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Publishers ‘Seem More Excited for PS4/Next Xbox Than Wii U’

Sterne Agee’s Arvind Bhatia has been questioning publishers on the E3 show floor to find out what they are most excited for. The majority that Bhatia questioned were more excited about the potential of the next Xbox and the PlayStation 4, than they are about Nintendo’s next console, Wii U.

“Publishers [are] excited about PS4 and Xbox 720. Publishers seem to be a lot more excited about the potential for the next consoles from Microsoft and Sony than they are about Nintendo Wii U.”

167 thoughts on “Publishers ‘Seem More Excited for PS4/Next Xbox Than Wii U’”

  1. I haven’t seen any evidence of that personally but obviously neither of those have been announced publicly so we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to…

    1. Yeah, for all we know the PS4 might be weaker than the Wii U and the 720 might run Wii-like graphics and focus more on family friendly games

      1. Atleast this persons smart . XD lol yeah its possible . The graphics wouldnt look much different anyway

        1. Yes they would. We already know they’re willing to charge more than Nintendo, if they know what Nintendo is offering how could and why would they possibly not have better graphics, and other specs

          1. Just so you know, you can’t get better graphics. The max resolution for tvs is 1080p. Nintendo already confirmed that the Wii U supports 1080p. One other thing to note is most people have tvs that only support 720p or 1080i, not 1080p.

            1. So if I bump the Wii resolution output to 1080p, it’ll look as good as a high end pc?!!!!!!

              no way, gotta try this out man!

              seriously resolution has nothing to do with how 3D graphics look.

      2. I can’t tell if you’re being serious or sarcastic… I hope it’s the latter. Because you don’t really believe what you just said, do you ?

        1. Trust me, they’re stupid enough to believe that. :P

          Sony/MS isn’t Nintendo, they’re going to do superpowered machines that can run Unreal Engine 4 and play Star Wars 1313 at max settings.

          1. You don’t know that. Sony lost more on the PS3 than they made on the PS2. Sony has a lot of financial problems right now and they can’t afford to make another “superpowered machine.” Expect the next consoles to be slightly more powerful than the Wii U.

            1. Always the Sony lost money excuse, but yet once again, this was as a company on the whole, not just their gaming divisions. You fuckin’ idiots.

              Jesus Christ, people research your SHIT, lol.

              Slightly more powerful than 2008 tech? Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Then you’ll be proven utterly wrong next year and have your foot in your mouth. :)

              1. Actually it’s 2009/2010 tech but that’s besides the point. Sony has lost a lot of money and only began to make a profit off of the PS3 in recent years AND the PS3 is their lowest selling system so far because of how expensive they made it. Why would Sony make another “super powerful” system? To lose more money? Every company, no matter how rich, has to make money.

      1. Because sales mean everything to gamers…ohwait it doesn’t. And both competing current gen consoles have the better lineup of games than the Wii did. Fact.

            1. I’m giving a sht right now just to tell you:

              good sells = good future games, and is true story just see 20 fps at xbox/ps3

              variated games at wii… ok? :P

              :P

              feed me please

    1. Agree, all fans (including me) will buy the wiiU and i’ve been reading posts on many many many!!! Game sites and non fans want to buy it. they ask for 2 more games besides zonbi U and lego, to make it worth

      Please nintendo tokio games show!!! Drop the A-bomb

        1. No, he happens to be a smart gamer that doesn’t swallow everything Nintendo does down his throat and mindlessly defend them as if they’re even remotely relevant anymore.

          Nintendo consoles haven’t actually been relevant since probably the N64, come to think of it.

          1. Sickr please Banne, Maker and Aeolus, because they are being annoying, and can’t read what site this is. they are retards!

          2. You know i’m pretty sure that being the best selling console of this generation makes you relevant.

          3. They haven’t been relevant since the N64? Having the highest selling system this gen and always having the highest selling handheld doesn’t make them relevant? The fact that they helped to kick-start the motion revolution doesn’t make them relevant? Are you shitting me? The reason why we’re all defending Nintendo is because of trolls like you who waste their time trying to convince Nintendo fans about how Nintendo is garbage, no shit we’re going to defend it. It’s a Nintendo site dumbass, you should’ve expected Nintendo fans.

  2. That’s their opinion and it’s fine and acceptable, but what I want to know is why thy are more excited? Like what do the next consoles offer? They probably won’t come out until 2015 or something anyway. I think after the Wii U, which even though I’m getting one definitely I don’t think will sell terribly great, Nintendo ought to take like an 8 year break like the other 2 do so that they are in line with them technologically.

