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

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Viper1 said:

pezus said:

This is exactly why we should see more of a difference in effects, anti-aliasing and performance from the Wii U. Wii U doesn't have to render more pixels, it's the same amount of pixels as the PS3/360 which means everything else should increase way more than usually. But we aren't seeing it.

I think the problem is most games are direct ports and/or are focusing on input device.   All those early X360 games you have mentioned had their own development team and they focused on pushing the graphics.

Naturally, we won't see a big of a jump from Xbox to X360 with current gen to Wii U simply because diminsihign returns is a factor and the Wii U isn't mean to be as big of a jump.   But a jump does exist.   We simply aren't seeing it because everything is either a direct port or a Wii to Wii U conversion....or simply not designed to be a graphics showcase.

 

When you use the same assets and run largely the exact same code, you can't expect new shaders to simply show up out of nowhere.

So what you're saying is that devolopers are generally using game engines meant for the PS3/360? I can see that. As for Nintendo, I don't know. Pikmin 3 started as a Wii game, so I don't expect much. Maybe we have to wait for EAD Tokyo's next game to see what the Wii U has in store. After all, it is Nintendo's go-to graphics studio.