Uncharted Creators Unimpressed by Wii U
Posted on July 15 2011 by Nathanial Rumphol-Janc
Naughty Dog, the game development team behind the ‘Uncharted” franchise isn’t moved by Nintendo’s recent unveiling of the Wii U. In a new interview related to upcoming release of Uncharted 3, game director Justin Richmond spoke his mind about Nintendo’s new console. While he thinks the idea of the Wii U is cool, he doesn’t think, in comparison to the PS3 and Vita, that it’s anything special.
 
Obviously you won’t develop for Wii U, but I want to get your thoughts on the hardware. Does the console spark your imagination in any way? 
JR: To be honest with you, the idea of it is very, very cool. But there’s nothing that the Wii U has that the Vita and PS3 doesn’t. You know, it’s an interesting piece of technology, and I’m interested to see how people use it. 
I’m not completely sold yet. That the screen isn’t multi-touch, that’s a little weird. It seems there are some very strange holes in it, but to be fair, last time I was sceptical of the original Wii, and look at how that did. I’m sure that he games they make for Wii U will be amazing.
 
First off, Naughty Dog is Sony-owned. We’re never going to be able to play their software on our Nintendo hardware. Secondly, while most Wii U comments by game developers have been incredibly positive, the only nay-sayers have been Sony. It isn’t a shocker for a Sony owned company to say they’re unimpressed by the Wii U.
 
Richmond is keeping an open mind about the Wii U. He did say he was interested in seeing how it’ll be used, but since he won’t have the chance to develop games for it, he isn’t as enthusiastic as companies such as Ubisoft are. Naughty Dog wouldn’t have been a company to have been sent a development kit, and while Richmond, as an industry insider, may know more than we do about the Wii U, he may just as well know only what has been presented to the public thus far.
 
Whatever the case may be, I don’t agree with his comments about the PS3 and Vita. We already know that the Wii U is more powerful system than the PS3. It could very well do much more than the PS3. Additionally, Sony hardware is expensive. The Wii U is going to be priced as low as Nintendo can afford to lower it. Thinking back to when Sony first announced the original price tag for the PS3, I shudder to think what price a console of theirs would be if they were to release one within the same launch window as the Wii U. At the same time, Sony has learned from that original mistake, and they did lower the cost of the Vita to match the 3DS selling price. And while we’ve heard good things about the Wii U, we really don’t know that much about it.
 
What do you readers think? After the Wii U comes out next year, how do you think it will sit next to the PS3?
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