| Played_Out said: @ Stever89 You have some confusion over the relative power of various consoles that seems to stem from a comparison of CPU clock-speeds. The N64 had a CPU clocked at 3x that of the PS1, but to say it was 3x as powerful is misleading. Likewise, the Xbox CPU was clocked at 3x the speed of the PS2 (and the GC 2x) but can only really claim to < 50% more powerful as it used a more primitive CPU architecture. On the other hand, the PS3 and 360 are both more than 5x as powerful as the Wii, and you are wrong to suggest that the Wii CPU core is "better". Although Nintendo have been fairly secretive about the Wii's CPU, it is quite clear that there are no situations in which the Wii would outperform a single core of the PS3 or 360. The difference in power between them is massive. There has never been anywhere near this kind of disparity in previous console generations. Of course, your conclusion that the wii is easily powerful enough to do head-tracking is correct, as it is not a processor-intensive task. |
I did say that these weren't simply the only thing that makes the specs. And since I don't know the site that I read the thing about the cores, nor can I really say how accurate that site is, I won't try to argue about one core beating the Wiis CPU. I probably stated what I was trying to say wrong in any case. I can't comment on the architecture of the PS3, 360, or the Wii, so I can't say if any one is any better than the other or previous consoles, but you say that the PS3/360 are 5x more powerful than the Wii when only looking at those specs, but the N64 wasn't 3x as powerful as the PS, we just cannot say. In any case, I really wasn't trying to prove that the Wii was in any way better performance wise than the PS3/360, and it's not really worth arguing/discussing. It was really late when I wrote that and I was trying to think while also celebrating the Pats demise in the SB, and when I read that the Wii might not be able to handle it, and maybe only a Wii2 would be able to do such a thing, I just tried to prove how the Wii, though not as powerful as the other two current gen consoles, isn't something that should just be ignored because it can't produce HD graphics.
