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Straight Right about if Wii U is next-gen, faith it will find its audience
This comes from a Digitally Downloaded interview with Straight Right's CEO Tom Crago...
Digitally Downloaded: How versatile do you believe the Wii U to be as a next-gen platform?
Tom Crago: Well it is a next-gen platform, in that it's the next generation of hardware from Nintendo. Will the successors to the PS3 and 360 be more powerful? Almost certainly. And for many people that's what it's all about. But over the years Nintendo have shown that raw processing and graphics power aren't everything. And I think a lot of gamers are starting to see that too.
Digitally Downloaded: We hear you have some pretty big things planned for the Wii U coming to us. So, it's safe to say you're predicting some positive reception in the console's first year of release?
Tom Crago: We very much hope so. We've put a lot of eggs in that basket so we're very invested in its success. We've seen enough of it to have faith that it will find an audience, and we hope that happens over the course of the next year. Nintendo themselves have a solid lineup, but as ever it will be down to third party publishers and developers supporting the platform and releasing games that people want to play. The launch line-up looks solid, but the Holiday period in 2013 will be just as crucial as this launch window.
Digitally Downloaded: How versatile do you believe the Wii U to be as a next-gen platform?
Tom Crago: Well it is a next-gen platform, in that it's the next generation of hardware from Nintendo. Will the successors to the PS3 and 360 be more powerful? Almost certainly. And for many people that's what it's all about. But over the years Nintendo have shown that raw processing and graphics power aren't everything. And I think a lot of gamers are starting to see that too.
Digitally Downloaded: We hear you have some pretty big things planned for the Wii U coming to us. So, it's safe to say you're predicting some positive reception in the console's first year of release?
Tom Crago: We very much hope so. We've put a lot of eggs in that basket so we're very invested in its success. We've seen enough of it to have faith that it will find an audience, and we hope that happens over the course of the next year. Nintendo themselves have a solid lineup, but as ever it will be down to third party publishers and developers supporting the platform and releasing games that people want to play. The launch line-up looks solid, but the Holiday period in 2013 will be just as crucial as this launch window.