oniyide said:
Why is it so hard to imagine that some people dont like Ninty games?? Its ok not to like them and it being completly unmalicious. People dont understand how its "much" more powerful than PS360, whose fault is that, thats up to Ninty to do or not do and they are not going to do that with NSMBWu. YOu can quote specs till you are blue in the face but in the real world very little care, its about showing not telling and be honest is there any game being released in the first two months for Wii U that looks "much" better than anything of PS360?? |
This is a legitimate complaint. Nintendo was mum on Wii specs because next to PS360 it couldn't hope to compare. They weren't worried about the specs because the strategy was for playstyle.
This time around though, if they're truly going for the hardcore, they need to hype up their specs. Even if you have to make up something like "blast processing" to get the hype train rolling, they need to do it. Truth is, we've hit a mhz limit on most chips (we've had 2.5-3.5 ghz chips for years now), so there's no number that nintendo will be able to point to and say "this is clearly better because of this number our system does compared to their system". WiiU chips likely run at the same clock speeds as PS360, but the improvements are all under the hood. Much like how a current gen intel i series at 2.4 ghz blows away a pentium 4 at 2.4 ghz. Mhz mean less and less.
So its difficult for nintendo to show in a soundbyte that their system is jacked up. But 7 years of technology and processor design is nothing to turn your nose up at. Their chip is a watson, the family of IBM's most powerful chips, and among the most powerful chips on the planet.
You'll see starwars 1313 level graphics on the WiiU. You'll see UE4. WiiU is nothing to scoff at. There's just nothing to show yet that demonstrates that well. ZombiU is a game designed for current gen. As is Trine 2 (which looks beautiful) and Rayman Legends. Give it a little while. By the time PS4 and Xbox3 come around, you'll see that WiiU is indeed a next gen machine.
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