Black Ops 2 Launch Guide (Wii U 720p 60fps, 360/ps3 SUB-HD)

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TheBardsSong said:

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zarx said:

TheBardsSong said:
Is this confirmed or just speculation?

The Wii U stuff? 

Just speculation, a rep said the Wii U version was finally "true HD" on a nintendo platform and that it would be 60fps (just like they harp on about X360 and PS3 being 60fps). Fanboys took that too mean that Wii U version was 1080p native, a rep eventually confirmed that it was not 1080p so now people are assuming that it's 720p. 

That may be proved false later 

Yeah, pretty much what I gathered from everything said. I think people are giving both the Wii U and Activision too much credit.

Activision I can understand, but surely it's not asking much of a system with 2GB of RAM and a more modern GPU with more fillrate and features than its competitors to produce a PS3/360 game at 720p/60fps?

We'll see. I hear the Wii U still has a disadvantage in CPU versus the 360/PS3, I wonder how much of an importance that will play. I honestly don't understand my tech stuff too much, but I believe the SNES was in a similar position versus the Genesis. It was capable of producing much better visuals but struggled to run action-heavy games like SHMUPs without some considerable frame drops.

I'm not a tech wiz either, but as I understand it, screen resolution is  memory/GPU/bandwidth issue and doesn't affect the CPU.

Also, the Wii U CPU doesn't need to do as much work as the PS3 and 360 CPUs because more tasks are, or at least can be, handled by the GPU instead.