cunger said:
Squilliam said:
cunger said:
Squilliam said:
The Wii U is designed to run games at 60FPS given that is Nintendo's target and this game also targets 60FPS. The game itself is quite a good match to what the Wii U is capable of. In the end however this all doesn't matter given the fact that the next gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft are considerably more powerful again. |
More powerfull but will have nowhere near the same type of advantage as they had over the original wii. The main benifit will come from the ability to have brilliant graphics and stable performance in stereo 3d but he wiiu will hang in there in 2d performance for the majority of Nintendo's 6 year lifecylce.
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The Wii U is more efficient than current generation consoles yes; however it isn't outright a performance beast. Having modern shaders and 32MB of embedded memory makes it a good fit for a game which targets 60FPS as these are simply extensions of the advantages the Xbox 360 GPU bought to the table which allowed it great performance next to the PS3. When the next generation of consoles from Sony and Microsoft are out noone will care about how the Wii U outperforms the Xbox 360 and PS3 for the same reason that the idea that the Wii was more powerful than the Xbox gained little traction, if you wanted the performance you're already looking elsewhere.
When the developers finally have to start tapping the GPU to make up for the lack of performance in the CPU which is absolutely tiny to run next generation titles, people will start calling them lazy. The performance isn't free, if you take it from rendering then you won't have nearly as pretty a picture as you'd expect.
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The difference here is that Sony and Microsoft are not making a massive leap like last time. Wow in 2013 the ps4 will launch with a graphics card from 2011. And secondly the wii was not more powerfull than the original xbox. It was overall slightly less. The Wiiu is twice as powerfull overall than the original xbox. It 100% will not be the same situation. Esspecially when you factor in that the Wiiu has a decent online service and dual anolog based controllers with all the cross platform buttons.
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The rumours point to Sea Islands based consoles which is the upcoming 2013 AMD graphics architecture along with their very good low power Jaguar cores and 8GB of RAM for Durango but less is known about Orbis (PS4). It would have been 7 years and 8 years respectively between console generations for the PS4/Xbox next so it isn't hard to fathom that if they're budgeting twice the cost of the Wii U internal hardware at $399 for a base console on a completely newer process node without the constraints of fitting it into such a small box that the overall console won't be a significant leap over the current generations.
I never claimed anything significant about how the 3rd parties will support the Wii U so why do you infer that I did?
