CNN Money Wii U Parts Price Estimate

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ninjablade said:

cbarroso09 said:
Wii U can be between PS4 and last gen but it is nothing to sneez about. It is a unique piece of tech, but not as hard to program as the Cell architecture.

it's really not though, far from it, it would need gpu with aleast 700-800 gflops, and and much better ram speed, atleast comparable to 720.

FLOPS aren't everything. Also, the RAM speed is not as low as people think (look up NotEnoughShader Wii-U Memory Story), and even if it was, Wii U has a large cache of eDRAM to use. And a third of the GPU is not even a known quantity. Not to mention CPU benchmarks put Expresso at comparable performance to Bobcat (predecessor to Jaguar, and the jump between the two is small, something like 10%-20%).

 

No one knows how the Wii U it fits between PS360 and the PS3. If it was as easy as reading the specs, Xbox would of blown the Gamecube away, and third party games would be running better on the PS3.

 

Also, Chipworks, the company who took pictures of the Latte die, said to add $60.