Earlier this week I had the chance to go hands-on with Nintendo's upcoming console, the Wii U. This follow-up to the Wii offers a quirky tablet-style controller with a touchscreen in the centre, which adds an extra screen to your gaming experience.
It's interesting, intriguing, and while I'm medically allergic to the word innovative, it's definitely different to what competitors are trotting out. Like the Wii before it, the Wii U will offer a whole new way to experience games.
But the thing is, 'like the Wii' isn't much of an accolade. Because while an all-new control system sounds great on paper, it turned out that crafting games to take advantage of Nintendo's waggly new toy was too hard, boring, or financially uninspiring for developers to bother with.
The Wii wound up virtually devoid of exciting games, with Nintendo's faithful franchises (Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Super Smash Bros. Brawl) the only gems to sparkle in a quarry full of horrible minigame collections.
When I went hands-on with the Wii U it felt all too familiar. Games like ZombiU certainly make use of the fun new peripheral, but then so did Red Steel, the ill-fated first-person shooter/slasher launch title for the Wii. If ZombiU turns out to be a bit naff, will other developers take up the charge and get creative with Ninty's console? The Wii U version of Batman: Arkham City felt kind-of-okay, but if it doesn't sell well, will we see any other blockbusters ported to Nintendo's console?
Along with a bellyful of grim rhetorical questions, I felt the analogue controls on the Wii U were less sensitive than their Xbox and PlayStation counterparts, and graphically, while I won't say it looked any worse than Microsoft and Sony's machines, it definitely didn't look any better.
So for a multitude of reasons, I'm sceptical about developer enthusiasm for the Wii U. Which would be fine for Nintendo, except I'm not sure the casual market that made the Wii a success still exists.
For one or two glorious Christmases, Nintendo convinced nigh-on every family in the UK to buy a Wii, just to have a go at that bowling one off the telly. And actually, for a full Boxing Day's entertainment, at £220 (or thereabouts) the Wii was pretty good value. I mean, you could easily spend that much taking Gran and the kids out in London for the day, once you factor in gift shops, right?
Good times successfully had by all, the nation collectively put the Wii away in a cupboard and went to put some ice on that painful Wii elbow. And a few new year dalliances with Wii Fit aside, I think for many people that's where the Wii love affair ended.
I'd be amazed if Nintendo can repeat the trick. With a complicated new controller fronting the show, will many of the casual crowd who bought the Wii feel compelled to upgrade? I suspect not.
I wasn't encouraged by Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata's recent remarks regarding the competition, either -- dismissively asking whether gamers would really know the difference between today's consoles and hypothetical beefed-up machines from rival companies.
The subtext to this whole shebang is that Nintendo needs the Wii U to work. The company posted its first annual loss in April, following floundering Wii sales and a lack of enthusiasm for its 3DS handheld.
Increasingly it feels as if Microsoft had the better long-term strategy -- luring folks in with blockbuster games, then convincing them to stick around with online gaming, and a bevy of TV and movie apps.
Am I wrong? Will the Wii U defy my doubts and be embraced by the people, cherished as a son and loved across the land? Or do you also feel a gnawing scepticism in your gut? Tell me in the comments or on our Facebook wall, and if you fancy seeing the Wii U in action, you can see me testing it out -- and expressing some of the fears scribbled above -- in the video embedded below.
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anonymous 15 June, 2012 18:35
I would like to tell you to shut up its your opinion and just because you didnt like the wii and now the ii u does not spell doom for it sorry but there are far more positive reviews on this machine then negative so no on cares about how skeptical you feel fool.
anonymous 15 June, 2012 18:53
Good piece. Well written, cogently argued and with some useful historical context and insight into wider industry and developer trends.
