Return to the 'is the Wii more powerful than original Xbox?' question

[windbane]

HappySqurriel said:

windbane said:

Well I hope this stops the arguement that somehow Nintendo uses hardware that is so optimized that MHz doesn't matter and their architecture is so superior. It's barely more powerful than the Xbox 1.

You can say it doesn't matter, and sales prove that right, but it will matter for a lot of games. Wii is last gen.

(I want to remind people that I'm most likely getting a Wii, despite so many things I find wrong with it such as this. I never had a gamecube so it's worth about $100 to me for that.)

 

I don't think you really understand what you're talking about; it is a well known fact that G3, G4 and G5 PowerPC processors were far faster than their Pentium 2, Pentium 3 and Pentium 4 counterparts at the same clockspeed. It wasn't until Intel released the Prescot 2M core in Early 2005 that the Pentium 4 line became competative with other processor lines at similar clockspeeds; at 2.8 GHz the Prescott core was considered 'equal' to the Willamette core at 6.2GHz which is why it was named Pentium 4 HT 620.

It's barely more powerful than the Xbox 1, no matter how you spin it.