Supposedly, Final WiiU Specs from VGLeaks

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zarx said:

curl-6 said:
I'm still of the opinion that "three Broadways" outs this as fake.

Why in the world would they beef up a CPU based on 1990s technology when it would be much simpler to just to use a modern one, even if it's not the most powerful one money can buy? (Easy backwards compatibility I suppose, but really, doesn't seem worth it) It's like tying three horses together and feeding them steroids instead of just buying a damn car.

Well to be fair it says 3 "enhanced Broadway" cores, enhanced could mean anything including TBH including adding some Power 7 tech to it. Not to say it is real, but IBM did say that it was a custom CPU with tech from Whatson/Power 7. It could be that Nintendo got IBM to create a custom CPU derived from Power 7 but with Broadway feature parity for hardware backwards compatability. If the enhanced Broadway stuff is tru I don't think it would literally mean 3 Broadway cores. 

I guy on GAF who had aparently been mod verified as having access to a Wii U dev kitt said that the term "enhanced Broadway" was used in technical documents from Nintendo. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=41438117&postcount=195

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=41437121&postcount=186

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=36333855&postcount=8989

Could it still be considered a Broadway, enhanced or not, if they aded POWER 7 tech to it? I mean, we're talking about a chip effectively built in 1998 here. Even with 3, wouldn't you have to virtually rebuild it to get it to run a game like Assassin's Creed 3? To stick with the three horses analogy, no matter how many steroids you feed them, they couldn't tow a semitrailer.