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Roma on 06 April 2012

It won't be more powerful than Orbis nor Durango and it won't be less powerful than PS3 and 360


but there won't be that big of a gap as Wii was to PS360 it will be more like PS2 was to GC



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ninty_shareholder64 on 06 April 2012
richardhutnik said:
I am calling it now: The next gen Sony and Microsoft consoles will be a PS3 and 360 duct taped together, while the Wii U will be a PS3 and 360 duct taped together with a DS.

ROFL

I liked that one pretty much, i don't know why.

 

*still smiling*



Andrespetmonkey on 06 April 2012
zero129 said:
Superman4 said:
Soundwave said:

Honestly I think in the higher end market, Microsoft is going to drive Sony out in the next 5-6 years by creating a better piece of hardware, which in turn will make them the console of choice for "hardcore" players.

Sony can't afford to price match Microsoft anymore, and Microsoft knows this. A couple of years of losses upfront on the 720 and they can bury Sony for good. We're starting to hear some reports that seem to indicate MS is "going for it" at the urging of some developers (probably Epic and some others). So I could see a situation where the 720 has say 4GB of RAM + a beefier GPU versus a Sony Orbis that has 2GB RAM/weaker GPU.

Nintendo will retain a good portion of the lower end/"normal person" (lol) market, but MS will make inroads here too with Kinect.


Considering Sony is a hardware company, I don't see Microsoft able to pull that off. Plus if the rumors are true and Sony is going with all AMD, devs will have no problem making games for the PS3. I have a feeling the specs will be a little higher on the final announcment for the PS3.

The PS3 is already out and we know the specs xD.

The almighty CELL has still to rise up and defeat humanity. This is what he is talking about.



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Rafux on 06 April 2012
freebs2 said:
Rafux said:
Yep this makes sense, WiiU will be more powerful than a system that will be released a year later.

Actually, the X360 was more powerful than a system released an year later :P

@OP No WiiU won't probably be more powerfull than Ps4 and no a Radeon 400x is not better than a Radeon 700x.


More powerful? I think PS3 and 360 are tied but you do have a good point.



NintendoPie on 06 April 2012
PlaystaionGamer said:
another day.. another how powerful the WiiU is/isnt thread.

please close mods

Not worth closing.

At least it isn't a *copy/paste* type thread. He seemed to have put a lot of work into it.



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KeptoKnight on 06 April 2012
zero129 said:
NightDragon83 said:
Only two more months till the madness ends! lol.

I thought the Wii U was confirmed to have a custom tri-core CPU, not a quad core like the Power7 CPU's specs you listed? If it does in fact have a quad-core Power 7 based CPU, then I really can't see how anyone can say that the CPU is WORSE than the 360's or PS3's like some "anonymous" sources have stated in recent days. The Cell might have an edge in raw number crunching, but with a better GPU and much more RAM than the PS3 I can't see how the Wii U is only "on par" with the PS3 in terms of performance.

Honestly I expect all three systems next gen to be very similar in power and performance, with the PS4 and 720 holding a slight edge over the Wii U because I don't see either M$ or Sony going for "bleeding edge" technology like they did last gen. We'll know for sure at E3 though.

I agree 100% with you, i think all next gen systems will pretty much be the same, with maybe minor diffrances.

yup.



Player1x3 on 06 April 2012
Rafux said:
freebs2 said:
Rafux said:
Yep this makes sense, WiiU will be more powerful than a system that will be released a year later.

Actually, the X360 was more powerful than a system released an year later :P

@OP No WiiU won't probably be more powerfull than Ps4 and no a Radeon 400x is not better than a Radeon 700x.


More powerful? I think PS3 and 360 are tied but you do have a good point.


im pretty sure he was talking about the Wii :p



VGKing on 06 April 2012
zero129 said:
zarx said:
first the source said that the PS4 had an integrated GPU on the CPU that will work together so technically you should probably be almost doubling those PS4 numbers.

Second the wii U has a r770 based GPU which is anything from the 4730-7870 with the 4730 being weaker than a single 6670 that is ignoring the advances in GPGPU and tessellation etc the newer architecture brings.

The Integrated GPU on the PS3 might not be cut/not even used. Also its a piece of crap and still wouldn't double it.

Alot of rumors state its the 4870 or close to it. and if you really think the 7670 would be good at tessellation etc you most be joking, its a low end card.

Like i said im just going by rumors, people are easy to believe the ones that says its going to be weaker then the PS3 and 360, this is just showing facts based on the rumors.

And the is no reason Nintendo would pick the weakest of the 4xxx Series GPU's, when they can go to the top of the 4xxx GPU's for cheap, unlike the 7xxx series.

1. Which rumors? I would love for you to provide a link since all the rumors I've seen only say R700 series. They don't mention any specific GPU.

2. Because the top of the 4xxx GPUs is more expensive than the other ones. Because the 4870 consumes 150watts which is way too much?

The original XBox 360 used 155watts while idle in the dashboard. 177 while playing Halo 3. Keep in mind these watts include the CPU and GPU and everything else in the system. 

The HD 4870 uses 150 watts BY ITSELF! Nintendo is definitely not using this in the Wii U unless they want high rate of failure and a noisy system.



sperrico87 on 06 April 2012
zero129 said:
BasilZero said:
@___@

APRIL FOOLS XD

Nope, based on the rumored specs (Mostly the GPU ones) it seems like the Wii U may be more powerful the the PS4.

No, just no.

Wii U will not be more powerful than PS4.  By nearly all accounts it's barely more powerful than PS3.



 

VGKing on 06 April 2012
Soundwave said:

Honestly I think in the higher end market, Microsoft is going to drive Sony out in the next 5-6 years by creating a better piece of hardware, which in turn will make them the console of choice for "hardcore" players.

Sony can't afford to price match Microsoft anymore, and Microsoft knows this. A couple of years of losses upfront on the 720 and they can bury Sony for good. We're starting to hear some reports that seem to indicate MS is "going for it" at the urging of some developers (probably Epic and some others). So I could see a situation where the 720 has say 4GB of RAM + a beefier GPU versus a Sony Orbis that has 2GB RAM/weaker GPU.

Nintendo will retain a good portion of the lower end/"normal person" (lol) market, but MS will make inroads here too with Kinect.


Highly unlikely. Microsoft loves making profit. Want proof? There hasnt' been an Xbox 360 price cut since like 2008.

An Xbox 360 would easily bee sold at $150 with Microsoft still making decent profit. But why isn't it? Because Microsoft loves making profit.