Wii U vs PS4 vs Xbox One FULL SPECS (January 24, 2014)

[DanneSandin]

superchunk said:

DanneSandin said:

But just because it's not like Wii vs PS360 doesn't mean it's good... It's weird how Nintendo fans seem to accept things like that, "oh well, at least it won't be the same gap as with the Wii..." It doesn't make it any less terrible...

But its not wierd, there's a significant difference.

Wii was not only more than ~10x lower in raw power than PS360, it was also missing specific technical features and that made it fundementally costly for devs to create special engines for one platform.

WiiU is not that. Which is very good. It is no more than 3-4x lower (at this point) in raw power and shares all the same technical features, shaders, etc. Now, its not going to require a whole different engine. Just a factor of scalability.

So yes I accept WiiU is not as powerful as the rest, but at this point its very good that it should have no technical reason to not be ported AAA 3rd party games. Now there is still the idea of Rols conspiracy of everyone against Nintendo anyways, so maybe it won't matter. But its something that is good now.

Its certainly not terrible. Most people wouldn't even notice a difference in a 1080p vs 720p game or 30fps vs 60fps.. so long as the game was otherwise identical plus the off TV play or gamepad extra stuff is awesome.

Yeah, I guess all of that is true... But it feels weird to be happy with something because it's not 10x less powerful...