Whoever wrote the first comment above is a twit!
anonymous 15 June, 2012 19:03
you ugly
anonymous 15 June, 2012 19:05
This reads like a fan boy article. I'm buying the wii u because it is the latest and greatest plus since it is a new console I can expect to see few, if any, cheaters/hackers in online multi-playing. When Sony and MS bring out their new consoles in a year or two....i will sell the Wii U on ebay for again...the latest and greatest. See, as a true gamer and not a fanboy....im going to experience it all. ;)
anonymous 15 June, 2012 19:09
ZombiU doesn't look like Red Steel, it looks %&$#ing amazing.
anonymous 15 June, 2012 19:30
I do not know if you realize this but you have proven Mr. Iwata correct because you stated graphically, you didnt see a difference and yet the Wii u is moderately more powerful than what is currently available or are you going to tell us that a multi-core cpu of today has the same power as the ones created 6 years ago?!
anonymous 15 June, 2012 19:47
red steel was crap, red steel 2 was awesome.. but seriously i buy nintendo for the first party titles like metroid, zelda, mario, kart, xenoblade, smash bros.. the list goes on and on. If nintendo and wii u can get the big 3rd party games then i can finally stick to one console and my pc.
black ops 2 as a launch title is looking increasingly likely aswell :).. is it november yet?
anonymous 15 June, 2012 20:33
"The Wii wound up devoid of exciting games, with only Nintendo's faithful franchises (Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Super Smash Bros. Brawl) the only gems to sparkle in a quarry full of horrible minigame collections."
Don't people get tired of repeating this rubbish over and over? Look at all the games on this list that were Not from Nintendo:
http://wii.ign.com/articles/104/1048874p1.html
You were probably one of the people who predicted that the Wii would be a colossal failure & yet it sold 100 Million Units to crush the PS3 & the Xbox 360.
The Wii won the current generation. Don't be surprised if the Wii U wins the next generation too.
anonymous 15 June, 2012 20:40
I believe it's never wise to bet against Nintendo. We hear this all the time. Nintendo is gonna flop blah blah blah. Yet it never happens. I remember everyone saying the DS would flop because of the PSP. It didn't. In fact the DS went on to be the second highest selling console of all time behind the PS2. People said the Wii would fail. It didn't. While sales for Wii may have slowed down today, it still has the highest sales of the current gen consoles. People said the 3DS would fail. After the price cut and some first party titles became available, the 3DS is selling better than the DS did at this time in its life and it has more competition that its predecessor did with smart phone gaming and all.
Whatever MS and Sony do with their next gen consoles, at the end of the day they will be just like the current gen consoles. They will have online gaming and play games in HD 1080p. Sure they will have more "raw power" than the current gen systems do but how many gamers actually now what specs mean? We can all read it but in my opinion the greater majority of gamers out there don't know what any of that means. All they know is what they see on the TV screen. What they will see on the TV screen next gen is HD 1080p just like the current gen. If "raw power" is so important to some gamers out there than they need to play PC gaming. No matter what MS and Sony do they will always feel dated when compared to what PC's will be capable of.
anonymous 15 June, 2012 21:05
I think Nintendo will be fine. Sony and Microsoft IMO didn't do so well this gen at least in the begging. Does anyone out there remember how poorly the PS3 did for the first 3-4 years of its life? It wasn't selling that well at all. I think Sony lost a lot of its fan base to the 360. Why? Because the 360 did everything the PS3 did minus the Blue Ray. By not having the Blue Ray, the 360 was cheaper and it sold more as a result. It seems to me that gamers tend to go with what's cheapest. Sure there are some people out there that would spend thousands of dollars on a new system but the majority won't. When the next Microsoft and Sony consoles are released whichever one is cheaper will probably win in terms of sales.
Look at the 3DS and Vita. When 3DS was priced at $250 I didn't hear too many people saying it wasn't worth that price. They just didn't want to pay that much. Now with the Vita it's the same thing. Nobody is saying the Vita isn't worth the $250 or $299 price tags. They simply don't want to pay that much for them.
Given Sony's poor sales of the PS3 for the first 3 years of the systems life, which you know lost them lots of money, and the current poor sales of the Vita, I think Sony is the company that is most in trouble currently. They better blow our socks off come the next gen or it could spell doom for them.
I still can't understand how given the Vita's poor sales, at E3 all Sony showed were 2 games. 2 games! That's it? Really Sony? I think they may have already given up on the Vita. When you have a new console and all you show are 2 games for it, it clearly shows to me that Sony has already lost interest in it. Very bad news for the 1.8 million gamers that already bought it.
anonymous 15 June, 2012 21:06
In my opinion the writer of the article is biased and a bit too quick to dismiss the console. I believe Iwata was correct to say that Microsoft and Sony will simply beef up their consoles and offer very little impressive in terms of the upgrade. It may be true that the wii largely sold due to novelty, but look how many units it sold and the same thing was seen in the rush for the Xbox Kinect. In my opinion the console offers something new and fun. It looks like for once Nintendo may give 3rd party companies a decent chance to make games for their console while still providing the usual Nintendo gems. I personally would also love to see a Pokemon RPG go HD!
