Nintendo Wii U Design Focused on Memory Efficiency

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Kaizar said:

Scoobes said:

Kaizar said:

Well, those 3rd parties make their engines differently from almost all others.

For instance; Metro fully relies on the CPU only for its games, the Metro engine does not use neither GPU nor RAM for any & all of their games, but is made for modern graphics, LOL. So to run Metro at 100% capacity, you would need next Gen PCs. It's clearly an Engine made by people who know the littlest about how video games run since the 1990'sfor crying out loud.

 

Long story short, you choose bad 3rd party engines for your example, especially Metro, which is the most ignorant engine made in the 21st Century that I can think of.

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What are you talking about? How can any modern game not use GPU or RAM? What you said is completely false. And there are plenty of games that still require a decent CPU and are more CPU limited than GPU limited.

It's how the Enigne makes the game run, like Sumo on PS Vita & Home Consoles which makes their version only run at a maximum of 30 fps, well the Wii U has a better frame rate on Sumo dispite displaying 2 different video images at once for its own version of the game.

Luckily the 3DS version of "Sonic Racing" runs at a refresh rate of 180 (60 fps per image), so it has the best version of Sonic & all stars racing transformed.

So engines can easily ruin a game's ability to run on a system.

And Metro is the worst game ENGINE to have a game run on.

 

Heres another example, Sumo engine will give Nintendo an advantage on video games with its Engine, but Metro will give PS3 & 360 an advantage instead. (but the PS3 & 360 needs its more newer firmware to have a more powerful CPU, then the Wii U)

I'm not sure why that makes their engine design dated. It's just different because it was designed around hardware prior to the WiiU, and it's actually quite GPU intesive too with numerous different lighting and real-time effects as well as tessellation. The engine is designed to take full advantage of powerful hardware (latest GPU tech and multi-core CPUs), not just pure CPU power. Regardless, plenty of developers still heavily use the CPU and the GPU alone cannot make up for a weaker CPU (GPGPU algorithms are still not ready for most developers to readily transfer code except for a few cases like physics).

If they are correct, this could seriously restrict other CPU heavy multiplatform games on WiiU like the majority of WRPGs, nearly all RTS games and a good number of others such as Battlefield 3 (e.g. Frostbite 2 engine is fairly CPU limited- http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18459152).