Wii U's GPGPU Squashes Xbox 360, PS3; Capable Of DirectX 11 Equivalent Graphics

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pezus said:

HappySqurriel said:

pezus said:

Screenshot comparisons vs. Xbox games show obvious improvements though, even the launch games. Same with PS3, it was an obvious jump 

I would say that is open to some debate ...

If you were to take the best looking XBox games (Black for example) and do a comparison against the XBox 360 launch line-up the XBox 360 games would only look a bit better. This isn't an unusual problem for systems released before their competition because developers are often producing games on a tight budget with a strict deadline while working on hardware they don't fully understand while using tools that have yet to be updated; and their games are being compared against the bigest budget games of the previous generation that were developed by the best teams with long development timelines on mature tools by programmers who have been working on the platform for many years (and fully understand it).

Even so, only looking at cross generation multiplatform games (Xbox and 360 games like Call of Duty 3) the difference is obvious. I'd expect the same for next cross-gen launch games as well, but we're not seeing it from the Wii U.

You mean games like Gun?

Call of Duty 3 demonstrated dramatic improvements because it was built from the ground up for the XBox 360, PS3 and PC using more mature tools that were updated after Call of Duty 2 was already under development.