My thoughts on WiiU and the 8th gen including Sony and MS (better than any editorial)

[DanneSandin]

Scoobes said:

DanneSandin said:

Scoobes said:

DanneSandin said:
I think it all depends on how powerful next gen consoles will be, but there is no doubt (excluding dellusional Sony fan bo.... Loyalists) that PS4 and Sony is between a rock and a hard place - and those would be WiiU and x3ox. WiiU will be the weakest, but considering sonys weak finances the PS4 can't afford to be too expansive. This will result in PS4 being similar to WiiU in power, but slightly stronger. The x3ox on the other hand could be that beast of a console everyone is expecting. Why? MS's got the money. But this would also mean that 3rd party developers won't utilize x3ox full power since they're gonna port those games over from WiiStation.

I think a lot of people are underestimating the costs of the tablet controller and how that money can be put back into the consoles silicon.

Without the money needed for the unconventional controller, Sony can put a bit more investment into the RAM, CPU or GPU whilst still keeping the costs down.

oh, i have no doubt about that ps4 will have more of everything, the question is though, will it pack enough of a punch so that wii u wont be getting good ports? the wii got gimped bastard versions, but will wii u suffer the same fate? or will it only have less impressive graphics?

I think Nintendo have been a bit more intelligent with the WiiU so it should still get half-decent ports regardless of power. They've got a decent enough GPU with modern shader architecture that will make porting a bit easier. If the Wii had a GPU with programmable shaders then I think we would have seen more ports even with the mass power differences.

The main question will be if the CPU will be enough for said ports (this will effect certain genres more than others) or if the RAM will not detrimentally affect RAM heavy games that the likes of Bethesda will want to make. We've already had the lead programmer of 4A complain about the WiiU CPU and that's about game being developed for 360/PS3.

So I think it will depend on the developer and the way they set their engine up but it'll probably require developers a lot of work to port games to WiiU if rumours about the other consoles are to be believed. PS4 and Next Xbox on the other hand will likely share ports fairly easily if the X86 and RAM rumours prove to be true. 

Yeah, I have my reservations regarding ports on WIi U... I've heard bad things, and I've heard that those bad things are misunderstood...