| Squilliam said:
We already have plenty of facts to work with. The die shots have been released, we know what process nodes they were made with and we know the memory bandwidth. I trust him and that is all I will say. |
We also know that the Wii U is getting (at least) similar performance on ports of games while rendering to a second screen ...
For the Wii U to be only 90% as powerful as the PS3 you're basically saying that developers have already gotten better performance out of the Wii U on early low budget ports by external developers than they have gotten out of the PS3 after 6 years of focused development by the best studios in the world.
Your friend is obviously speaking from a position of ignorance or bias.
I'm not saying the Wii U is a generational leap over the PS3, but I doubt the PS3 could match the performance the Wii U has already demonstrated; and I think it would be foolish to argue that the Wii U is less powerful than the PS3.
With that said, it is entirely possible that the Wii's CPU doesn't perform as well as the Cell processor on synthetic benchmarks but that doesn't mean that the Wii U is less powerful in general.