(inb4 nintendo fan boy blah blah blah, I currently own a PS3 and think it is a great console, but also love my 3DS. I am trying to keep an open mind and be unbiased)
anonymous 15 June, 2012 21:37
Exactly my thoughts!!!
It was if i was reading my mind. I feel the same way about the Wii U. I dont know what the others (Sony Microsoft) think to offer yet but this time i will wait them.
First of all i did not like even 1 game from the things they showed. This is something that never happened in my life as a Nintendo fan. With the original Wii things were different. I truly believed that no matter what graphics it had, the 3rd party would support it because it was a best seller and it was easy to port ps2 games etc. Well i thought wrong. After the first 2 years things became tragic. The only games that were playable were Nintendo Stuff and of course not all of them. I am not a fan of Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Music and the whole Wii something series. I was raised playing HARDCORE Metroid, Zelda etc. Seeing the path Nintendo choose, does not make me want to follow. Hope it turns out good for them because i love the company but it feels not right for me to praise this path.
This time even the BEST Zelda and the BEST Metroid cannot change my mind. I want to be amazed with graphics and new technology. Wii U does not offer any of these things. Its just a new Wii and i dont understand why Nintendo is giving up its fanbase. Most of us left Nintendo with the arrival of wii, and now with the arrival of the WiiU (a hardware similar with the 6year old XBOX360) its time for more people dedicated to Nintendo to leave also.
Bye Bye from a true fan.
anonymous 15 June, 2012 22:14
I believe the Wii U will do alright, it may or may not be as huge as the Wii is but it will be a huge hit for sure. One thing I want to say about power and graphics to the author of this article is that you only have to look back to the GameCube to show that power does not equal success, the GameCube being more powerful than the ps2 at the time didn't sell amazingly well for a Nintendo console and yet it was a powerful little thing for its time, and you must agree, it had a proper gamers controller with no gimmicks and had some great games but sadly it didn't do very well in sales. And though the Wii was inferior to the HD twins you left out many many fantastic games on your list. And another thing I want to point out is that Nintendo make some of the greatest games in house, Skyward Sword, Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 were truly amazing for what the Wii could do. If Nintendo can keep making games as special as those then they will be just fine. I buy Nintendo consoles for mostly first party games, while I'm still not sure how great the Wii U gamepad might work out I know that the games will justify buying the product. I'm looking forward to a true HD Zelda, 3D Mario title, Metroid, Smash Bros and many many more. And whatever Retro studio is working on because I hear their secret game is going to be huge.
anonymous 15 June, 2012 22:15
to the person above.. if u wanted to be amazed with graphics and new technology why do you play consoles. so either you are just incredibly stupid or just ignorant because "new" for console means 3 or 4 generations old for PC.
We are getting Assassin's creed 3 which is looking head and shoulders above the rest in the graphics department and this is a port and its first generation wii u. Go compare what a launch title for 360 looked like to current releases.. the difference is huge. So even if Xbox and PS4 are waaaay ahead in terms of hardware to the Wii U it wont really matter because you wont really be able to tell straight away and by then nintendo will be plotting its next console.
ZombiU
Assassins creed 3
mario bros
pikmin 3
lego city (looks awesome)
batman
just dance
ninja gaiden 3 (which improved and changed alot of the crap from the xbox and ps version)
Scribblenauts
mass effect 3
tank tank tank
trine 2
rayman legends
project p
tekken
+ 2 EA titles
and very likely CoD: black ops 2
all these in its launch window with more to be announced so im sorry if youre not impressed then just go play some angry birds.
anonymous 16 June, 2012 00:32
The writer of this article is slightly biased in my opinion. I think most games in the video look gorgeous. More beautiful than most ps3 games to be honest. Im especially impressed about the tablet screen being able to produce a flawless replica of the picture on the tv screen.
anonymous 16 June, 2012 08:46
Hi again. I am the one who wants to be amazes (again). So... in response to the person..above :D
check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdGxUyGc1tg Its the new engine of square enix (the graphics are real time and not prerendered).
