Wedbush declares Wii U "two years late"

[wraggster]

Nintendo's Wii U is arriving on the market at least two years late, according to influential analyst firm Wedbush Morgan.

In a note to investors, authored by Michael Pachter, Edward Woo and Nick McKay, the company pointed out that Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 footage was used to demonstrate third-party Wii U games - likely evidence that the system's high definition visuals will not surpass those of the current consoles.

"We think that Wii U is arriving two years late, given that the other HD consoles already have peripherals for movement," said the firm.

"As Nintendo did not provide any specifics around the new console's power or pricing (Nintendo used PS3 and Xbox 360 game footage in the Wii U presentation), we are assuming that the Wii U is unlikely to provide greater power than the current HD consoles," continued the report.

"If that is the case, we believe Nintendo has conceded a tremendous first mover advantage to Microsoft and Sony, which launched Kinect and Move control schemes, respectively, in late 2010."

The new tablet controller also failed to impress, largely due to it's role in multiplayer gaming.

"We were also disappointed by the recent announcement that each console can support only one of the new controllers, with the controllers for additional players coming from the original Wii."

The report also notes that the Wii U announcement "lost some impact" as a result of the limited information available about the new product. So far Nintendo has refused to offer detail on the console's performance, such as the type of graphic chip or more details on the IBM CPU.

Details of the PlayStation Vita received a better reception, with Wedbush calling Sony "smart to focus on power and core" but warning that success was dependent on strong launch games and the service provided to American 3G users by telecommunications partner AT&T.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...two-years-late

[djdynamite123]

3 years late you mean! Atleast if wer'e talking about when the hardware was created for PC.

Is this guy thick as hell? the new Wii U will feature a GFX chip close to a HD4850 or HD4890 modification from AMD (ATI). These are both in the r700 ATI family and if they use a HD4850 which is slower than a HD4890 then it will STILL be 6x+ the power of the equality 7800GTX that's inside the Xbox 360, plus atleast 9x the power of the rubbish GPU in PS3!

Lets just hope the power supply, processor and memory are fast enough to help stop any bottlenecking for developers!