Nintendo NX confirmed for 2016 release!

@emgesp: Call it like you see it with games you haven't played. You didn't say you didn't own a Wii U, but it's just that obvious. You can't just watch a bunch of youtube videos and judge that way. But I have played all of those Ps3 games, and they're just not as good as Wii U stuffs. Bayonetta 2 has better lighting/effects and runs faster than GOW, need for speed beats any racing game on Ps3 or 360, Tropical freeze and 3D world look better than cartoon like games on PS3 and run twice as fast. All this extra memory and a better gpu, but 100% of the developers who made games for Wii U can't beat Ps3 games. Mhm. Even compared to 360's games those cinematic PS3 exclusives were overrated graphically when they came out.

I do own a NES, but it doesn't matter what I own or you own, plenty of fanboys own consoles they don't particularly like. It does matter however, that you don't own a Wii U but seem to fancy yourself an expert on its games, and love to point out its sales frequently. Personally I don't care that it's sold badly, I get what I want out of it, but I do know the more competition the better. I am critical of them, the Wii U should've been more powerful, they should've supported it better and the tablet was half baked, but I also know what i'm talking about and have experience with it. The Wii as well, Nintendo's definitely made mistakes that I haven't been happy with, but I give credit where credit is due, they still make far better games than the first party hacks at Sony and MS.

You're too obvious.

You need to lay off your assumptions buddy. I've had extensive time on the Wii U for me to judge it adequately. No, you don't have to own a product to be able to have an opinion about it. I don't bash the Wii U simply because it sold badly, two of my favorite consoles sold like crap (TG-16 and Dreamcast), so that's a non factor. I bash it because it deserves to be bashed. It's a 8th gen console, with 7th generation level horsepower, weak third party support and has an expensive tablet controller that has been underutilized to say the least. Don't forget it's still priced only $50 cheaper than both the PS4/XB1.

Notice, you never see me bash the 3DS because I think its a decent handheld. I personally didn't buy one because handhelds in general just don't interest me anymore.

I still don't see how me disliking the Wii U proves I'm not a true Nintendo fan. I swear I'm gonna keep posting this pic until its ingrained in your heads that I'm not BS'ing when i say Nintendo is my favorite gaming company.

Yes its power efficient as it should be considering it came out 7 yrs after the 360 while only offering about 1.5x more horsepower. The PS4 offers better performance per watt than the Wii U. Wii U = 33 watts TDP with around 300 Gflops raw floating point performance. PS4 (Revised Motherboard) = 115 watts TDP with performance of 1.84 Tflops

PS4 is around 6x more capable than the Wii U while consuming only around 3.5x more watts.

For somebody whose favorite gaming company is Nintendo you sure try hard to make them look bad.

1.84 tf / 5 = 368 gigaflops vs. Wii U's 352. 5.2x stronger, yeah that's around 6x. And you use the revised Ps4 against the launch Wii U, first off you should compare the launch Ps4 and second Nintendo improves their consoles as well, Wii got 2 die shrinks but Nintendo doesn't report that stuff and wasn't found out until later. Wii U's today could very well be more efficient.

And no, no Ps3 game can match Wii U's best. The difference in hardware is so obvious that Criterion implemented the PC version's high res textures for need for speed U in 10 minutes with no performance hit. The memory gap is just that big, forget about the DX 10 gpu. That game almost looks next gen at night, a launch window 3rd party title. Wii U games, pretty consistently have higher res textures, better lighting and higher frame rates than 360 and Ps3 games.

Nintendo is your favorite gaming company like Monsanto is my favorite produce company.

I don't believe for 1 second that Wii U is 368 gigaflops. The GPU is just 176 gigaflops and no way does that weak CPU make up the difference. The main strengths of Wii U is the DX10-class / shader model 4.1 GPU feature set and efficiency and the larger amount of RAM. Not a much higher performance GPU which does not exist in that console.

@emgesp: Night lighting reflections and lod. Like I said, you need more than youtube videos, it looks quite great. Definitely the standout Wii U port.

In the daytime it looks nice, but in the Ps3 and 360 versions the night lighting is this kind of green haze that was common in that generation, Red dead redemption has that. It really looks like night in NFS U, and with all the lights, improved textures and reflections going it looks pretty impressive.

Backwards compatibility with the Wii U, I never owned one so buying a NX with a massive log of great wii u games would be great, and boost sales for wii u software

Seems unlikely, Nintendo have made it very clear that they want a complete break from the Wii line with the NX