Iwata Asks: Wii U (Hardware Devs + A look Inside the Wii U hardware)

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Soundwave said:

Beef up the CPU/GPU. I know power efficiency is a big deal, but really would it be so bad if the console sucked 60W versus 35W? If they had done that they probably could've gone with more horsepower under the hood and flat out destroyed the PS3/360 without question.

I think Nintendo is too extreme with emphasizing the power requirements. Even if it is a big deal, you can always scale the power consumption down with later models.

No, it wouldn't because the devs would still be lazy and release pretty much straight port, some without optimizations. Also, even if the games showed tremendous leap, which they already have(Garden Demo, Zelda tech demo, Wonderful 101) people would still outright deny the improvements and says its not better than their preferred console while throwing calls to consoles that don't exist yet.