drkohler said:
The WiiU isn't going to be 5x the power of anXBox360/PS3, not even close. A reasonable estimate is an AMD5570 variant GPU (roughly twice as fast as the XBox GPU) and a quad core CPU (roughly 50% more efficient than the XBox CPU). Then again, the WiiU has to do more than the XBox360 (driving more and possibly bigger screens) so I figure the WiiU will turn out to have roughly 30%-40% more computing power than an XBox360/PS3. These rough estimates may be against people's wishes but price/size of a console dictate performance and the WiiU box seems to be smaller than an XBox360/PS3... Every compnent in a WiiU is more expensive than the XBox360/PS3 counterpart so an initial price below $300 is wishful thinking. Since Nintendo is alone this fall in the "next NextGen" console race, I wouldn't be surprised to see an initial price of $450 (if only to recoup development costs while there is no competition around). |
Size and price don't dictate performance. The N64 was cheaper than the PS1, but stronger, and the GCN was cheaper (and smaller) than the PS2, but stronger.
Also I highly doubt the initial price will be higher than $400 unless it comes bundled with a game, and to clarify, are the pridicted "AMD 5570/Quad Core CPU" for the Wii U, or NextBox? If they are, then I would have to disagree.