THATS WHAT I WANT FROM THE NEXT GEN.
As for your suggestion to go buy a pc....
To play what?? a just well polished version of COD? When i mean Amazed i mean AMAZED.
PC sucks cause you must give a lot of money for some extra details. (of course is a power machine but with no true developmend).
If the difference between WiiU and PS4 is what console vs PC has to offer, by all means i will buy a WiiU FIRST DAY.
Think about what we could see for the next Zelda or Metroid with the above engine and tell me again, if i am stupid or the ones that will buy a console with current gen hardware. Its as if they ebrasse Nintendo for what they do. NO i cant give them a credit for what they do (for a second time!!!).
Dont you want to see Zelda and Metroid with the best looking graphics?? Different controls are good but not the point.
anonymous 16 June, 2012 11:41
This site is best ignored
"following floundering Wii sales and a lack of enthusiasm for its 3DS handheld."
Not the case at all
3ds has been number 1 in the world since last june
with sales higher than what the ds had
anonymous 16 June, 2012 11:44
We always doom nintendo, and then every gen every one of there pieces of hardware makes profit at number 1 or 2 levels........
what else can they do for you?
Tech, is quite irrelevant, not only in selling systems but making great games
With the best launch lineup IN HISTORY
trolls will always toll nintendo until they have to eat crow
and this site has had to eat 3ds crow
no system is doing better..........
anonymous 16 June, 2012 12:01
i think nintendo did fail to show people how awesome their system is and with no serious first party game to do that things do look bad pikman was developed for the wii so it still looks like a wii game but this gen should've started with a new metriod to move the systems its the core game people want to see
anonymous 16 June, 2012 12:16
^ no serious first party games so things look bad? are for real?
Mario U is a 20 million seller
wii fit u is a 10 million seller
pikmin will sell
game and wario will sell
the 3ds started with frikin pilot wings and nintendogs and its been in first place for over a year now...........
anonymous 16 June, 2012 12:37
We dont care about the sales. Of course Wii Fit is a Blast, of course Mario U could be a blast. NOT FOR US though...
anonymous 16 June, 2012 14:05
I wonder why all this hate against Nintendo in the media? Were they been paid by Gamespot? hahaha
billfred 16 June, 2012 14:20
Nintendo have been failing ever since the N64 (best console ever!) There seem to be a lot of short sighted comments here talking about them releasing it and then thinking about their next console. Surely that defeats the point. As for the controller, it looks unwieldy and unpolished at best.
anonymous 16 June, 2012 14:40
I'm a little worried myself. Certainly the Wii U will sell well this year; Nintendophiles will all snap it up, and you can see from some of the angry comments that there are still people very enthusiastic about the Wii U, but it seems less likely to pull in casual gamers than the Wii and Nintendo's talk of courting the core gamer is looking to be more talk than action. But until I've actually tried the console I'm not going to write it off.
anonymous 16 June, 2012 15:23
Wii U is at least as powerful as the ps3/xbox. And its modern architecture means much more efficiency from the GPU & CPU + modern rendering techniques + DX11 more than likely... any game released for ps3 & xbox can also be out on wii u looking and performing better. What this means is that developers will undoubtedly eventually developbfor it since the 'next generation' of consoles is 2-3 years away wii u will have established its base, as developers get used to it it will significantly outperform the current consoles and the ability to support all multiplatform games without downscaling as the wii required + nintendos amazing first party games means that wii u might start a bit slow (what doesn't after all?) But it will start steamrolling soon enough. The controller is not unweildy at all btw. Wait till retail demos... it is actually extremely surprisingly comfortable and feels natural. Nintendo knows how to make controllers :P.
assassins creed 3 is already coming to wii u.. sometimes developers are hesitant to put products they are near completion on a new platform.. which is why we don't see ALL the multiplatfrms announced uet.. but they will start coming onboard in the next months. You will see. M$ & sony can't afford making hugely powerful new consoles again (they've both lost substantoal amounts on the ps3 & 360.. which are only now beecoming profitable for the companies.
