[quote name='Corvin']Last gen was "good enough" for many people. Especially those in the xbox camp since they were technically the most powerful, had HD, 5.1, broadband and a built in hard drive. Then demo kiosks hit with CoD2, and you suddenly realize, "oh, wait a minute, it does get better."[/QUOTE]
As someone who was on the previous generation until last year (when I bought a Wii), while there were a select amount of games I wanted to play, I didn't have an intense desire to upgrade for more graphics power. Really, the main thing that drove it was lack of new games for the old consoles.
[quote name='dothog']I don't see why people defend the presentation. If you watch it after the fact -- after you've read a press release, article, or two -- of course it's easier to follow. In the moment, it was confusing.
People in CAG chat during the presentation weren't saying things like "oh, they just decided to focus on the peripheral and not the console itself, haha, no biggie." We were saying things like "there's gotta be a console, what is it? show what it looks like FFS" -- those of us not rending our garments, rubbing ourselves in ash, and chanting "this is not life." (winkie!)[/quote]
You know, I followed along on here, since I couldn't watch the presentation live at work and what I got from here and what I got from the presentation was two different things. I could understand maybe being initially confused because they didn't say immediately that it was a new console, but any of us who have been reading the rumors thread would have recognized what they showed as the controller for the new console.
I'll get off Nintendo's jock for this. To me it's the only real takeaway of substance from E3 concerning Nintendo, that it's clear they're still not sure how to present and market the WIIU. They lacked confidence. That's my contribution to this here thread. I'll need to see real specs on the WIIU, with real games, before I pass judgment.
I don't think they lack confidence. I just think things are in an early state and they showed what they had so far. Ubisoft pretty much admitted as much during the 3rd party roundtable. I think you (and many other people on this board) were expecting a console that was closer to the release date. I always thought that holiday 2012 was the target for this console, and the presentation confirms that in my mind. I will expect that they will have a presentation more to your liking next year.