By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
dahuman on 15 September 2012
Edit Thread
S.T.A.G.E. said:
dahuman said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
dahuman said:
sub-zero-TM said:
Yeah it's cool not bad but i am not bying it, Wii U is hardly a next gen console Wii U is this gen console but i might buy it if you can play Wii games on it.


Once the Wii U comes out, Wii, 360 and PS3 will all be considered last gen in timeline perspective. You can play Wii games on it btw, just not GC games.

.....If you've seen the new Unreal Engine and the Fox Engine, what the Wii U has shown is far from next gen.

I can always bring up the PC argument and blow that completely out the water though, console gen is usually based on time line and not the technology behind it because PC is so much more superior on a graphical scale.


You could try. The PC isn't a console. The next gen engines are being run on PC's which is giving us a visual of what we can expect next gen on consoles. You know very well the very risky titles will be created with highest resolutions on PC but will be marketed more towards the console crowd as thats where the bulk of the profit will come from. New gens come with a chance for new gems.

I don't know man, Valve is definitely up to something, and no, PC is not a console, consoles are just trying more to become like a PC or tablet, it's a constant catch up game, and if it weren't for PC, DD and Microtransaction would still be untested water and you'd have seen another game industry crash without the PC techs advancing.

Anyhow, the UE4 and FOX engines actually don't mean much, Wii U is more current gen graphics considering that it doesn't use DX11 so the tessellation unit won't be depended on that particular API(DX10.1 vs 11 is really not a whole lot of difference other than the tessellation anyways, and the AMD 7 series does have the unit built in that doesn't follow the DX11 standard much like the 360, the engines would just require code tweaking) , while the 360 and PS3 are last gen graphics based on DX9 if you count actual graphical power, as far as graphical specs go, Wii U tech is actually very much on modern PC terms and more powerful than some budget gaming PCs considering consoles don't have like a million background tasks, though more ram for games wouldn't hurt, I'm not so sold on the 1GB only for games part, 1GB for OS is kinda ridiculously big for a console lol, hopefully they optimize the OS and give more to games later down the road.