'd be the person in charge of Nintendo. :p Maybe Nintendo took the right approach?...looking at the competitions both are still just mid range PC specs not really high end stuff.

Read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi#Lateral_Thinking_with_Withered_Technology

Ben Bernanke

metroidfood

Nintendo has set themselves up in a better position this generation than they did last. The Wii U's architecture (the GPU specifically) seems to share similiarities with the PS4 in terms of how it works, leading me to believe that the Wii U be able to get downports of a lot of titles for a few years. It's until more developers start to use that extra RAM the other platform has that it'll run into problems, though I still don't think it'll be an issue for major publishers to create a downport.

Ultimately, it's going to come down to two things. Nintendo trying to get third parties on board and whether or not third parties will see a Wii U version as being a viable option. Though, it seems like it shouldn't be that hard to do if the architecture is similar to other platforms.

Since the Wii was a SD console, it required a lot more work to create a separate team to make a totally different version. The Wii U is not in that same position; look at Need for Speed: Most Wanted as an example. Criterion stated that they were able to add in PC assets into the Wii U version very easily. If that's the case of for the Wii U, expect decent ports for multiplatform titles, assuming that developers think it's viable. 

The doom & gloom for Nintendo is also getting tiresome. If you honestly think that Nintendo is alone in sluggish sales, you'll be in for a surprise this coming Holiday season.

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it has enough power, but whos to blame ? look at n64 gc two highly powerful machines compared to competition at the time,  yet look at the sales of ps1 and 2 , 

thats whos to blame ,--- the people who didnt support nintendo  then , but expect them to keep continuing down the path to failure lol  simply put it , any one who says wiiu isnt powerful enough=a hypocrite 

KBFloYd

Yeah but that goes to Nintendo just not knowing any better.

The N64 was a failure because Nintendo thought that disc based gaming was a fad and that cartridges were more secure, they also had an architecture that wasn't dev friendly.

The Gamecube had similar problems.

Both consoles point out that Nintendo didn't really get it.

Nintendo is the out of touch grandparent that gets you the iPode at Christmas and then wonders why you're disappointed.

bulllcrap...rare had no problems making n64 games....and the gamecube was more powerful than the ps2..... 3rd partys ditched nintendo....and i still dont know why.

When it comes to the Gamecube, he's kinda right but for the most part, he normally talks out his ass. The reason I say he's kinda right when it comes to the Gamecube, was that it didn't have programable shaders like the Xbox but it could get something that was pretty much the same, the problem with it been the way Nintendo had it was that it took a lot more time and effort to get the same results that Xbox could achieve.

This is why some 3rd party games looked flat out better than both the PS2 and Gamecube version but when a developer did take the extra time and effort, it meant that a Gamecube game could stand with the best of the Xbox.

The problem for 3rd parties was that the game sales were rather low and so they didn't see much reason to put the extra effort in and so this is no doubt one of the biggest reasons why most Wii games didn't look better than Xbox's best looking games.

When it comes to the Gamecube, he's kinda right but for the most part, he normally talks out his ass. The reason I say he's kinda right when it comes to the Gamecube, was that it didn't have programable shaders like the Xbox but it could get something that was pretty much the same, the problem with it been the way Nintendo had it was that it took a lot more time and effort to get the same results that Xbox could achieve.

This is why some 3rd party games looked flat out better than both the PS2 and Gamecube version but when a developer did take the extra time and effort, it meant that a Gamecube game could stand with the best of the Xbox.

The problem for 3rd parties was that the game sales were rather low and so they didn't see much reason to put the extra effort in and so this is no doubt one of the biggest reasons why most Wii games didn't look better than Xbox's best looking games.

Mitazaki

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When it comes to the Gamecube, he's kinda right but for the most part, he normally talks out his ass. The reason I say he's kinda right when it comes to the Gamecube, was that it didn't have programable shaders like the Xbox but it could get something that was pretty much the same, the problem with it been the way Nintendo had it was that it took a lot more time and effort to get the same results that Xbox could achieve.

This is why some 3rd party games looked flat out better than both the PS2 and Gamecube version but when a developer did take the extra time and effort, it meant that a Gamecube game could stand with the best of the Xbox.

The problem for 3rd parties was that the game sales were rather low and so they didn't see much reason to put the extra effort in and so this is no doubt one of the biggest reasons why most Wii games didn't look better than Xbox's best looking games.

GunSmith1_basic

You fail so much at the history of gaming it's not even worth responding to you except to scoff at that nonsense you posted.

Ben Bernanke

metroidfood

This.

Being serious though, I don't know. Backward compatibility maybe? I don't especially care if the consoles aren't that powerful though, that's what my PC is for.

nintendo's has always been frugal. it's simple. 

Nintendo should have made the Wii U at the very least exactly Double the power of Xbox 360. Instead Nintendo has settled for matching the Xbox 360. Which is fine for 1 year. November 18th 2012- November 18th 2013. Should the next Xbox launch this November.

So Iwata is the person to "blame" for the Wii U low powered. console approach. He could have future proofed the Wii U since this would have made porting 8th generation games from Xbox 720 and Playstation 4 more readily easier for third parties. The third party developers have been somewhat reluctant to port Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games over to the Wii U. Even if the Nintendo console matches the power of Sony's and MS current machines.

So the C.E.O of Nintendo is ulitmately responsible for the Wii U and Nintendo's approach in general. Which has hit a snag. But the videogame industry in general has taken a hit. But the bad worldwide economy. The Wii U current sales is partly due to bad ecomony. Not just the "power" of the Wii U.

Iwata is the Boss so all decisions have to pass by him. The Wii U will be alright eventually.

Megavideogamer

I think Nintendo just doesn't know any better.

Remmeber this is the company that's constantly  missing what's popular.

Remember when they thought that disc based gaming was a fad?

The idea that they underpower on purpose isn't exactly right I think.

They don't understand what the need for the next gen, they instead skimp on parts and find devs who can work with less.

You also see their devs have trouble when it comes to more power, look at Game Freak and how they're completely clueless when it comes to the power of the 3DS, the new Pokemon game looks downright ugly.

Jaysonguy