REAL official specs are here. Lets dissect !GPGPU! !2GB RAM!

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UncleScrooge said:

How much of that additional 1GB is used to stream to the Upad? I imagine using 2 pads simultaneously requires a lot of RAM.

And a hypothetical question: If the Wii U was an exact copy of a PS3 or Xbox360 but with 1GB of RAM for games what would the difference in performance be like? Which games would profit from it and would developers be able to let their games run in 1080p instead of 720p? (Thinking of the N64 Expansion Pack here: It doubled the RAM and most developers used that to increase resolution)

The streaming doesn't require much RAM.

Likely the huge amount is to allow for new features to be added later on without taking RAM away from devs and to allow for OS reductions like they did with the 3DS and Sony did with the PS3....which actually gives developers more RAM.

You are pretty much correct about the second part.   There'd be games in higher resolutions, higher resolution textures, better A.I., better physics, better frame rates.