Wii U graphics power finally revealed - "we can now finally rule out any next-gen pretensions for the Wii U"

[VGKing]

superchunk said:

Naraku_Diabolos said:

I thought I read before that the Wii U supposedly had the Radeon HD 6xxx series GPU. Or is that wrong now and it's supposedly the HD 4xxx?

I really can care less about all this. To me, it's just the games and the gameplay. I love the system regardless of it's supposed limitations. I wouldn't trade it for anything else.

 Rumors mostly showed R700 series which is a HD4XXX GPU, but a few others mentioned a variant of HD6XXX GPU.

Now with these breakdowns some are throwing variosu HD4XXX and HD5XXX GPUs as a comparison to the actually heavily customized chip that in reality doesn't fit into any of the known AMD series.

Emphasis on the "heavily custumized" part. This is actually a negative thing as it makes porting much harder and with 3rd parties, it won't be worth the effort. The PS3 had a hard time getting ports, but those games proved to have a huge audience and they sold well on it, the same can't be said for Wii U.