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crissindahouse on 13 July 2012
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Jay520 said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
Conegamer said:
Well, there's no real surprise here. The only people who disagreed were 'anonymous' sources. Everyone who was actually named who spoke about the WiiU knew it would be much more powerful. I mean, 2GB RAM? Modern GPU? All we need is the clock speeds for the CPU to confirm it, but so far it's looking very powerful indeed.

It's 1.5 gb RAM.

But yeah, it's clearly going to be more powerful than this gen. The real question is how will it compare to Orbis and Durango, and I think it's unlikely that the Wii U will be close to achieving what these other 2 will (physics, graphics etc.). I think it'll probably be able to run the same games, but with a lot of drawbacks. That's mostly speculation though.


People always mention physics as a result of technical ability. I don't get it. What the Hell is physics and why do you need more power to handle it? How complex do you need your physics to be? I've always thought physics was something limited by developer ability, not hardware ability. Similar to AI. And to be honest, I have never played a game that made me say "oh my Dear Lord! Look at those physics!". Same with AI. I have also never seen a reviewer praising physics. Same with AI.

as more complicated they make the physics as more data the console has to calculate. and you never read about that? physics are a huge part of racing games or games like battlefield. almost every review is talking about that. and ai is also a huge part, as example also in racing games. just play forza 4 and one thing as good as the game is, is very obviously, the other drivers are a little bit stupid and don't act very logical sometimes.

or halo as example got a lot of praise for enemies ai (and cod exactly the opposite) and some not so nice words about some friends ai as example the drivers ai when you let someone else drive the warthog to be able to shoot. i believe killzone has also good ai. when you play an ego-shooter with god ai and then with stupid ai it looks so bad how these idiots act in the bad ai game.

or have you seen as example heavy rain? there is not even really ai in the game. if you do something, you will always get exactly the same result. if you push this and that button this or that will happen and the enemie won't do something else because he doesn't have ai. put a lot of ai in the game and watch how the graphics will go down then.

you read these things in many reviews and they are very noticable.