“Wii U Is Pretty Powerful… Which Means You Can Do A Lot More [than current consoles]” -Vigil

[Viper1]

TWRoO said:

Viper1 said:

GC, DS and even most 3DS specs were released.   Wii has been the only console they were entirely hush hush about.

Oh really? I didn't know they released GC specs (was it before or after release?) and tbh I forgot about handhelds.

GC specs were released prior to launch.  However, they didn't give raw geometry specs but expected real world geometry with full effects in operation.   This is why the GC is listed as 6-12 million polygons per second compared to the PS2 at 66 million and Xbox at over 100 million.   And even the 6-12 million was very conservative as many titles pushed nearly 20 million.

Mr Khan said:

I thought 3DS data was only for the GPU, and was released by the GPU company and not Nintendo, though more info could have been released since then that i was unaware of.

True that the details were released by DMP rather than Nintendo but Nintendo allowed them to do so unlike their absolute spec blackout they forced ATi (AMD) into with Wii.