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

[HappySqurriel]

Superman4 said:

spurgeonryan said:
I highly doubt that the Wii U will be less powerful than the 360/PS3. The Wii was already not horribly far behind them. So basically if this was true they would be saying that the wii U is just a little stronger than the 3DS. Sounds a bit rediculous to me. Probably a company making some shovelware for the Wii U so Nintendo gave them a Nintendo 64 kit to work with.

What? The Wii was so far behind technically it couldn't even make them out through the trail of dust they left it in. 480i/P is not even close to 720P/1080i/p. If it was even close, they would have done HD graphics. While I doubt the new Nintendo will be less than what is out today in terms of power, I doubt it will be much better. Nintendo likes it's profit margins much like Apple. They will keep the cost down as much as possible.

I think you need to be introduced to the Gamecube which was more powerful than the PS2, sold for $100 less, and Nintendo didn't come close to losing as much money on hardware as Sony did.

Here is a rough calculation for the cost of the Wii U console released at the end of 2012:

$125 (fixed cost)
+ $25 * performance multiple over XBox 360
+ premium cost of Wii U controller over conventional controller

If you assume it will cost $25 more for a Wii U controller than an XBox 360 controller (a reasonable estimate) and the Wii U is 4 times the performance of the XBox 360 (also a reasonable estimate) the Wii U could probably be sold for $250; if the Wii U was closer to 8 times the performance of the XBox 360 I would expect the cost to be closer to $350, and 16 times the performance would be around $550. All estimates within $50 either way.

Certainly, a conventional generational jump (8 to 32 times the performance) would result in a very expensive system; but a moderate performance improvement of 4 to 8 times would still leave the Wii U in a price range people are used to paying.