Wii 'U'nder powered?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Dr.Grass said:

Rhonin the wizard said:

thetonestarr said:

All we know about the Wii U's technical specs are that:

-it uses a Power7 CPU
-it uses flash memory

Now, the Power7 CPU can be anywhere from approximately equal to the 360 (on the very low end), to as much as four times more powerful (on the extreme high end).

And flash memory as the main storage means much faster load times, which is a technical benefit as well.

Anything beyond that is 100% pure speculation and shouldn't be given any heed to. There were a million rumors about the WiiU and still are, and most of them have already been proven false. Don't add to the shitpile.

The GPU will be a custom AMD Radeon HD GPU. The source is a press release. And here's one for the CPU.

@thetonestarr Thanks for pointing that out. I can't believe some of the hate I'm getting for making a simple thread. Why are people so high-strung out there!?

I guess some misunderstanding come from the fact that, given how fast CPU and GPU performance grow, if a gen is launched 6 or more years after the previous, making a new console twice as powerful as the average previous gen would be very, very conservative, while even 4 times as powerful would still be cheap and prudent. Heck, when I built my last PC, choosing cheap components, including onboard graphics (Radeon HD3300), I made it more than twice as fast as the previous in its slowest parts (excluding disk speed that didn't grow very much), and its main RAM is 6 times as large (4GB, vs. the previous 768MB). And I spent less than for building the previous one, those 4GB for example cost me a half of what I paid the previous 768MB.