Paco wrote:
What's wrong with the Wii U being an upgraded Wii if the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 were the same to their predecessors?
They weren't, actually, at least not in the capacity the wii was to the gamecube.
The Wii was practically and basically an upgraded gamecube, which was pretty much the only reason it featured complete backwards compatibility (excluding, naturally, some physical things like the Game Boy Player). Sure, the 360 could still play plenty of original XBox games, but only through sheer processing power. It was sufficiently more powerful than its predecessor that it just flat out emulated it; this was why you had to download the 'software' for each game, they had to tweak emulation settings to accommodate each game. Even with this, the games were plagued with glitches.
Same with PS3, except Sony decided halfway through they couldn't be assed to keep it going. The reason PSX games ran was because a single emulator could definitely handle such simple games.
Same with the DS, it bodaciously had a Gameboy Advance inside it. GBA had a Gameboy somewhere in it. It was the reason we got such perfect backwards compatibility.
The Wii U being an upgraded Wii (if it actually is, are we sure about this on a hardware scale?) is a great thing, because it ensures we'll be able to play Wii games perfectly on it.
Whoops I missed the general point of this discussion and went in the wrong direction
On what was actually being disgcussed, what's wrong with the Wii U being... a console with a cool controller and good graphics?
You could stick any system into that and it works.
"Back to the topic at hand, I wonder what Nintendo will do with the SNES? I mean, to me, it's more like an upgraded NES. Better graphics, new controller, that's all I see."