Some interesting Wii U facts

[pokoko]

Viper1 said:

pokoko said:
Interesting decision to pack everything into a MCM "no matter what". It sounds like console size was an important factor decided in early development. It is more than a little worrying to see everything crammed tightly into such a tiny case, though. Still, I want to believe that Nintendo took reliability very seriously.

It's going to be a hot little box, and failure rates will almost certainly go up from the Wii, but Nintendo has a good track record.

I remain somewhat concerned about that CPU and the GPU-focused design. This could ultimately be a bottleneck when the next generation kicks into full-gear. I hope they ran this design by major third-party developers during development.

You should see the internals of the Wii and GC.  I've taken both of them apart to fix for neighbors and friends.   This doesn't look any more tightly packed together than those 2 were.

This is three times the heat output of the Wii, though.  That's the part that makes the design very, very important.  Still, like I said, I think Nintendo takes build quality personally.  RRoD situations are very unlikely.  I do think failure rates will definitely go up from the Wii, though, probably to around PS3 levels.