The real issue in console development and this generation is a better example of that than any before is instead of independently designing the best box they can they are only trying to match what their competition is doing and that is a huge mistake. This gen Microsoft knew Sony couldn’t afford to sell the ps4 at a loss and they also knew from their own research what hardware could go into a $4-500 box so they spec’d out that exact thing and built it when we all know Microsoft could have continued with the razor and blade model, sold the box at a loss at launch and could have from a spec standpoint absolutely blown Sony out of the water.

Microsoft was hedging their bets and assuming Sony would only get yields of 4 gigs of gddr4 instead of 8 and had that been the case the Xbox one even with its lower power GPU would have won the graphics race hands down this generation.

Hopefully Nintendo doesn’t make those same mistakes on top of the usual set of mistakes Nintendo always seems to make. One thing that will be interesting to see of of they pull another wiiu and launch before everyone else by a couple years BUT this time instead of matching power with the consoles already out like wiiu did they go and blow them out of the water which really would be quite simple