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| Miguel_Zorro said: I can't think of a reason that they wouldn't release for the Wii U. Is the Wii U difficult to develop for? I'm not very familiar with its architecture. |
It uses a very different architecture to the PS3 and 360.
Compared to them, it's CPU is clocked lower, (1.2GHz vs 3.2GHz) has weaker SIMD, and has fewer threads, but compensates with more L2 cache, (3MB vs 1MB on 360) along with a shorter pipeline which means it suffers less from performance-robbing pipeline bubbles, a dedicated audio chip to handle sound and free up CPU resources, and the ability to execute more instructions per cycle.
It's GPU is so unconventional in its design that even after getting detailed photos, the tech-heads of the internet still can't figure it out. Criterion, a very skilled dev team, said the GPU was a "a real struggle" to work with, even though they eventually squeezed performance out of it that surpassed PS3 and 360.
So yes, it's difficult to develop for.
