HappySqurriel on 08 April 2012
| Squilliam said: Two Xbox 360s duct taped together... What we know: Small case. Low power design. Has to power a separate screen (or two) as well as render @ 720P. Effective performance is likely to be somewhere between 1-2* the performance of the Xbox 360 depending on game design. |
Once again, using the Gamecube (and almost all game consoles with the exception of the XBox, XBox 360 and PS3) as an example the size of the console doesn't tell us a lot about the real world performance of the system ...
It is highly likely that the Wii U will not be a monster on paper, but if the system is well designed, efficient and has the right customizations it could easily be a very powerful system at its current size. Consider what could be done with laptops (which are obviously not as efficiently designed and games are not optimized for their hardware specifically):
