Some interesting Wii U facts

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pezus said:

HappySqurriel said:

pezus said:

 

2. Iwata: “No matter how great the numbers are that you can boast, can you only draw that out under certain conditions, or can you actually draw out its performance consistently when you use it? Insisting on the latter way of thinking has always been at the root of hardware and system development at Nintendo.

Come again?

Essentially, he is saying that theoritical peak performance is not what they're focused on; they wanted to have strong real-world performance with consistent throughput.

So why aren't they showing us this consistent throughput? I keep getting told the graphics will see major jump in future games, but if it's so easy and consistent why isn't the jump happening right away?

He never said it was easy, Iwata's saying it's just a consistent performance. In fact based on this it looks like a console that it's kinda hard to develop for, which it's certainly bad news.