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thismeintiel on 25 March 2012
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zero129 said:
thismeintiel said:
If this turns out to be true, it wouldn't surprise me in the least. I know some Nintendo fans are hoping this will blow the PS3 out of the water (3x or 4x more powerful), but I don't see it happening. Not unless Nintendo does want that hefty price tag. It'll probably be more like 1.5x more powerful when all things are considered and the graphics will be have better shadowing and anti-aliasing, while having the texture quality and poly count of PS3's better looking games.

This would actually make more sense if Nintendo wants to keep the price tag ~$299. Though, I don't think it's going to help them with 3rd party support when most developers leave for the much more powerful PS4/NeXbox, which will probably be releasing 1 year from the Wii U's launch.

I don't know how you come to that conclusion. The PS3 is 6 years old, the is sub €100 GFX cards out now that blows the PS3 out of the water, same for the CPU. The is no reason to believe the WiiU won't be atleast 3-4 times more powerfull then the PS3, but i know "Some Sony Fans" would like to think other wise....

I probably should have been more specific.  I meant 1.5x in real world execution, not numbers on paper.  Nothing Nintendo has said or shown has given me the impression they aiming to, or will succeed, in making the Wii U push out graphics that are 3x or 4x better than the PS3's.  Like I said, texture quality and poly count will probably remain similar to the better looking PS3 games, while it will have greatly improved shadowing and anti-aliasing.  If the Zelda tech demo is anything to go on, this seems to be the case.