    1. Nintendo does need to take a break, but at the same time i don’t think they do. I think they are right on with the technology for now, Microsoft and Sony are keeping their eye on the 3D TV market that is probably why they are waiting on their new systems.

      1. and frankly I’m never buying a 3dtv until its glasses less and doesn’t give me head aches… at least 3ds is small enough that the headache effects are minimal.

        1. and wiiU has good graphics.and its not about this @LP.its about something that it will be a shock for every nintendo fan or a gamer

      1. it will be verry bad and i meen it…i cried for real this time today when i ve heard that even i am a ”teenager” of high school :(

  3. I question these publishers. I’m betting they don’t believe the Wii U is next-gen. They probably only look forward to better graphics and standard controller input for the PS4/Next Xbox. I bet Wii U will be the only next-gen console to boast a unique controller while the other next-gen consoles will only have better graphics.

    1. And not even by a noticeable degree. Nintendo has set it’s self up for that to happen with the Wii-U

        1. It’s accounted for the minimal graphical leap the other companies will likely take since the next great leap is still a bit away.

    1. Ahahaha! No one. thats why we haven’t gotten ANY details what so ever about any dev. interested!!

  4. Publishers want something easy. Having immagination for finding new gameplay with Wii U’s GamePad is too hard for them. That’s why.

  5. I’m sure Nintendo and the Wii U is going to be outstanding when it’s released, with a lot of surprises and great games.
    I just have no idea what they were thinking with their performance this E3. They could have “wowed” everybody to get on board. It seems every press conference/ show they’ve had was pointless, only showing games that everyone knew about already. No surprises here and there. The only thing was Tuesday morning’s show and that went from awesome to lame in such a short amount of time.
    let’s hope for a nice surprise before this whole thing is over.

  6. that makes sense kind of because nintendo’s console is pretty much already known to the world while microsony have yet to give any concrete info on theirs. plus you know they’re going to study the wiiu and try to outdo nintendo’s beast.

  7. Of course they do. The Wii U is using old tech. Once the PS4 and next Xbox comes out, it, like the wii this gen, won’t be able to compete.

    1. Wtf ? Ur wrong because epic said it doesnt have a stradegy for consoles yet . Wii u will run the new enigines

    2. Yep. This years Nintendo E3 press conference has absolutely left Wii U dead to me. No strong 1st party titles. No strong 3rd party support. The tablet will be nothing more than another gimmick. Was promised 1080p and we’re getting 720p @ 30fps. Pathetic stuff out of Nintendo right now. I am disappoint.

      1. What does it matter if the games look great anyway and they do run at 60 fps unless your using 2 wii u gamepads putting pressure on the proccessor . Get ur facts straight

      2. Marios a killer app and also imagine 4 player online coop! Pikmin looked grwat and nintendo land looked fresh and unique . Also mass effect assassins creed darksiders all ea sports games a revamped batman arkham city zombie u rayman legend etc were shown for third party .

      3. Dude chill i understand you and i agree with you. But the problem with the world now a days is that people tend to forget the past. Do you remember the graphics from the ps3 and xbox360 games at launch??? Or the launch games!! Xbox had like 10 sports games gears and kameo. Ps3 had like MG.
        The internet is the biggest place for
        Spoilers, i mean we knew all the games from e3 weeks before thanks to game sites like this (great site by the way n_n) so thats why the excitement was that low. so the relax we hava 6 more months for more news.
        If you want to understand more search in youtube for a video of the ps3 graphics at launch, they showed a fucking ugly video and people laugh!!! But look graphics now! Graphics are decided by the engine.

      4. Don’t forget it can run without using the screen controller too. That’ll probably leave it plenty of processing power to go 1080p. I’m sure they also are just using this time now to break in the system. Later games will easily be native 1080p, I’m sure. Games look better as the system ages. Besides, having enough power to stream 3 hd asymmetric screens at the same time is amazing. Plus, third party support will suck early on. They wanna make a profit, so they will wait until the system has an install base first. The fact that it has this much in the launch window is amazing. Once the other systems are out, this one will already have a huge install base and it’ll be the main next gen console with all the third party support. That’ll probably balance out after a year or 2, but still, Nintendo has the advantage here. If you wait, you’ll see just how great this will be

    3. I think developers would actually prefer to develop for the Wii U by that time. Not every game company can afford to have the graphics of a high-end PC

  8. It’s not there opinion…im on the wiiu bandwagon and will def be getting it at launch but the reason why publishers/developers are excited about Sony/Microsoft is because some are building new engines for next gen that will most likely not run on wiiu…like the new unreal engine and square enixs new engine.

