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superchunk on 07 April 2012
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A2B24R246 said:


What rumor told you that Wii U will have a similar or better CPU than Nextbox/Ps4??? Just because it is power PC based and delievers 4 cores doesnt really mean all that much. We have no indication of the per core performance do we? There are a host of old and weak intel cpus that can clock at 3.0 GHz with quad core and would still get destroyed by an intel i5 dual core running at a lower clock.

On the GPU side the most telling fact that Nintendo wont be able to compete is their choice to go for a RV770 based design....why in the world would they ever want something like that if they wanted to even come close to a 6670??? There is absolutely no reason why you would want to even consider spending all the R+D money on trying to boost a RV770 up to a upper end 6xxx based GPu, when you could, you know, just use a 6xxx based design. Sony and MS will also tweak and boost their own GPUs as well setting an even further gap.

As for the XDR2 ram, that is a good joke, a split pool would just anger devs, the new memory would be expensive, and finally that leak came from a rumor that pointed to the Wii U employing a power 6, not 7, CPU with custom blu ray disks up to 50 gigs....according to ninty it will only be up to 25 gigs and wont be able to have the licensing to play movies so i dont think you can really call it a 'blu ray' even if it is pretty much the same tech, so that also further disproves that rumor.

Looking to the rumors once again i fail to see anything that would remotely show the Wii U specs coming close to the Nextbox/PS4, all i see is vague adjectives thrown around like "great" and "much" no one mentions the Wii U as coming close to the competition or even being 'next gen' in terms of tech.

Have you not read my 2nd post in this thread? I have all the details and break down there between the CPUs.

IF PS4's chip is the AMD fusion based chip as some recent rumors state, then its highly probable the Power7 chip Wii U has is better. Granted there's a lot more to it as far as a while system goes, but I was only referring to the CPU itself.

As for the GPUs, yes Wii U's will be lower powered, however, they will all be heavily tweaked. Meaning Wii U's will have same GDDR5 VRAM and more than probably all the same basic features/software enhancers/shaders/etc. Meaning the difference will come down to speed and bandwidth.

So while MSony next boxes will handle stuff easier and have a slight edge on the graphics department, most won't notice or care and anything done on those two will easily be done on Wii U.

You have to keep in mind that anything MSony are trying to achieve, they are trying to achieve it with a price point under $400 and that is not too much higher than Nintendo's probably $300 price. What this means is you will not see a great difference in the hardware in any way.

RE: the bold/underlined... you'd consider using the RV770 due to FAR lower costs per unit, FAR better manufacturing yeilds, FAR lower heat production, and FAR lower energy consumption. If you can get a 90% similar output with a very small fraction of cost, waste, and heat... why wouldn't you?