superchunk said:
All three will have a GPGPU with the same basic technologies. The difference will be in raw speed and memory available. This is the same in the PC world and that is why you have a very wide range of specs for PCs and then the engines/games have the capability to turn stuff on or off depending on where your specs fall in line. I wouldn't think it will be much different here. WiiU will be a low-medium setting and PS4/neXtbox will be high while PC will be a max. Of course this also depends on many other factors like what the base platform for 3rd parties becomes and/or if they simply decide to not work with Nintendo. Also, the specs for the others are still moving. The newer specs are getting to the point where even my optimism is going away. I mean logically its hard to overcome 1GB to 6GB of RAM and a GPU that is almost 3x the GFLOPS, etc. While I'd think the scaling engines would still be fine... if the max differences between them become true, well then WiiU could very well be without AAA 3rd party titles in 2014 and beyond. |
Yeah, I am conceding that the Wii U will get it's ass handed to them (specs wise) by 720/PS4 if the rumors are true. Still I think that given the GPU and CPU(despite lower clock speed) the Wii U is still superior to the current gen systems; albeit not by much. The Wii U difference to the PS360 is becoming more clearer...the Wii U's advantage is akin to Wii vs GCN, or PSP vs 3DS, instead of PS2 to PS3. I am still happy to see Nintendo enter the HD arena with a slightly better hardware than my X360 (in some ways) but for next gen I am sure to be gaming on both 720 and Wii U for me.
