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Hisiru on 14 August 2012
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selnor said:
Soundwave said:

There will be a pretty significant gap between the Wii U and PS4/720, what we know of the leaked PS4/720 specs show them to be well beyond the Wii U.

It may not be quite as bad as last gen, but that doesn't mean there won't be a pretty large difference.

A lot of hardcore gamers are already biased against Nintendo to begin with, lets be honest, so that doesn't help either. 

If a game like Star Wars 1313 is available on Wii U, 720/PS4 ... and 720/PS4 versions run at 1080p + better graphical effects, higher poly count, higher frame rate, etc. not many people are going to buy the Wii U version, then the excuses from developers will start ("oh the Wii U version didn't sell great, so we're pulling resources away from it"), etc. etc.

This is all so predictable, happens to Nintendo over and over (and over) again.

if the rumours are true about Wii U specs and 720 then the gap will be bigger next gen than this.

Wii U rumoured 1.5 gb ram. 720 rumoured 4gb minimum 6gb max.

Wii U rumoured 3 core 3.2ghz. 720 rumoured 12 core 3.2ghz.

Wii U maybe able to 1080p most games as native atandard. 720 1440p - 2140p.

Those figures are much broader than 360 - Wii.

But those are rumours and we will wait and see.

"Wii U rumoured 1.5 gb ram. 720 rumoured 4gb minimum 6gb max."

" Wii U rumoured 3 core 3.2ghz. 720 rumoured 12 core 3.2ghz. "

Looks like most of the ram and CPU power on the x720 is reserved for OS(windows 8)/multimedia features (like heavy multitasking etc), at least 2GBs won't be usable for games.  As for the CPU, no, the WiiU CPU isn't rumoured to be 3.2ghz, it's a lower clock CPU. The most important aspect on the CPU is the architecture and not the number of cores.

"Wii U maybe able to 1080p most games as native atandard. 720 1440p - 2140p."

Not going to happen. That's why I ask people to go read neogaf and stop making assumptions. It's VERY expensive for devs to put 1080p at 60fps for big budget games. Also, the consensus on neogaf is that we won't even have a lot of 1080p 60fps games next gen due to hardware limitations and expensive costs. And the big difference is between 480->720p->1080p, above 1080p is simply useless and the difference is very small, you can count the number of pixels if you want.

"Those figures are much broader than 360 - Wii."

No, they aren't. x360 was 20x more powerful than Wii and you had an SD->HD transition. In order to provide the same difference, x720 needs a 12TFlops GPU, which is just not going to happen. Looks like x720 will be 3~4x more powerful than WiiU so far.

I am sorry if I am being rude but you don't know what youre talking about. Even if it's 8gbs of ram for games alone + CPU focused on games it won't be even close to what we had in the Wii situation. I recommend you to do a research before you talk about it.