Predicting the Next-Gen: The Future of PS4 and X3ox

[Squilliam]

DanneSandin said:

Squilliam said:

The problem is that any modern X86 core will absolutely smoke the Wii U CPU and the Wii U looks like the odd one out in terms of CPU performance. It'll be OK if either the PS4/Xbox 3 use only say 4 Jaguar cores from AMD at say 1.8Ghz. However if they use say 8 of them then it might cause problems for porting games to the Wii U because whilst it is easy to strip graphics detail back it isn't very easy to change the core program.

Well,. I know nothing of tech so I'm just gonna go a head and trust you on this. I wouldn't mind if Wii U got lower graphics compared to PS720, but if the core game play is effected, like you suggest, we'll have another Wii situation and I'll make a "Nintendo betrayed us" thread.

If there is a large gap a lot of developers may simply fork off their old engine design and use that for the Wii U whilst developing entirely new engines for the next generation Xbox and Playstation consoles, kind of what happened with the PS2 games getting ported to the Wii.