Digital Foundry - Nintendo Wii U review

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Mr Khan said:

thismeintiel said:
I'm glad my kids (ages 15 and 8) aren't really interested in getting the Wii U, otherwise I would have to put my foot down and say no. For the increased price, you would think the graphical results would be better, not on par with (or slightly better than in a year or two) 6 year old tech.

@ Mr Kahn

I hope that was a joke. 12GB of RAM? Right. All they would need is maybe 4 GB, a decent CPU, and a really good GPU for you to see a pretty big leap.

That's sort of the point. People are saying "Wii all over again," but, as i said, math

512/88 (the ratio of PS360 ram to Wii ram) = 5.818181 (repeating). 2 (Wii U RAM) * 5.81818181 = 11.6 something or other. So for the gap to be as big, in terms of raw numbers, you would need 12 Gigs of RAM.

So I don't think that the gap in the next generation will be as big as the one in this last one, but you don't honestly think that the ram is what made the difference do you?  Your comparison is illogical, immaterial, and nonsensical.