Logging onto Twitter this morning after final evening’s PlayStation Showcase, you would possibly count on to see trending matters from the likes of Sony, Spider-Man and Alan Wake. But what did we discover earlier than any of those? ‘Splatoon’ and ‘Wii U’.
The former is in reference to Foamstars — Square Enix’s new turf battle shooter that appears greater than somewhat like Nintendo’s squid swimmer — however the latter has come on account of the currently-titled ‘Project Q’, a handheld machine that allows you to stream video games put in in your PS5 over WiFi. It’s like a Switch… solely it is not.
Yes, whereas the brand new little bit of package would possibly appear to be a Switch display with a few PS5 controllers Ultrahand-ed onto the aspect (brilliantly demonstrated by @spookysquid beneath), the truth that it doesn’t play its personal video games and as a substitute will solely stream content material from the PS5 has this machine leaning a lot additional into the Wii U camp than we might have anticipated.
It’s additionally price making an allowance for that that is an accent, not a brand new console in and of itself — we’re already braced to see the excessive price ticket that may inevitably come quickly. At least Nintendo had the dignity to throw the Gamepad in with any buy of the Wii U, we imply come on.
Of course, with the Wii U matter trending on Twitter, we weren’t the primary to note this. Many have identified the comparability and it seems like it’s time to give Nintendo’s least-loved console (of late, that’s) an apology.
Given the Wii U’s less-than-stellar reception, we might guess that seeing these comparisons wasn’t the precise response that Sony was in search of following final evening’s reveal. Who is aware of, perhaps the completed product will look an entire lot totally different (it actually is wanting somewhat fan-made in our opinion in the mean time), but when this machine actually is just for streaming video games from the primary console, then the cheaper choice would possibly simply be to play Splatoon in your Wii U as a substitute…
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