In short they can't afford to make wii u obsolete with power upgrades, wiivu is being tweaked to allow U.E4 support.. which will be the ace of the next generation consoles so they wont outperform wii u. Wii us installed base by 2-3 years will mmke it so developers will stick tobit. And Nintendo once again will prove themselves to us.
anonymous 17 June, 2012 00:15
@Billfred... and yet nearly everyone whose used it have said nothing but positive things for it. For the whiney people who dont like it, you get the wiiU pro controller or turtle beach controller.
@Not for us comment.. so assassins creed 3, batman, ninja gaiden 3, mass effect 3, zombiU arent for you lol what is then? and we are still getting big announcements before wii u launch confirmed by activision, EA and nintendo so its likely we will be getting fifa, black ops 2 and at least one more title. So not only do u get the first party but the 3rd party too.. yet still whining not for us.
anonymous 17 June, 2012 08:32
yawn....I'm still buying my wii u on day one!
Omar Marshall 17 June, 2012 17:04
Wii u will be mine on day one. I am positive.
billfred 18 June, 2012 11:37
Yes it will out perform the current gen machines, but how can you really call this "next gen". It'll be blown out the water by real next gen consoles, which are surely only 18 months away? No? You can scream and shout that it's not about power and graphics but the usage stat say otherwise, why not strive for more realism whilst creating engaging games at the same time?
anonymous 19 June, 2012 00:30
You're not wrong. This console has failure written all over it. What made the Wii interesting was the controller. Where is it now? It is gone. Replaced by joypads. And what is the point of having a screen? That doesn't offer anything novel like the Wii controller did and only adds to the cost of the console making it overpriced.
May as well stick with the Wii or get an Xbox.
anonymous 19 June, 2012 15:05
The biggest problem with the Wii was the Wii-mote. It had it's moments, especially Skyward Sword and Resident Evil 4, and to a point Goldeneye, but all of those games would have been better with a normal controller. It just never felt like a polished experiment.
It's a very good move for Nintendo to develop a proper gamer's controller, and still offer support for the wii-mote.
I suppose the problem with this console is it looks a bit like Wii HD, better graphics and a proper analogue stick controller, but this should probably have come a couple of years ago.
I think they'll be fine though. With the N64 (amazing console) and the Gamecube Nintendo had a decent amount of 'mature' games (most notably Resident Evil 4), as well as some seriously well made game for proper gamers of any age (Windwalker, Twilight Princess for instance). With the Wii they seemed to forgot all of that. Three of their best games were ports or remakes (Goldeneye, which was very good, Skyward Sword, Resident Evil 4, and Twilight Princess, ironically for me the two ports made the best out of the wii mote). They had a few good games but the marketing for them was never there. I think using the kind of celebrities to advertise their products that they did probably put a few more serious gamers off as well, the adverts always come across as very tacky.
If the Wii U has a low price, good controller, good graphics, and a good range of the most popular third party games and some good originals (Zombie U looks excellent, but so did Red Steel...), then it will be fine. An issue for them could be if the recent trend of families buying consoles for family fun has lost momentum, but Nintendo kicked that revolution off, and not the first revolution they've started, so I wouldn't bet against them reviving it.
Nintendo always has it's doubters, and it's always fine.
iStevieC 19 June, 2012 18:29
I will be buying the Wii U regardless of the opinions from MS or Sony lovers, Nintendo is good for me.. the end.
Iokasti Kassie 20 June, 2012 03:07
The person who said the wii-mote was the biggest problem of the wii needs to stop being idiotic. The wii-mote was the unique selling point of the wii.
The new wii-U doesn't really have a unique selling point. It has a boring touchscreen instead, which is nothing new. The Wii-U has failure written all over it for Nintendo, no matter what the Nintendo fanboys say, and we shall see that over the coming months. It really is very obvious to anyone with a brain that it will fail.
anonymous 20 June, 2012 10:36
I buy a console for the quality of games and experience. I had a Playstation, I had an N64, I have an XBox 360 and I have a Wii, I would say that the Wii is my least favourite of them for two reasons: 1) Lack of serious quality, innovative games (three of the best games were ports and a remake) and 2) The wii-mote never felt like a fully finished and polished experiment. It often felt awkward to use when you wanted to make minute adjustments, and anyone who has played Goldeneye on the wii will surely tell you what a nightmare something as simple as turning around could be which ruined game play, you have to go through the game knowing that if someone attacks you from behind, it's game over. The idea in Goldeneye of using the wii-mote to point and shoot is good, but somehow playing Call of Duty with a conventional controller is far more satisfying and far less frustrating.
