Digital Foundry - Nintendo Wii U review

[VGKing]

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.

It' s not that simple....its not just about the amount of RAM, its about the speed of it and other stuff I couldn't really explalin.
Plus you have to take into account the CPU and GPU. There are leaks that suggest the PS4 will be using an APU, so it won't be directly comparable with the Wii U in that front. GPU will be hard to directly compare to since it will work together with the integrated one in the APU.