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20happyballs on 21 June 2011
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Joelcool7 said:
naimisharanya said:
I'm sorry, but I think you fail for putting the highest option as 100% more powerful than PS3. Especially that you say ''heavy price tag'' next to it.

It wouldn't be very expensive to produce a machine several times more powerful than the PS3 and 360 combined. If Wii U is as 'powerful' as you suggest in the OP then I would even say that it wouldn't be very expensive to produce a machine several times more powerful than the PS3, 360 and Wii U combined.

I however think that the Wii U will be quite a bit more powerful than you are suggesting there. Maybe 3-5x as powerful as PS3.

'Powerful' not being a very definable word of course.

Umm considering many still consider the PS3 to be capable of competing with current PC technology. Then I can't see WiiU or any console being more then 100% more powerful then PS3 especially if they are to be released by 2013 as many are suggesting. Though I admit I should have gone higher in the poll.

Current gaming PC's aren't even 100% more powerful then PS3 to my knowledge. Look at the best and most power driven game for PC released to date BattleField3, that is not 100% more powerful then PS3 infact I doubt its even 50% more powerful then PS3. I doubt you could release a 100% more powerful system even in 2014.

Now I'm not a PC expert, but I know that developers are saying WiiU is 50% more powerful then PS3. EA said that WiiU could handle BattleField3 which is state of the art releasing this winter. I can't see how a console could be 50% more powerful then that by 2013? And 100% released anytime soon would be radiculously more expensive then WiiU!

"Now I'm not a PC expert"...Yeah, that's obvious. Being a 100% more powerful means being only twice as powerful. From a hardware perspective, that actually isn't nearly as much as you'd think. All the other generations saw a much bigger leap. As for your claim that the PS3 is comparable to the top of the line PC hardware, I would like to say that that is a completely ignorant statement. 

I'll admit that some PS3 games are almost comparable to the best looking PC games out there, but that's mostly because of a software advantage. When it comes to PC game development, there is not nearly as much engine optimization that can be done due to the many different computer configurations. Console development, on the other hand, allows for a much better use of resources. Consoles allow games to take nearly  all the resources of the systems, unlike pc games which are running alongside many other processes. And besides, making a pc game look much better than a consoles one would actually be a waste of money. Not many people out there have a computer good enough to even run the original Crysis game. Crysis would have been mor successfull if more people of could have run it. Demand is what is keeping PC games from advancing graphically.  

Mainstream computers are already containing six-core CPUs and GPUs that are many times more powerful than this generations. I would hope that the next generation of consoles is at least 7 times more powerful than our current systems, and I don't think that's being hopeful. The next generation of consoles will likely be even more powerful than that. Honestly, a 100% increase in power would not even be that noticeable of a difference.