Nintendo har sjældent taget førertrøjen når det gælder den stærkeste hardware, og det ser ikke ud til at komme til at ændre sig med Wii U. Faktisk har Microsofts Phil Spencer nu udtalt i et interview med GamesIndustry, at Wii U effektivt set er en Xbox 360, og han sagtens kan forstå beslutningen:
"I think their Pro Controller makes a lot of sense with the platform they've built. They are building a platform that is effectively a 360 when you think of graphical capability... Now they are really making an on-ramp for the back catalog of games that are on 360. It is easy for those games to move over the Wii U. They've moved the buttons around, and they've made a controller that feels familiar for 360 gamers, so I get why they are putting those pieces together."