Kotaku: new Nintendo console to be more poweful than Xbox 360, PS3

Kotaku today reports that a new Nintendo console set to debut at E3 in June will be "more powerful" than the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. (thanks, Joel Johnson)

• [Shart Tsung]

  It’s not about how powerful the systems are anymore. Isn’t Apple selling the most video games now?

• [Gutierrez]

  It’s good strategy. Be first to drop the new generation while you can tout your superiority over the other existing systems. You don’t have to drop overly powerful. You don’t need as huge of a gimmick. But the big question is: will there be a new gimmick? And if so, what? They hit first with cleanly integrated motion play (I know about the eye Toy and power glove and previous) but they marketed and won on that front. Once the competitors drop their own motion play devices that in some cases (Kinect) beat you at your new game, you drop your next generation.

  It’s just getting ahead of the competition to keep alive.

• [Anonymous]

  I’ll never buy another Nintendo console. I bought the Wii, not because it was gimmicky, but because I like Nintendo games. But after seeing how poorly made Mario Party 8 was (which would benefit greatly from the wii motes), I crossed my fingers that Mario Party 9 would be much better. Except, they never bothered to make it. In fact, I haven’t seen a title since launch that I’d bother playing.

• [snakedart]

  Finally, I can enjoy the blobby, cartoonish forms of Mario, Kirby, Link, and Pikachu in true 1080i, as God intended.

  • [Anonymous]

    1080i? wow.

  • [jerwin]

    You could probably run “Quake 3″ on any video card at 1920X1080, and the frame rates would be absurd. But “Crysis 2″ is much more demanding. It also had prettier graphics. Some might find Crysis’s graphics to be more compelling at 480p than Quake’s 1080p offering.

    Yes, Nintendo does aim many of its games towards kids. Beefier graphics hardware will allow its cute characters to grow fur.

• [Anonymous]

  2nd gen? Try 8th or 8th.

• [Ernunnos]

  Makes me all the more impressed at the amount of entertainment I’ve gotten out of a 6-year-old system. Played a lot of games, watched a lot of DVDs and Netflix movies on that beige box. Spent more on Rock Band peripherals than on the original hardware.

• [Guysmiley]

  One would hope so, the Xbox 360 and PS3 are both very old consoles, 2005 and 2006 respectively.

• [Crackermack]

  And yet all of the titles will only appeal to 8 year old American girls or 21 year old Japanese men…

• [Vogie]

  You wear a projector on your head and bracelets for the controller.

• [grimc]

  I wonder what’s a bigger part of Nintendo’s business, Wii or the DS?

• [shadowfirebird]

  We have a Wii, and I confess I’ve gradually come around to the idea that the Wiimote, however clever a piece of engineering, is a pretty crappy input device.

  It’s by turns not sensitive enough (to different sorts of motion, although I imagine/hope the new dongle-thingy fixes that) and too sensitive (when amplifying slight unsteadiness of my hands into a pointer on the screen).

  So I hope that the new console will be less gimicky. Although, I’m not holding my breath…

• [Jrvis]

  Everyone needs to stop hating on Nintendo. Yes one would hope that a new console would be more powerful than its six year old competitors. Keep in mind, though, it’s not like Nintendo’s PR department is making a big deal of their new console’s technological superiority, it’s Kotaku that’s playing up this rather obvious fact.

  And anyways Nintendo isn’t really about making the best new game system, it’s about making games that are so creative and badass that you don’t care that every other mundane FPS you can play on an Xbox has superior graphics, you’d rather play Nintendo games any day of the week.

  • [watman]

    I have to agree with Jrvis.

    Nintendo has sold more units of less powerful hardware because it looked at the market and found the gaps. It turned a bunch of people who weren’t traditionally gamers into gamers, and how is that a bad thing?

    Stop being so elitist.

• [IronEdithKidd]

  We actually have all three systems. I don’t like the Wii. I love the PS3 and the 360 w/kinect. The problem I’ve always had with Nintendo products is the tight focus on the 8-12 y.o. demographic. Perhaps it’s an artifact of the people I’m friends with, but we all have consoles of some flavor, and I’m not the only one with all three.

  • [Anonymous]

    I’ve got all three too. lol

• [Anonymous]

  The greatest Nintendo console was the SNES… sure, it had some bad games, but it had LOADS OF GAMES. Much like the NES. I can remember picking up terrible titles for both. But some of the greatest games (and franchises!) started on the NES/SNES systems.

  …followed by N64. As much as people ripped on it, it had some nice titles. Mario in 3D? Brilliantly done! Zelda? Amazing! And lots of people liked Smash Bros, even though it wasn’t my thing. Let’s not forget… Goldeneye! Donkey Kong!

  Wii has a niche. I don’t consider it “gaming” like the N64 or SNES were. It’s simply moved beyond that concept. It’s fun, sure. But it’s a different animal.

  I sincerely hope that Nintendo goes back to it’s roots in consoles. Make a console, make some great games. Pump them out like NES/SNES titles were, then let the consumers take the good with the bad.

  If this newest console is another “niche” machine like Wii, I won’t be getting it.

• [Anonymous]

  I’ll buy it, but only if it has a port of Mario kart, a golf game, and some generic lightsaber software. Oh, no I won’t. But my tween- minded gf may be intrigued for a few minutes till her thoughts flutter elsewhere

• [Plob218]

  If Mario Galaxy (1 & 2), Mario Kart Wii, Twilight Princess, and Metroid Prime: Corruption are only for 8-year-olds, then I guess I’m 8. Keep your “grown-up” Calls of Duty, I’ll go where the fun is.

• [adonai]

  If you go to the original article that Kotaku sources, you’ll see that the “multiple sources” are conflicted as to whether it’s more powerful than the Xbox360/PS3 or merely comparable.

  But that’s Kotaku for you, the video game equivalent of the Daily Mail.

• [Anonymous]

  One would assume so, since xbox360 and ps3 are both about 6 year old gen.2′s.

  Sad to say, typical nintendo. “We’re releasing a console that’s better than a 5 year old console; be excited we didn’t put out a Xii.”

• [dculberson]

  Unpossible! Why, those will only be 6 year old platforms at launch! There’s no way that a more powerful product could be designed, manufactured, and sold after a mere 6 years.