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Soundwave on 24 March 2012
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Navane said:
Xxain said:
RolStoppable said:
This sounds like the director doesn't know much about specifications. I mean, he uses a qualifier like "based on what I understand". He has really no idea what he is talking about.

On a sidenote, what's up with oniyide? Does his text not get through or has he become too lazy to write "This."?

His text probably just vanished. That's been happening alot lately, sometimes a whole paragraph.

On topic - Let's pretend that Wii U's tech was on par with PS360. Why is that problem? 

The problem is that there is little reason to own a Wii-U unless third-party games are significantly better with a tablet controller. I want to see more than just a new controller to play existing games on. If third-party games are gonna looks exactly the same, then why own a Wii U to begin with?

It also kinda peevs me off knowing that if this turns out to be true, then there shouldn't have been any reason why Nintendo can't include a better processor and more RAM. It shouldn't be hard, and would give developers more of a reason to port their games over to Wii-U for "the definite experience". It just doesn't make sense if it's not at least a little bit more powerful.

At this point, the only reason to own a Wii U is going to be for Nintendo's own games.


Yeah I kinda gotta wonder ... even a very cheap AMD GPU like the Radeon 6670 w/1GB GDDR5 RAM ($99 retail) is something Nintendo could probably get for $60-$70 a pop (even that might be overstating its price for a big company like Nintendo). Throw in a reasonable triple core CPU and you'd likely have a kit that blows PS3/360 out of the water and could still cut a small profit at $299.99 retail ... factoring in a $60-$70 manufacturing cost for the controller.

It probably wouldn't fit into a case as small as the one Wii U is using, but really, I don't understand why they're so obsessed with having the smallest case possible right out of the gate. Being able to shrink the case 3 years down the line would provide a nice mid-cycle sales boost anyway as the PS3 and 360 both got with their slim revisions.