The Nintendo WiiU is next-gen because...?

[Euphoria14]

thetonestarr said:

Euphoria14 said:

thetonestarr said:

Oh, I know. But the fact that they charge so much extra to do it for you is absurd, and how many people know you have that option?

Not sure really, but I quoted you another post to explain why there was a $100 price difference between models and up until now with the 160GB and 320GB there was much more difference to them than just HDD size.

Yeah, I just saw that. But given that you're a more reasonable person, I think I can discuss that more straightforward with you.

USB Wifi dongles can be purchased for less than $15 at a plethora of stores. Given that a dongle requires much more hardware than simply a wifi chip (like what they had to include to give PS3 the wifi) and drivers compatible with a variety of systems, the value of the chip itself couldn't be more than $10 max. $10 + 40GB SHOULD have cost $25-$40 max.

The backwards compatibility in the second model was purely software. That software BCC was probably based vastly on an already-existing emulator that they took from the Internet (and if they didn't, why the hell not? And even so, so many emulators exist for free, so you know they don't cost much to code and put out), so that's an inconsequential difference entirely.

RAM is a little more uncertain, but still not worth the difference when I recently bought 16GB RAM for $100 for my friend's PC I built. Divide that $100 by 16 and that was $6.25 per GB. Of DDR3 1666 gaming-spec RAM.

I think the PS3 BOM had the WiFi listed as $8, so yeah, the cost was minimal. So even with the memcard reader and/or the additional USB ports you are only looking at maybe another $15 or so in cost. 

Other than that, the 60GB PS3 contained the PS2 CPU and GPU in it, which is why it has better B/C than the 80GB. The 80GB only contained the PS2 GPU and the CPU was emulated through software. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think this is prety accurate from what I can recall.