Now Wii U Is Less Powerful Than PS3/360? This Is Getting Stupid!

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ils411 said:

Viper1 said:

Actually, no.  The tablet screen won't ahve a GPU and processor as the data is just a video stream from the Wii U.

now, wouldn't that be kinda disapointing. i'm no techie but wouldnt it still need some sort of processor to translate the touch on the touchscreen? or could that be done through the wii u itself?

now, if its just a screen and the video streamed from the wii u, the rumored one tablet per wii u capacity makes sense now.

There isn't much more processing required to determine where a touch happened on a screen than is needed to know that a button was pressed ...

 

From a cost-effective perspective it is very good that the Wii U controller doesn't have significant processing power. For the cost to have a single stand-alone controller Nintendo can probably increase the processing power of the Wii U console to support 2 to 4 controllers. The unfortunate side effect is that, since all controllers would share resources, even if the Wii U supported more than 2 controllers few games would ever support more than 2 controllers.