irstupid said: well you guys can interpret his comments however you want, whether you want ot think its stronger, almost as strong or same as 360/ps3. but lets just get down to the dry bones |
From an engineering point of view, we've heard/seen two rumours:
1) The CPU is a triple core IBM risk chip in 45nm, clocked over 3.5GHz. More memory in every system path than PS360.
2) The Wii U unit looks like a white box roughly the size of a custom Blu-ray drive on top of a 2.5inch hdbay (no depth info visible).
Points 1) and 2) contradict each other in a fundamental way.
If 1) is true, the unit will generate a lot, and I mean _A LOT_ more heat than a (non-slim) XBox360. There is no way all this heat can be dissipated in an enclosure shown as the Wii U unit (and if you owned an original XBox360, you know what happens...) Never shown in the pictures/ seen on the E3 show ground is the separate, big, ugly power brick required to power such a unit (and it is absolutely obvious there was such a brick in all those demo enclosures at the show).
If 2) is true, then the chips are clocked lower than a (non-slim) XBox360/PS3 (allowing for sufficient heat dissipation), making the Wii U unit almost perform on par with PS360 (due to more memory available). (Maybe the white Wii U unit shown is a complete mockup).