What’s inside Durango’s Alpha kit?

[selnor]

CCFanboy said:

BenVTrigger said:
Kinect 2.0 is completly optional people.

If a developer wants to make full use of the raw power of the console it doesnt matter how much power Kinect requires, as they dont even have to touch Kinect if they dont want to

I could be wrong but wouldn't they dedicate part of the cpu to kinect? Otherwise the cpu will divide resources and that would just complicate matters. It would be easier to dedicate at least one core to it. Yes it give devs less to work with but if still sounds powerful for a leap even with several cores dedicated to other things like multimedia features. It depends on what cpu they are using though.

@ selnor I like your crystal ball buddy but third parties are driven by money and not power. You tend to forget that however powerful these systems are nintendo's games are more powerful. Mario sets the world on fire faster than the processor in this. If nobody buys the system then the tech in this will be like the tech currently in vita right now. Sitting there..... wasting potential..... hoping people use it...... flexing its muscles....... and being given the short end of the stick as well. We simply don't know enough about anything at all. It all comes down to how the public react.

So if they are driven by money is that why when the Wii was destroyig the 360 and PS3 in sales, the wii got no decent third party games?

No it was because it was underpowered and would require games to look like arse to be on the wii to. Effectively having 2 completely different teams making the same game with completely different engines.

I can see that a console with 1gb ram available for games ( Wii U ) against a console with 8 gb ram ( Even if 6 is available for games ) will be HUGELY underpowered and not be capable of games anywhere near the visuals etc that the other is. Especially if the GPU is top of the range 7 series, and an 8 core CPU.

Ram is more of a key than you may think. As its the sole thing Crytek, Epic, ID, Ubisoft etc have all been complaining about in PS3 and 360 for 2 years now.

Yes I predict that the Wii U as some nice ports in 2012, but by 2014-2015 will not have the franchises it needs again for people who give a damn about sweeping stories and epic visuals.

I said right at the off, the Wii U is underpowered with the specs all along. And that it wont have the games next gen I care about. So I wont be adopting yet again another Nintendo console.

Shame because the N64 was a beast and my faveourite balanced console of all time.