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JGarret on 16 July 2012
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famousringo said:
Aielyn said:
Cobretti2 said:


LOL i knew the minute you wrote that what you were talking about (good old back to the future).

however it is spelt

gigawatts

No, it's not. That is to say, the word that the Doc says isn't "gigawatts". He says "jigga-watts". The correct pronunciation of the term has a hard "g", like in "good", and any actual scientist would know this. Besides which, if I'm not mistaken, he uses it as a measure of energy, rather than power (which is rate of change in energy over time), and therefore it cannot be GW.


You're both kinda missing my point. The misspelling is deliberate, as is the mockery of Doc Brown's pronunciation. The point is that it's irrelevant technojargon. What matters is not gigawatts, what matters is that Marty needs a time machine and a lightning bolt to power it.

What matters about the Wii U is whether it will be a time machine (compelling entertainment device) and whether it will have a lightning bolt to power it (compelling content). How many millions of texels the hardware can process is very much beside the point.

Play4fun is on the right track in saying that the interest in power is due to interest in whether Wii U can share in premium next-gen multiplats or not. I don't actually believe power matters there, either. Unreal Engine 3 got scaled down to a freakin' iPhone 3GS, but somehow a hundred million Wiis weren't worth the effort. Whatever Nintendo's problem is with attracting multiplatform titles, I'm not convinced power has a damn thing to do with it. The Wii U's support for well-known shaders will probably have more impact on the software support it gets than how many floating point operations it can perform in one second.



I also think power has little (if any) to do with why Nintendo gets so little quality 3rd party support.I think the answer, or at least one of them, is that a lot of 3rd parties, especially Western ones, just don´t like Nintendo.Yes, I think it´s that simple.

At least as far as PC centric 3rd parties go, I don´t see them supporting Nintendo, just a little bit at best.I´ll be VERY, EXTREMELY surprised if games like Fallout and/or Elder Scrolls are ever released on a Nintendo system.

I see the Wii U as a platform that might have great Japanese 3rd party support, both in quantity and quality.Not so promising for Western 3rd party down the road, though, even if it looks promising now, with games like Arkham City, Mass Effect 3, etc..also releasing on the system.