New Monolith Soft Game - Codenamed "X" - In-game footage!

[DanneSandin]

Viper1 said:

DanneSandin said:

Yes, I guess that we won't see the same sort of gap since Wii U have much newer technology to the upcoming PS720, than what Wii had to PS360, but all signs are pointing to the fact that PS720 will be a whole deal more powerful. There's just nu way denying that. 2gig RAM vs 4-8?! 3 cores vs 8? Question is if 3rd party games will be able to run smoothly on Wii U this gen, or if we'll get crippled versions yet again, or if 3rd parties simply just won't bother. This is troubling even if we won't see a Wii/PS360 situation again.

Well, let's look at something like DC vs PS2 vs GC vs Xbox.

CPU:
DC - 200 Mhz
PS2 - 294 Mhz
GC - 485 Mhz
Xbox -733 Mhz

RAM:
DC - 34 MB (16 MB Main, 8 MB video, 2 MB audio)
PS2 - 38 MB (32 MB main, 4 MB video, 2 MB audio)
GC - 43 MB (32 MB main [24 MB 1T-SRAM and 16 Mb DRAM], 3 MB 1T-SRAM embedded video )
Xbox - 64 MB (unified RAM)

GFLOPS:
DC - 1.4
PS2 - 6.2
GC -10.6
Xbox - 83 (inflated...real world is about 23)

Take a good look at those GFLOPS ratings.   That PS2 to Xbox rating gap looks pretty close to what we're looking at between Wii U and Orbis/Durango (~600 GFLOPS to ~1.8 TFLOPS respectively).  

Game ports won't be as much of a problem going from Orbis/Durango to Wii U as it was from PS3/X360 to Wii.  First off, the architectural difference was a massive problem to overcome for the game engines.  They were designed for multicore CPU's and programmable shader GPU's.   That issue will no longer exist.  That alone was the single largest barrier for Wii getting mutliplatform titles.

It should also be noted that the new consoles are also expected to clocked much lower than the PS3/X360. 1.8 Ghz range rather than the 3.2 Ghz clocks of the current consoles.   That measn the trouble that Tecmo Koei had with the low clocks of the Wii U will have to be taken into consideration for the new consoles too.  It doesn't matter how many cores you have if your game engine is clock speed dependant.   That helps the Wii U since the new game engines will be geared more towards the Wii U's clock speed instead of the X360 and PS3's.

Damn, xbox was already beating back then! As far as I understood it, PS720 will be aching more to a PC (dunno if that's the components or the architecture), so how will that effect Wii U? I understand that Wii U won't suffer from the same barriers, but doesn't it have an enhanced Wii GPU? Or was it a CPU? Wouldn't that be kind of a trouble? And it's really lacking RAM when compared to PS720... Now, I don't have any clue how all of this will play out, but surely that has to mean there will be some differences?