Mordred11 said:
I seriously doubt Wii2 to even be as powerful as the PS3,let alone 2.5x more powerful.I even doubt the PS4 to be that powerful. |
It would be quite difficult to release a $250-300 console in Autumn 2012 less powerful than a PS3 or a XB360. Even the cheapest mid-low range GPU available by then will be more powerful than this gen consoles' GPUs, same for the CPUs. Wii may be the least powerful this gen, but it still has 42% more total RAM than XBox1, and its 730MHz PowerPC CPU is a lot more powerful than the 730MHz Pentium III - Celeron hybrid in XB1, while its Radeon based GPU is clocked ~50% higher than GC's one, besides the obvious architectural evolution, and it also includes an ARM9 CPU as coprocessor. About Wii2, it's almost sure Ninty won't try to compete with the Cell with special processing units, but Power CPUs available will allow it to at least easily exceed XB360's Xenon tri-core CPU's processing power (and obviously also Cell's PPE, as the model used by PS3 has only one of them, relying more on SPEs). And RAM is already so cheap that Nintendo won't make the mistake to equip Wii2 with too little of it, offering the laziest 3rd parties an easy excuse to not port their games. So yes, 2.5 times the power of PS3 could be a reasonable target for PS4 and XB720, but 1.5 could be Wii2's one without implying excessive costs, and no console will offer an amount of main RAM significantly lower than competitors.
