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blackstarr on 18 November 2012
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Baron said:
blackstarr said:
Baron said:
The memory is 1066 MHz max as per Samsungs spec sheet btw, so 8.5 GB/s bandwidth.... That's only 2 times faster than Wii's memory.

Seriously considering cancelling my pre-order.

Did you only buy a Wii U because of its graphics or something?


Of course not. In terms of graphics all consoles are obsolete as my PC, as it is now, will undoubtedly smash the next XBox and PS4 as well in that departement. I was, however, looking forward to playing a wide variety of 1st party AND 3rd party games on the Wii U. As opposed to my Wii which is only occasionally turned on for Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros and the like.

With this kind of memory I very much doubt 3rd parties will even bother reworking their entire games architecture just to accomodate to the Wii U's memory architecture. The Wii U could be fine if the next XBox and PS4 use similar (albeit more) memory but you and I both now they'll probably feature much faster video RAM that'll make it a lot easier for dev's. So I won't be surprised if the Wii U ends up with the shit ports and spinoffs that plaged the Wii.

I don't know if I want to buy a console just for it's 1st party games anymore.

Fair enough. I'm thinking that E3 2013 is really going to be a huge pivotal moment for Nintendo. Between now and then, we will have several more quality games on Wii U released - Rayman Legends, Wonderful 101, Pikmin 3 (can't wait sigh).. And E3 2013, we will probably see an announcement from Microsoft about their new console, so we will really see if Wii U can hold up with that announcement.
Not to mention if Nintendo has some great games announced for Wii U at E3 2013, it'll give some points to Nintendo. (SSB U? Zelda or Mario? Whatever Retro is working on?)