Rumor: Wii U CPU Twice as Beefy As Xbox 360
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I see anything Wii related, especially Wii U and I'll I think is "Who cares?". Of course there are people that care, but I certainly don't.
Why are people putting so much focus on it being compared to the 360 or the PS3? It's not like there's anything more recent to compare it to. Cut Nintendo some slack guys, damn.
To me, graphics are not the most important thing in games. I still fire up several N64 games a few times a week because the games are damn fun. And let's be real here, the only way graphics are going to get much better at this point is if they figure out how to actually film real people as the characters and have us controlling movies.
I guess my point is, I don't own a Wii because I found a majority of the games to not be that fun not because of graphical issues. There were a few gems for me but not enough to garner me owning a console for them. Make the games fun. Ultimately that is what will win a "console war" (I feel ridiculous even typing that). It's been like that since, well, ever. The system with better games will survive.
Also, this is one person's ESTIMATION of what the WiiU will be able to do. Stories like this don't do much besides rile people up about something that's not officially been disclosed yet.
To me, graphics are not the most important thing in games. I still fire up several N64 games a few times a week because the games are damn fun. And let's be real here, the only way graphics are going to get much better at this point is if they figure out how to actually film real people as the characters and have us controlling movies.
I guess my point is, I don't own a Wii because I found a majority of the games to not be that fun not because of graphical issues. There were a few gems for me but not enough to garner me owning a console for them. Make the games fun. Ultimately that is what will win a "console war" (I feel ridiculous even typing that). It's been like that since, well, ever. The system with better games will survive.
Also, this is one person's ESTIMATION of what the WiiU will be able to do. Stories like this don't do much besides rile people up about something that's not officially been disclosed yet.
Even if the Wii U ends up more powerful as the PS4, xbox 720, or the latest, most powerful PC, it doesn't alter the fact all we're getting are more Marios, Zeldas, Pokemons, Metriods, Smash Bros, etc, so even caring about how powerful the console is just seems kinda pointless.
I dont care if the wiiu dispences milk and cookies and gives bjs. Unless nintendo can start bringing out games that are good and dont require gimmicks, im just never going to care.
And how much more powerful are modern gaming PCs than any console to ever hit the market?
And how old is the Xbox 360?
Does nintindo still think we're fighting in the bit wars?
And how old is the Xbox 360?
Does nintindo still think we're fighting in the bit wars?
Rumor: The XBox 360 is the computational equivalent of a toaster.
Rumor: It doesn't matter because if the wii was any indication nintendo isn't going to be able to pull 3rd party support for shit, and their games are almost entirely devoid of textures.
Wait, neither of those are rumors.
Rumor: It doesn't matter because if the wii was any indication nintendo isn't going to be able to pull 3rd party support for shit, and their games are almost entirely devoid of textures.
Wait, neither of those are rumors.
Exactly my thoughts, this is hardly suprising news.GreatTeacherCAW said:
It's still going to be less powerful than the next Xbox and Playstation.
Forget about whether or not the Wii U is more powerful than a Xbox 360. The REAL question is...
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^That.GreatTeacherCAW said:
It's completely pathetic how Nintendo is so proud of the WiiU being more powerful than last generation's competitors. How about you compare your current Gen console to current Gen Hardware? Last time I checked "twice the power of the Xbox360" was about the equivalent of 3 Cellphones.
If the rumors about the Xbox 720 (AMD 6xxxCard) prove to be true, even THAT one won't be able to compare to CURRENT PCs. Let alone the weaker WiiU.
Too little too late.
I don't care if it 3x better than a 360, if developers continue to make 85% shovelware crap for the system, I'm still not getting it.
Other than the small, very small, catalog of AAA titles for the Wii, I'm very disapointed in it after owning one for almost three years now.
Other than the small, very small, catalog of AAA titles for the Wii, I'm very disapointed in it after owning one for almost three years now.
I just can't believe they're going with Xbox 720 - in a world obsessed with HD, surely you go for 1080 or nothing - especially as a mere name doesn't serve as a legal guarantee everything will run at 1080. 
As for the Wii U, try to take the console seriously after this.
As for the Wii U, try to take the console seriously after this.
