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VetteDude on 10 June 2011
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drkohler said:
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

so IF god forbid this new console is ONLY as powerful as the ps3..

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).

I agree, the brick will have to be huge, and I doubt it is internal like the PS3's. Although it could be, they can make power supplies incredibly small. The newest PS2 Slim model (Post 2009) has an internal power supply, and we know how small the PS2 slim is.

I doubt it's clocked at 3.5 GHz.