    1. I think Unreal Engine 3.5 could run on the Wii U and square’s new engine MIGHT run on the system but who knows.

      The way Microsoft is looking up to be it seems like they may need to make their console more cheaper than the xbox 360.

  9. They could be thinking anything about it and what the possibilities are thats why . Of course they are interested because wii u is out and they know what its about and people are dreaming of graphics better than wii u which will not happen

    1. The graphics may slightly outdo the Wii u, just cause they’ll be a little more modern, but people are expecting modern gaming pc graphics and there’s no way that’ll ever happen. That’d make a nearly thousand dollar system that people wouldn’t buy and companies wouldn’t produce for, cause it’d just be too expensive. So it’ll all be basically the same. A flat line of specs and stuff, but the newest engines will definitely be in the next Xbox and ps. But Sony needs to start making a profit before they can make a new system, so they need to own this year. Good luck to them. They need it more than Nintendo, trust me

  10. How do we know the next gen consoles aren’t going to be the same as the Wii U?

    For all we know the 720 or the PS4 might be weaker than the Wii U

      1. So you are saying that the Gamecube was weaker than the PS2?

        Because Nintendo was always either 2nd or 1st place when it came to high end graphics until the Wii, so it could be possible that Sony might do the same with their PS4 and just cut the costs by making it only 4% weaker than the Wii U.

        Microsoft’s Xbox Next is just going to be a toaster oven and it will break on first use

        1. Do you honestly think that would happen? I mean, ask yourself honestly: “Do I think that Sony will sell a console that is 4% weaker than the Wii U?” The PS3 is roughly 3x a Wii. The Vita is roughly 2x a 3DS. I’m not talking about games or the overall value of a system. I’m strictly speaking in terms of hardware prowess. Nintendo is doing what they have done in recent years. Sell cheap hardware – and try to make up for it with imaginative software. The only flaw here is that the imagination factor is running out. We’re getting more gimmicks and tech demos. We aren’t getting artful masterpieces like we did in the Gamecube days. Trust me, I fucking LOVED my Gamecube.

          1. by “in recent years” do you just mean the wii? because that is the first time nintendo hsa ever pushed out a console that wasn’t as powerful as the competition.

            1. Powerful didn’t mean a thing when their consoles were crippled in other key areas.

              Gamecube had shitty mini-discs that barely held data and N64 stuck with clunky cartridges. Amongst other things.

              1. the mini discs held about the same amount of memory as the discs for the xbox and playstation 2. and the n64 had cartridges because thats what they did. the playstation was the first console to ever have cd’s (excluding the cd-i ofcourse) seriously, the wii was the first console they ever had that wasn’t as powerful as the competition.

  11. Not sure why Nintendo did the same thing with Wii U it did with Wii, using the old tech. Seems silly to try same strategy when they clearly need to address concerns of hardcore gamers. I will get Wii U and I bet it will be great, but the Unreal 4 trailers and the other Square trailer look insane

    1. The tech isnt that old for a console PLUS tech specs havnt even been confirmed so unless developers release specs noone can say it has old tech i heard it runs off 2010/ late 2009 tech which is great

      1. 2009 hardware is -not- great, lol. Actually 2008 since the GPU is rumored to be R700 series after all.

        Don’t know what you’re smoking, but the advancements made up until now are far better. Thus, it is old tech.

    1. Sony can’t do that off of a fourth year big loss. They’re gonna have maybe a $500 system. No more than that. Xbox, well that’s another story. You’re gonna be basically buying 2 at once with kinect 2.0, so yeah, that price sounds about right. I’d even buy a Wii u for $350 or maybe $400. So I think this is good. This is a console, not a gaming pc. I’ll take the 300 purchase and be happily on my way

    2. Your opinion is still an incredibly stupid one until you can detail precisely why those consoles would cost that much.

      And chances are you won’t, since you don’t know shit about tech to begin with if those are what you’re estimating.

      I can build a budget PC for $400 that can run all modern games at high to max settings, I’d imagine a company which gets the components cheaper can actually do far better for barely over that price especially when they probably won’t be including mandatory gimmicks into the equation.

      1. No I agree w/ him but the PS4/720 have yet to be announced so it’s hard not to let your imagination run w/ excitement about something we known almost nothing about.

