@Iceman_Nightmare

There will be a lack of third-party support regardless of power. The reason they didn't care about making a powerful system is because they knew the third parties wouldn't bring their games anyways, because NO ONE BUYS THEM.

And I'm sure the console will die, but not before 5 good years on the market and an armada of great games to play

The Wii U is just as powerful, if not more powerful than, PS3/360.

That said, this is NOT a screenshot. It's fake.

Sweet screenshot now thats what Nintendo should've aimed for. I'm all for nostalgia but to purposely downgrade your game (StarFox zero) is mind boggling ;)

@Kingthrash360

GC underpowered? lmao

The site is pathetic, they really just made a story off of a single, fan-created, picture of a game? How pointless is this? This is spam

@KingThrash uhhhh I think you're confused? Gamecube was the strongest system that gen...

Not good enough for what Wii U can handle. If you disagree you never owned Need For Speed or AC3 or 4 on Wii U.

Shame on Nintendo for that N64 trash they showed at e3.

@jholden3249 a lot of people seem to repeat the same line of argumentsyou do:

1 - There is no point in Nintendo making a powerful console (the first Wii did great!!) they just need the right gimmick...

2 - Third parties just hate Nintendo and will never do business with them because reasons...

Responses:
1 - Strong(ish) hardware would bring in third parties , this is a Nintendo console, many will at the very least test the waters if there is a bit install base, especially if it proves able to attract some "core" gamers... which comes with the strong hardware!

2 - See the first response, it all goes in together, third parties did release games early on the Wii U, even some "AAA" ports, however because the hardware is shitty it performed worse than the old consoles... this discouraged me and many from buying Nintendo hardware, nobody wanted worse versions of existing games + a new Mario game...

What happened is pretty clear, this is not a conspiracy against Nintendo, the Wii U is just a badly designed system.

Are you saying the Star Fox with Bayonetta 2 visuals doesn't look any better than what they showed this E3?

Bayonetta 2 Star Fox easter egg: http://i.imgur.com/960TBvt....

The problem is that Zero doesn't even look as good as a PS3 or 360 game.

If you honestly think that's what rough graphics look like, Blast, then you've never owned a PS2, let alone some of the worst Gamecube games.

The graphics issue for SFZ is being blown up into a bigger issue than it actually is.
That's a fact.
It's not so horrible that it deserves to be dismissed for it's graphics alone.
Yet that's precisely what people here are doing.
If that's not being a bunch of sparkle-worshipping graphics whores, nothing is.

Being honest I'm interested in the game and if the gameplay is as good as the other Star Fox games I'm all in but I'm convinced that they can do better with the looks (Nintendo said it was on purpose so the Wii U can definitely do better). The Star Fox series, since its foundation, was a graphical showpiece of non stop action, it introduced 3d gaming done right on the SNES thanks to Argonaut's SFX chip, Star Fox 64 was also a showcase for the N64, featuring prominently in promotions (remember the tapes XD), plus it introduced a new hardware feature like Rumble and had something that Nintendo games usually lack... awesome voice acting (the 3Ds remaster messed with these, is still a good version nonetheless). The new game should have a cutting edge feel to give the franchise justice, even so I have no doubt the gameplay will be top notch, Do a barrel roll!

@wonderfulmonkeyman

Obviously the game doesn't push polys like the bigger AAA games out there, but I think the real problem is how bland it's art style is. It is literally like they took the N64 game and re-textured it. Not every game has to be another Uncharted, but I don't find it ridiculous at all for people to expect new games to look more interesting (poly count aside) than games that came out nearly 20 years ago.

@monkey

All I've gotten from your posts is you hate 12 year old girls who like Twilight.

Being a Nintendo wanker fanboy is fine but to be a blind wanker fanboy who wanks sparkly sheep is just too over the top. And back to the subject, Starfox is the most laughably ugly PS1 looking game I've ever seen.