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curl-6 on 08 November 2012
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Squilliam said:
z101 said:
Squilliam said:

Yes the Wii U is efficient but that does not in any way make it powerful. The next generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony are going to be both more efficiently designed and more powerful than the Wii U and this is likely in the order of 4-6 times. So from this perspective it is appropriate to say that people won't really care that the Wii U is more capable than the Xbox 360 and PS3 especially given the fact that a significant proportion of the advantage will be wasted on the new development paradigms which come about as more performance is made available as a baseline. 

All we heard from PS4 is that is using an APU10 that is hardly more powerful than the Wii U. I don't know where you get the "4-6 times more powerful" than Wii U. Perhaps it is two times more powerful (but only if PS4 really gets a great extra GPU, otherwise it will be slower than Wii U in some cases).

The PS3 was not efficiently designed, it has a great CPU (even with todays standards!), but the GPU and the overall technical design was inefficiently, so the developers could never really use the CPU power efficiently. Same goes for the Vita, great tech specs on paper, but the graphical games like Uncharted or AC:Liberation runs only with half screen resolution and look only a bit better than Revelations on 3DS, but they run only without 3D of course.

The chances of Sony releasing a console which is anything less than half a dozen times more powerful than the PS3 is slight. The chances of Sony releasing a console which is inefficient is also slight. The most likely rumours point to an APU plus a GPU which is why I said slight instead of impossible because it is still only a rumour.

They did it with the PS2 and PS3...