Reggie: Third-party games such as Call of Duty “look dramatically better” on Wii U

Speaking in an interview with CNN, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime proclaimed that “third-party games like Call of Duty look dramatically better on our system.”

Reggie was asked about the specs of Wii U, keeping in mind that Sony and Microsoft will likely release new consoles with higher specs in a year or so. To this, Reggie said: “The specs are quite different from our competitor systems.”

Here’s the response in full:

“Well first off, I have to correct you. The specs are quite different than the competitor systems. Much more graphically intensive. If you do a side-by-side comparison, you would actually see that third-party games like Call of Duty look dramatically better on our system. And then in terms of what competition’s going to do in the future, we’ll see. We know that based on our own development, this two-screen gaming experience really is the next innovation that consumers are gravitating to. It’s selling extremely well here in the Americas. Already stocks are quite low in the marketplace, we’re rapidly replenishing. And so for us, certainly consumers are deciding that the innovation is well worth their investment.”

When it comes to games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops II, an analysis done by Digital Foundry states that the Wii U game “matches the look of the Xbox 360 game and thus gives it an edge visually over the PlayStation 3 release, but unfortunately it comes up well short in terms of performance”. The publication specifically cited a poor frame rate with the Wii U version.