Indeed. Although I guess "Twice as powerful as an obsolete doorstop" or "Almost as powerful as a new fridge" don't sound quite as good from a PR point of view.GreatTeacherCAW said:
But again, six times as powerful as a system released 7 years ago, probably 8 or 9 years by the time the new one is actually on sale. That still amounts to saying basically "Not quite as bad as the competition", rather than actually saying anything good about their own system.Grouchy Imp said:
It's really simple actually. This was stated over a year ago, the old dev kits were under clocked and didn't have finalized hardware. Now that the system's final dev kit is out the system is 5x as powerful as the ps360 and 2.5x as powerful as the old dev kit.
Why are people pissed and disgusted that Wii U's CPU is "only" twice as powerful as the 360 on the basis their own assertion that "Thats BS the Wii U's graphics are gonna suck it should be 10 times as powerful or more!".
I somehow imagine if this same figure came out for Microsoft, that the Xbox 720's CPU could be said to be twice as powerful as the 360's, that that would just be proof of how amazingly powerful Microsoft's system is going to be.
The fact is, the evidence right now is generally pointing to the Wii U and Xbox 720 being MUCH more comparable in horsepower than most people would have dared imagine back during E3 2011 when Wii U was announced and everyone was calling it a stopgap system, even though developers even back then were saying that Wii U was more capable than a lot of people were willing to consider possible.
The assertion that Microsoft's 8th gen console would completely outclass the Wii U in terms of graphics yield in the same way that the Xbox 360 did to the deliberately low performance Wii to me stems from an anti Nintendo bias coming from the same sort of people who demand Nintendo to stop being conservative and "do something new for a change", and then accusing anything new they come up with of being a "worthless gimmick" that proves that Nintendo's games and systems aren't worth playing.
I know it may be hard for some of the younger gamers out there who grew up in the N64 and Gamecube days were it was actually popular and fashionable to hate games and systems just because they're Nintendo's, and hard to imagine a world where Nintendo might have a post-Gamecube system that actually has comparable visuals to the competition, but based on the picture a lot of these horsepower rumors are painting, in addition to comments from third party developers, that may be more likely to be the case than a lot of people realize.
I somehow imagine if this same figure came out for Microsoft, that the Xbox 720's CPU could be said to be twice as powerful as the 360's, that that would just be proof of how amazingly powerful Microsoft's system is going to be.
The fact is, the evidence right now is generally pointing to the Wii U and Xbox 720 being MUCH more comparable in horsepower than most people would have dared imagine back during E3 2011 when Wii U was announced and everyone was calling it a stopgap system, even though developers even back then were saying that Wii U was more capable than a lot of people were willing to consider possible.
The assertion that Microsoft's 8th gen console would completely outclass the Wii U in terms of graphics yield in the same way that the Xbox 360 did to the deliberately low performance Wii to me stems from an anti Nintendo bias coming from the same sort of people who demand Nintendo to stop being conservative and "do something new for a change", and then accusing anything new they come up with of being a "worthless gimmick" that proves that Nintendo's games and systems aren't worth playing.
I know it may be hard for some of the younger gamers out there who grew up in the N64 and Gamecube days were it was actually popular and fashionable to hate games and systems just because they're Nintendo's, and hard to imagine a world where Nintendo might have a post-Gamecube system that actually has comparable visuals to the competition, but based on the picture a lot of these horsepower rumors are painting, in addition to comments from third party developers, that may be more likely to be the case than a lot of people realize.
Oh, fear not, all, the developers themselves are going to make enough empty promises for everyone. We won't need rumors.
With that said, it'd behoove Nintendo to continue to do things their way, but also adopt a very important intent: giving people what they want. The Wii may have been successful with soccer moms, fine, but they could have bagged so much more if they spent less time making things unintuitive and irritating for everyone else, and yes, also competitive in terms of hardware capability with the other guys. Then you can make a legitimate case that the game developers should come to you, because you offer what the other companies do, but also offer something wholly your own, a chance to deliver on all fronts.
Not that my opinion is going to change a thing, but hey, you're in this to make money anyway, aren't you Nintendo?
With that said, it'd behoove Nintendo to continue to do things their way, but also adopt a very important intent: giving people what they want. The Wii may have been successful with soccer moms, fine, but they could have bagged so much more if they spent less time making things unintuitive and irritating for everyone else, and yes, also competitive in terms of hardware capability with the other guys. Then you can make a legitimate case that the game developers should come to you, because you offer what the other companies do, but also offer something wholly your own, a chance to deliver on all fronts.
Not that my opinion is going to change a thing, but hey, you're in this to make money anyway, aren't you Nintendo?