Wii U specs are surprising, says Sonic developer, specifically the GPU and memory

[teigaga]

HappySqurriel said:

teigaga said:

Yeah, I should know this. Don't know why I included the p (480p) at the end as well, that made zero sense lol. Regardless the same priciple applies, a 8192x8192 texture of pure black is no more demanding then a 2x2 texture of black.

Actually, no ...

The net result on the image may be the same, but the larger texture would eat up far more memory and have a dramatically higher impact on the bus than the smaller texture. To render the same image using both textures you would see a substantial downgrade in performance using the larger texture.

Yeah, I think I confused myself.  I was thinking of smaller 2x2 sized image scaled/stretched to the size of that a higher res. Obviously being a block colour, when stetched it would look identical to the texture native to the higher resolution but still remain the same in file size. Just pretend the last few comments were never made : D