sc94597 said:
From what I've been reading, since it will be using a custom cpu based on a Power 7 architecture (which apparently is the most powerful architecture of IBM CPUs and are more powerful than comparable Intel i7s), depending on how many cores were cut off and how low the clock speed is decreased to fit energy and temperature requirements iit should be anywhere from a few to many times(I'm not sure how accurate that is) more powerful than the 360s Xenon. Since we should expect a comparable GPU that won't bottleneck the CPU, that also should be a significant upgrade. Will it be an upgrade similar to that of last generation to this generation? More than likely not, but neither should we expect the other next generation consoles to be, especially if they don't want to make similar losses at the start of the generation. So I think it will be safe to say that PS720 will be in the same range as Wii U, and while all of them will be significantly more powerful than what we see now with the HD Twins, the difference won't be as large as that from PS2, Gamecube, Xbox -> PS360.
Here's the thread on Neogaf I was reading about the Wii U's cpu.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=432965
edit: One more thing, most of the footage used in the montage trailer of WII U games is actually footage of the PS360 versions. Just wanted to make that clear to those who are looking at that for a reference.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_A2
The PowerPC A2 is a massively multicore capable and multithreaded 64-bit Power Architecture processor core designed by IBM using the Power ISA v.2.06 specification. Versions of processors based on the A2 core range from a 2.3 GHz version with 16 cores consuming 65 W to a less powerful, four core version, consuming 20 W at 1.4 GHz. Each A2 core is capable of four-way multithreading.
Is another good possibility.
