How will the Wii U fit games on the PS4, if the PS4 will have 7GB RAM available?

[Viper1]

Miguel_Zorro said:

Viper1 said:

Miguel_Zorro said:

I'm legitimately interested in reading this.  I can't promise that I won't misunderstand it, but I pledge to not ignore it or quote an irrelevant portion.

When you say that the Wii U could run PS4 games, do you mean with similar performance?

Not likely with similar performance unless the PS4 game in question is a small scope title.   It's also going to vary depending on the game and game engine (how each utilizes the consoles).

However, I won't go into any details at this time, I can say that any title that is expressesly developed with the PS4 in mind first ported to the Wii U would require reduction to the displayed graphics and possibly other facets via means similar to how PC games are toned down to run accordingly on lower spec PC's.   It's still very much the same game just with reduced resolution, frame rate, on screen enemies, physics, shader operations, etc...

Is it fair to say that it might be something like this? (It's difficult to see much over Youtube).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOmpDxJVv9w

Or this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bHIERf5YLw

No, the Wii U to PS4 version would like much closer than the Wii to PS3 versions of games.

The Wii used a single core CPU (that ran at 1/5th the speed) and a fixed function graphics pipeline that could not do modern shaders.    That's on top of the huge difference in performance already.    The gulf in performance and other important facets will not be the same this time.

Games from PS3 down to Wii had to be completely redeveloped.    Games from PS4 to Wii U can be scaled.

goopy20 said:

It can't lol. Hell it can barely run current gen games, hence MGS5, GTA5 etc not coming out for the Wii-U. Forget scaling down... next gen 80% of the big profile games will run on the Unreal 4 engine, which Epic already said, wont even work on the Wii-u...

The percentage of wrong information to total number of words written is incredible.