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Am I right in my analysis?

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Oh, Heeeellz no! 43 35.54%
 
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DanneSandin on 29 November 2012
HoloDust said:
DanneSandin said:
Squilliam said:

I really can't say though it depends on the game design. I could see how  some games which are CPU heavy with strong AI, rigid body physics etc would not run very well on the Wii U.

And that's one of the reasons that worries me, as a Nintendo fan and gamer; I don't wanna get a second console and playing on PC can really be such a pain!!


So far, it really seems that CPU is just not strong enough - and all that talk about how "GeePeeGeePee U" will somehow miraculously take over functions of CPU is....silly, to put it mildly. They "may" be able to put physics on it, but a lot of game code is not at all that well suited for GPUs. Above that, and that's even more important, you have situation where current HD consoles have strong enough CPUs, PCs have strong CPUs and next-gen MSony offerings will have strong CPUs. Everyone has it, except for WiiU - hm, wondering, what route 3rd parties will take....;)

Still, I don't think it is PS360-Wii type of situation. WiiU is mostly structured as 360, it's GPU has more or less the same features as next MSony consoles, though a lot less power, so from GPU side there shouldn't be lot of problems to downscale (though that might make for some quite bad looking games in some extreme cases, where there was no further optimization). As for CPU and that memory bandwith, I guess we'll just have to wait and see some more games that are CPU intensive - I'm really looking forward to Digital Foundry's Assassin's Creed 3 Wii U face-off, that game both has lot of charachters at the same time on screen and I think Ubi put some effort in it.

As for whether or not you will have to get another console (or embrace PCs) - I have no doubt that Ninty's 1st parties will run flawlessly, but it seems to me that if you intend to play lot of 3rd parties, you might have to do just that - even if you have no problem with "downscaled everything" on future next-gen WiiU ports, it really seems there will be quite a few titles that won't be seeing their WiiU versions coming to life for whatever reason.

Damn you Nintendo >=( Why you go betray me like this?! I'm not gonna have 2 consoles AND a PC....



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Squilliam on 29 November 2012
DanneSandin said:
Squilliam said:

The problem is that any modern X86 core will absolutely smoke the Wii U CPU and the Wii U looks like the odd one out in terms of CPU performance. It'll be OK if either the PS4/Xbox 3 use only say 4 Jaguar cores from AMD at say 1.8Ghz. However if they use say 8 of them then it might cause problems for porting games to the Wii U because whilst it is easy to strip graphics detail back it isn't very easy to change the core program.

Well,. I know nothing of tech so I'm just gonna go a head and trust you on this. I wouldn't mind if Wii U got lower graphics compared to PS720, but if the core game play is effected, like you suggest, we'll have another Wii situation and I'll make a "Nintendo betrayed us" thread.

If there is a large gap a lot of developers may simply fork off their old engine design and use that for the Wii U whilst developing entirely new engines for the next generation Xbox and Playstation consoles, kind of what happened with the PS2 games getting ported to the Wii.



Tease.

JEMC on 29 November 2012
DanneSandin said:

Damn you Nintendo >=( Why you go betray me like this?! I'm not gonna have 2 consoles AND a PC....

Then have only a WiiU and a PC, which will have most if not all multiplats.



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DanneSandin on 30 November 2012
JEMC said:
DanneSandin said:

Damn you Nintendo >=( Why you go betray me like this?! I'm not gonna have 2 consoles AND a PC....

Then have only a WiiU and a PC, which will have most if not all multiplats.

Yea, but I don't like playing all kind of games on my PC. I wanna use my PC for surfing the internetz and strategy games. Batman AA is alright on PC, but Darksiders have terrible controls...



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