Rumor: Wii U 50% More Powerful Than PS3?
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Well the GPU on it is 3 generations ahead then whats on PS3 so it would hardly be a surprise (GF 7800 vs Radeon 4800).
Both 360 and PS3 barely have any true HD games and are almost the same when it comes to power. Storage media has no impact on games resolutions btw.Donnyp said:
Rumors aren't rumors if they only exist inside your head.
The WiiU is pegged at around 2007 with its GPU. Throw in the lack of a HD, etc. and I wouldn't get my hopes up. But arguing about specs is pointless, it all comes down to what games are developed for it, and as long as Nintendo and its user base keeps shitting on 3rd parties, it'll be stuck with Mario, Zelda and whatever casual shit gets drummed up.
The WiiU is pegged at around 2007 with its GPU. Throw in the lack of a HD, etc. and I wouldn't get my hopes up. But arguing about specs is pointless, it all comes down to what games are developed for it, and as long as Nintendo and its user base keeps shitting on 3rd parties, it'll be stuck with Mario, Zelda and whatever casual shit gets drummed up.
This could be true in the end but don't forget that the Dreamcast followed a lackluster showing by the Saturn while the WiiU is actually the biggest selling console of this generation (yeah, yeah, is it this generation when its running on the previous generation's hardware? yadda yadda blah blah). My point is that it may well do what you said but Nintendo aren't in Sega's position where they needed to come out earlier than their competitors to try and stay in the game.Simalacrum said:
Nintendo have done well and are now comfortable with moving up (or past) the current gen. If anything this could be their Sega Saturn. The system that fades fast once their competitors arrive but not quick enough for them to be concerned.
I couldn't care about specs. As a few people have said, it's all about the games. But for me its also about playability. The controller looks a tad awkward to use, and I'm not a huge touchscreen fan (anymore. Okamiden saw an end to that with it's fickle 'No, no no! That wasn't right on the line! And you aren't pressing hard enough so the line gets broken up!' - 'But I don't want to risk break my scre-' - 'Don't care dammit!' attitude). Guess I'm too used to my touch sensitive Graphics Tablet.
I'm also getting sick of the same old Nintendo faces. Yes, Legend of Zelda is good, but they need to come up with a new series for crying out loud! Same with Mario. Heck, I'm beginning to get annoyed with Pokemon as well. I can't muster the will to keep going with Black and White, and I've been playing since Blue. Well, I'm getting my PC upgraded so between that and my PS3 I'm set for gaming me thinks.
I'm also getting sick of the same old Nintendo faces. Yes, Legend of Zelda is good, but they need to come up with a new series for crying out loud! Same with Mario. Heck, I'm beginning to get annoyed with Pokemon as well. I can't muster the will to keep going with Black and White, and I've been playing since Blue. Well, I'm getting my PC upgraded so between that and my PS3 I'm set for gaming me thinks.
1080p support is not 1080p resolution, I'd only really consider it a jump forward if it actually used 1080p res rather than stetching 1200x760 (roughly) on a 1080p TV/Moniter like all current console do, the fact they advertise 1080p support in the first place is misleading.Andrew86 said:
Of course if some awesome exclusives come out I couldn't really care less
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OT: Nintendo could probably make a console much, much more powerful than the PS3. Would it be cost effective? Unlikely. But this is a rather lackluster upgrade, and it's possible Nintendo will pay for it.
I just don't see it doing well casual gamers bought most of the wii's they don't care about hd or the console being powerful or they wouldn't have bought the wii wheres the drive for them to plop down the lets go cheap with 400 on the wii u when it offers nothing new for them, hardcore gamers have mostly moved on and as stated by many here aren't going to be impressed that your beating a 5 year old system and even by 50% that a relatively small amount. I don't see there being much of a market for the wii u regardless of actual performance casual gamers don't care, hardcore gamers aren't impressed and in a few years we'll be seeing the next gen playstation and xbox that will make the wii u look like the wii. Nintendo took a big risk going this route and I don't think its going to pay off.
Fair enough, but lets not judge about that before the console is released shall we? We're halfway through 2011, this console is due to somewhere in 2012, my guess is the holiday season. It'll be a long while before we see what developers are going to do with the available horsepower. I just hope it's easy to develop for, not PS3-like.GrimHeaper said:
Could be, I sure hope not. The Wiki article says, and according to the Nintendo website, this is the CPU:mad825 said:
That's sadly all we know. Honestly, I don't understand why they're waiting so long to release technical details.
Sort of, kind of. It probably has more to do with the economics of making a console, ie if they wait and don't make a final decision then IBM may come up with a better offer. So either a CPU with better performance for the same price or the one they're currently looking at but at a reduced price.GrimHeaper said:
Nintendo is very savvy about making sure that they don't lose anywhere near as much money as their competitors per console sold. I think they're going with the same tactic again because it has served them quite well in the past.
Didn't they? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_HD_DVD_Player]RhombusHatesYou said:
Still, though, they did discontinue it two years after the fact, once the format died off. I can't really blame them for thinking the idea stood a good chance, given that the porn industry had initially adopted HD-DVD as their medium of choice, and they tend to pick themselves the winners. We don't really need to get into that, but it typically revolves around cost and access.
On the other hand, I know you were referring to the core unit's processor, but even if that had been the case, the laser didn't support it, hence their development of an external drive.
OT: It really doesn't matter if WiiU is a monolithic powerhouse that even the next Sony/Microsoft gen can't compare to, or is just a Wii refitted with controllers, Nintendo's success comes from their ability to target such a wide breadth of the market.
That being said, if they release another console gen that revolves around a gimmick and continue to treat third-party developers/publishers as they've been in the past decade, they're going to sink off the console market forever. Barring some sort of divine intervention, though, no one's ever going to pry their claws off the handheld market, though, so it's likely that dropping off the console radar would be a wash for them.
Actually the Wii-U will have 50% more power than the CURRENT PlayStation. So that's not saying much when we get new gen Xbox's and PlayStation.
Let that be lesson to everyone... don't copy and paste stuff around when re-writing parts of a post. Will I go back and edit it though? Nah.pyrrhic victory said:
Regardless if the Wii U turns out to smash more hardware barriers than the 360 and PS3 combined and offers players everything functionality-wise from the PC to a home theater system and ushers in a new order of world peace, playing Zelda, Super Mario and Metroid in Hi-definition ain't going to move me from my PC throne.