SkarKrow said:
OT: I do have a Wii U and I must say it's actually a really nice console, it's just a bit pricey since it's not really as powerful as the PS4 or nextbox are gonna be. And it's 1/24 as powerful as modern graphics cards give or take. It's lovely, it feels great to use and play and the Miiverse is lovely, the games that are good are great, it just needs to be a bit cheaper and have a few more games.
It's sad it's not doing well, I think if it came 2 years earlier it'd have done better.
About 1/24th? I dunno... I think you overestimate current PC hardware... But who knows, you may be right.
Ironically, it's about 20-60 times (depending on what level you estimate it's performance to actually be) as a Wii.
(60 times puts it at the upper end estimates of being about 3 times the current consoles).
I guess the one major upside here is that from what we know, the PS4 and the new Xbox are comparatively a lot weaker than the older consoles were.
Where the PS3 is about 20 times as powerful as a Wii, the PS4 is only about 5 times as powerful as a Wii U...
And that matters, because the smaller the gap, the less you have to change to get it to work.
It's actually one of the major hurdles of modern PC development.
Because back in 1995 or so, the gap between 'low end' and 'high end' PC's was one being about 10x faster than the other.
But nowadays, the gap is one being closer to 100x faster than the other.
You can see how that would make a developer's life a lot harder...