      1. Tonight at 1am EST, Epic will finally unveil it. And these questions will be answered.

        Better pray to your Nintendo gods that it can run it.

  12. ALL RIGHT ITS TIME TO SAY A FEW WORDS WITH EVERYONE WHO IS INTERESTING WITH THE WIIU!
    LISTENT UP I AM NOT TROLLING AND IT WILL BE TOO STRONG FOR ALL OF US.NINTENDO WIIU IS 50% MORE POWERFULL AND I AM NOT SURE OF THAT ANYWAY.I WANT TO SAY THAT 50% MEENS THAT THE WIIU IS A HALF NEW GEN CONSOLE.IN NORMAL CODITIONS REAL GEN CONSOLES MUST AND I MEEN IT.THEY MUST BE 100% MORE POWERFULL THAN THE PREVIUSLY GEN CONSOLES.THATS WHY PUBLISHERS ARE MORE INTERESTED FOR THE OTHER CONSOLES.NINTENDO MADE A BIG MISTAKE.JUST LIKE THE WII.THEY ADDED GAMECUBE GRAPHICS AND NEW CONTROLLERS.AND NOW SAME IS HAPENING WITH THE WIIU..IT WILL BE A PS3 WITH A NEW CONTROLLER.THE PS4 AND 720 WILL BE REAL NEXT GEN CONSOLES WITH BETTER GRAPHICS AND POWER.

    NINTENDO IS BEHIND.I WISH WE COULD DO SOMETHING AND HELP THEM.BUT THEY WILL LISTEN OR CARE? OR THEY WILL CONTINU TO MAKE WEAK CONSOLES.GAMECUBE AND 64 WERE POWERFULL AND IN THEIR CURRENT GEN SAME AS SNES.NOW NINTENDO HAS DISSAPOINTED ME.thats all.nintendo is behind and i wish they could do the wiiu more powerfull.( a real next generation console).I ve heard rumours a few hours ago FRO GAMERS that nintendo might become a third party developers just like SEGA and I WILL SICK TO SEE ZELDA ON THE XBOX!

    1. sikcr that comment^ is 100% true and nintendo is fooling us now with the wiiU.if u dont know then ask a gamer.u must see that wiiU will be the same as the wii with same graphics as the ps3 and a new controller.

          1. its the real world.open ur eyes.dont buy a weak console.we must warn nintendo that the wiiU doesnt have the next gen power and graphics.

              1. Did you just compare a ps3 and Xbox to a gaming pc. You’re a moron, straight up. PCs will always outperform consoles and make them look ancient in comparison. Consoles are all the cheap and easy way, even in the case of Sony and Microsoft. For someone obsessed with real life, you sure don’t seem to be living in it

                1. Actually, during their release the two consoles were on par with PCs for a fair amount of time before being 1-up’d by newer series of graphics.

                  Who’s to say they can’t do that again

    2. zelda will NEVER be on anything other than a nintendo console. IF nintendo does become a third party, dont make LoZ games.

    3. U dont know shit. Ur arguments are based off of rumors . And have you seen pikmin 3 ? Far superior graphics to any current gen game

      1. not too mutch supirior! wiiU should be 100% more powerfull than ps3 and 360 to be a real gen console.i am not a graphic fanboy but playing the wiiU is like playing a ps3 with the same contoller.i am not fool enough.thats it.i will become a gamer and except for microsoft xbox.that time i will give up on my fanboyism.LEARN WHAT IS A REAL GEN CONSOLE.I AM NOT HERE TO TROLL,I AM HERE TO INFORM U AND THINK SOMETHING IF ITS A SOLUTION FOR THIS PROBLEM!

          1. 50% on paper, but it has superior architecture and modern gaming engines, so it’ll blow those old systems into the past once it picks up and has a steady flow of games coming in

  13. Sure the next console will be powerful. But thats not everything. Nintendo has character. What happened to the days when gaming was about content rather than graphics?

  14. ALL WII U NEEDS IS UNREAL ENGINE 4!!!
    COME ON NINTENDO!!!
    ANYONE KNOW IF IT WILL SUPPORT IT? AND IF THERES IS A CHANCE OF IT HAPPENING?

    1. Dont trust him he says stuff based off of nothing concrete. Im sure it will run it since nintendo is working with epic games

  15. All nintendo needs to do is announce a zelda or first party game developers and investors will be crawling back to nintendo

  16. Just what we need. More biasedness from developers when it comes to Nintendo’s products. Ugh.

    Besides, we don’t know a single thing about either PS4 or Xbox 720 yet.

