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I'll draw my conclusion from the things that have been confirmed.
1) IBM CPU that is not Power 7. Info is still vague. I doubt it will be anything weaker than the Xenon.
2) AMD GPGPU. At this point any would be better than what's in the PS3/360.
3) Slightly more than twice the amount of RAM for game development than the current consoles. It has 2gb, but 1gb will be for devs.
4) WiiU can do full 720p with 4x AA or 1080p native.

WiiU is, at most, 3x more powerful than current consoles.



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2x more powerful but there will be some inferior multiplats in comparison to the ps360 versions



                                



Mr Puggsly said:
Based on what we know now... about equal.

I think Nintendo's goal was make it cheap and make it easy to port PS360 games to it.

 

Guess you didn't get to see the Nintendo Wii U conference.  It has roughly 4x more RAM...you know memory needed to run games(it doesn't even mention the loads of embedded RAM it should have) and a more modern GPU than the ones found on last gen HD systems.  So being equal shouldn't even be an option since there is loads of information/facts showing that it is a true, blue next gen system.  Now the real question is how much more?!!! 



kain_kusanagi said:

 

 

That chart gives me a headache



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Solid-Stark said:

I'll draw my conclusion from the things that have been confirmed.
1) IBM CPU that is not Power 7. Info is still vague. I doubt it will be anything weaker than the Xenon.
2) AMD GPGPU. At this point any would be better than what's in the PS3/360.
3) Slightly more than twice the amount of RAM for game development than the current consoles. It has 2gb, but 1gb will be for devs.
4) WiiU can do full 720p with 4x AA or 1080p native.

WiiU is, at most, 3x more powerful than current consoles.

 

Finally somebody that makes sense and ACTUALLY used reliable/credible information that is out there!!! (not that I don't love the charts and DBZ characters as they were hella funny).  Most of my PC gamer buddies and such actually have it being 3-4x more powerful than these last generation/current generation HD systems.  I for one would be surprised if it is less than 3X more powerful. 



Galaki said:


Funny as hell!!!!



osed125 said:


NOOOOOO reminds me of my college days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   



RAM is x3 (only x2 is usable) and basically that is the only thing they said (because all the rest is roughly the same). This will be clear when the console releases, but you can already extrapolate from the power consumption and from the fact that they were "totally" unable to "show" anything on screen that looked better of something that we already saw on older machines. Let alone the were unable to match the top graphic on those machines.

This isn't common when a powerful machine come out (powerful 2x,3x like some of you say). Xbox 360 had game on launch like perfect dark, it had oblivion few month after launch and gears of war in the first year. PS3 had resistance. Those games clearly made the gap in tech apparent.

Surely, like always, there were sub par games at beginning of the cycle But there were also games that marked clearly the differences from previous generation. This is absent form wiiU scene, and that is because the wiiU is NOT a new generation form hardware perspective.



askel50 said:

RAM is x3 (only x2 is usable) and basically that is the only thing they said (because all the rest is roughly the same). This will be clear when the console releases, but you can already extrapolate from the power consumption and from the fact that they were "totally" unable to "show" anything on screen that looked better of something that we already saw on older machines. Let alone the were unable to match the top graphic on those machines.

This isn't common when a powerful machine come out (powerful 2x,3x like some of you say). Xbox 360 had game on launch like perfect dark, it had oblivion few month after launch and gears of war in the first year. PS3 had resistance. Those games clearly made the gap in tech apparent.

Surely, like always, there were sub par games at beginning of the cycle But there were also games that marked clearly the differences from previous generation. This is absent form wiiU scene, and that is because the wiiU is NOT a new generation form hardware perspective.

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