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

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Kynes said:

lilbroex said:

Kynes said:

I have been paying attention to gaming laptops, as I have one. They are harvested, underclocked and undervolted chips, only that. They are more efficient than desktop chips as power consumption increases quadratically with the voltage, and you can approximate it to a lineal increase with the speed. Laptop parts aren't different than desktop parts, at all, unless you are talking of the underpowered Intel Atom and things like that.

Since you understand that, you should also understand that a game console is not  a desktop...

XBox360 and PS3 aren't desktops, too.

The slim 360 is scaled down a decent amount from the original model... and doesn't suffer from the overheating problem to boot.

Nobody is expecting high-end PC tower capabilities from WiiU, but look at the performance from tablets or the Vita relative to their size.

Also consider that the WiiU casing is certainly not as small as the 2006 Wii (who's tech could be easily be made at a handheld size today).