    1. You pretty much summed up why they are excited with your last statement. The mystery about them and what they plan to bring for the True Next Gen™ that the Wii U clearly isn’t doing is why people are excited for those.

  17. ok i find this artical funny because we all know sony is going with the 1994 ps1 controller with dual shock toutch and microsoft might use only button less control methods there best bet gamecube xbox and ps2 all over again

  18. I can understand why the publishers can ‘seem interested’ as many have said, it’s probably because now we’ve seen the Wii U (if the console – not the Game Pad – is indeed the final version [I know that it’s been said that it is, but anything can happen between now & the release] – I know it may be wishful thinking lol).

    In all honestly, even though the Wii U has been shown worldwide now and I’m sure that there will be arguments against what I say, but there are two sides to the story of a new release, whether it be a home or portable console. It’s been proven with the 3DS & the Vita that you can’t have it both ways. The Vita was released with quite a few strong games but are now struggling with the lack of games and with the 3DS, Nintendo announced quite a few games games that they were planning from the console in the long run, there were complaints about that too, if I remember correctly (most were about the price, sure, but I’m focusing more on the games here). Nintendo probably learnt from that mistake & only decided to announce games that they say should be out on launch or the following three/four months. Publishers & gamers alike cannot have it two ways, as I said before – I’m sure I’ve missed out mention some stuff, but I’ve said enough lol

    I say give it time, in the long run, I think it will work out.

  19. We don’t know anything about the PlayStation 4 or Xbox 8/720 yet. Besides, the Xbox 8 might focus on casual gamers and the Playstation 4 was confirmed to not be much of an upgrade from the PS3. Thus, there should be little to no excitement for the PS4 and for the Xbox 8, who knows? Maybe it’ll be like the Wii and try to gain the Wii’s audience.

  20. They’re only saying this because Nintendo’s conference was so bad. Obviously they’re not literally interested in the PS4/720 consoles, but when you’re faced with an underwhelming conference like Nintendo’s, suddenly every other alternative, even the imaginary kind, seems like the best idea in the world.

  21. even they release it is not gonna sell well because they’re gonna be too expensive and everybody is waiting for a price drop.

    1. Nintendo said they’re not doing that again. The price drop was a 3ds only thing. They plan to price the Wii u where it can stay for probably around 2 years like the Wii was

  22. They should be excited for the Wii U right now, because they can port games that they currently have in development. That way, they can work with stronger system specs and capture the Nintendo audience as well.
    Sony and Microsoft claim they don’t plan on next systems anytime soon. Perhaps in the end, Nintendo is willing to put their asses on the line to enhance the gaming experience, while other developers are so worried about development costs. Their the McDonalds of gaming. Thank goodness for Ubisoft, I’m really happy about their initiative.

    1. It seems that after Nintendo does something innovative, Sony and Microsoft have to get off their butts and copy it. Nintendo Wii -> Playstation Move. Nintendo Wii U -> Microsoft SmartGlass. Developers should be excited for the Wii U; it’s the only new console for another year or two, and it really changes how you play the game. I don’t understand why they care about something that hasn’t even been announced. The Orbis and Durango are going to be great, I’m sure, but how powerful can a console get before its too expensive? Sony has said that they’re not first, but the best. They agreed that it wont be cheap. It’s going to be powerful, and amazing, but the only improvements are internal, and cosmetic. They don’t really change gameplay. The Playstation controller has stayed almost exactly the same since the very beginning, an the Xbox controller is the same, too. Nintendo, on the other hand, has changed and evolved throughout theirs seven amazing consoles (amazing, except for the virtual boy…)

  23. the publishers will praise ps4 xb720 when they imitate wii u and not give a f*ck about wii u being the first console to use a tablet control. its like saying the song the beatles sang are from justin beiber, besides why cant they see the fact that the controller is an innovation and removes clutter as in u dont need to pause the game and go to the inventory and use an item or equip and also the map issue, its like the ds/3ds but bigger and better

  24. they are waiting in the land of its better on the other side, with the mantra of I hate Nintendo producing from their mouths. to be honest they don’t know much about what Sony or Xbox has and what has been said by Sony is there is not much of an increase in graphic out put in the next generation console they are producing. so I think what these reporters are saying is more speculation because they like Sony or Microsoft’s consoles and has nothing to do with facts

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  26. It’s pretty much common knowledge that all the three gaming giants (PlayStation, Xbox, and Wii) are looking forward to launching their respective next generation gaming consoles. But I am most excited about the ps4

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