The wii-mote is GREAT for certain games, like the mini-games, and some sports games, but for me, personally, in my opinion, given the choice I would never use the wii-mote for proper games.
anonymous 20 June, 2012 12:21
They could have included an upgraded version of the wii-mote. The wii-mote with motion plus is a much better experience than just the standard wii-mote.
anonymous 30 June, 2012 17:34
OK, listen. Whoever wrote this article, as much as I respect your opinion, I wholeheartedly disagree with it. Are you right in that the Wii's sales aren't what Nintendo had hoped for? Absolutely. Are you right in that the 3DS, so far, is turning into a big flop. Yes, you are. But do you really think that Nintendo is going to close up shop if the Wii U doesn't go down that well? Absolutely not! First off, that's simply NOT going to happen; second off, I highly doubt that the most prolific video game company in the world is going to shut down because of a few consoles that didn't do all that great.
Besides, the Wii is doing fine. It's the bestselling gaming system in the world! Its audience isn't exactly "hardcore gamer," but it's still selling? Yes, it is! Did Nintendo take a loss? Yes, it did. So, obviously it's time for something new! And the Wii U will completely revolutionize gaming as we know it!
anonymous 2 July, 2012 15:43
I think the Wii U will have a struggle to convince some that it is a worthwhile gaming machine. Not in small part, because of the software record of the Wii. Never-the-less, Nintendo did a very smart thing by aligning the Wii U's architecture with that of the P.C./Xbox. Along with their, reportedly, well-developed software tools for utilising the second screen, this, according to THQ, makes it very easy indeed, and therefore economical, to port multi-platform titles to the new machine. Though we might see a lot of such titles simply using the second screen in a perfunctory manner, just maps and inventory, ZombieU, which you mentioned does show some interesting, if fairly obvious, uses for the touch-screen. Next-gen fantasies and exaggerated controller worries aside, there is no real reason why the Wii U should not succeed.
anonymous 11 September, 2012 10:24
I personally think that all the main next-gen consoles are crappy in terms of both innovation and specifications (at least what is known so far). If this information turns out to be true, they will not justify upgrading our current hardware, just for a marginal improvement. Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have all disappointed us in the past, but now they went too far. The only suitable attitude is towards a boycott. Until they rise up to their consumers expectations we should not support them. We should be the ones that control them not the other way.
anonymous 20 November, 2012 20:34
Butt hurt Nintendo sad boys are sad. The Wii U sucks.
anonymous 23 November, 2012 04:29
The WiiU had Poor Pre-Sales and actual sales in the USA despite what anyone tells you. Some stores sold out but they were only shipped a dozen systems or less . My cousin works in a very large game store and its failing badly so far . Two of the biggest problems is Black Ops 2 came out on PS3 AND XBOX360 and nobody cares anymore about Nintendo game systems . You can only push so many different version of the DS before there's a tipping point and people say screw this .
anonymous 2 December, 2012 18:43
Hi all
Wii and Wii - u games for the euro market are manufactured in part in the UK.
So by slating something you haven't even tried but "don't like the look of", you are potentially doing someone out of a future.
I wouldn't say your article sucks, without reading it, or say the play station is poor cos I once had a problem on my Sony Walkman in 1990.
Try before you judge.
anonymous 3 December, 2012 10:48
I have to say, I agree. I have bought one (traded in the PS3 The original Wii and some games) but I can that this is not going to interest anyone but the die hards.
The lack of decent games at launch is putting me off and at £50 a pop, why would I?
We bought one, but within a couple of hours, (thats a couple of hours after the 2 hour download), we were back on the Xbox360.
We wanted it to work, but I feel like it needs to go on Ebay before its worthless when the next round of consoles are released.
anonymous 12 December, 2012 21:29
This is one of the few negative reviews I have found of the system, and everybody is trying to shout it down, by claiming that everybody but them is a butt hurt fan boy.
Also don't post thesis' nobody reads them and I would be lucky if anybody gets this far.
Here is my opinion; The Wii U will succeed or not.
P.S
I whomever is right, PC' do have superior graphics, but at a price and their constantly upgrading, whereas a launch console should be able to cope with games from the final line-up.
This is not good or bad it just is.