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Aquietguy on 30 June 2013
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Miguel_Zorro said:
anthony64641 said:



2. The Specs of the Wii U are better than the PS3, 360, Wii, and every other home console to date.

While not the biggest leap in specs, the Wii U is stronger than the PS3 and 360. The Wii U has more ram, can run games in 1080p/60 FPS, and already has games that look just as good or better than their PS3/360 counterparts, Need for speed most wanted and Call of Duty Black Ops 2 are all good examples of this. The Wii U Zelda Demo looked better than a majority of the PS3 and 360 games out in the market and it wasn’t even finished. As developers get a hang of the system the graphics will get better and better. A lot of gamers feel the next generation is going to be just like this generation with the Wii being vastly underpowered. The PS3 and 360 were both roughly 20x more powerful than the PS2 and Xbox 1. Does anybody really think the PS4 and 720 are going to be 20x more powerful than the PS3 and 360? Cause that’s the kind of power those systems need to blow the Wii U out of the water, relative to last generation at at least. Microsoft is more likely to go on the cheaper side because of Kinect and Sony doesn’t want a repeat of the PS3 launch with a $600 price tag. However, I do feel Sony will have the strongest system next generation.

You know the specs for the Xbox One and the PS4 are already public, right?

If the WiiU was truly next generation, you wouldn't have to create threads to try to convince people that it's a next generation console.

Look at the comparison.  It's not even close. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(eighth_generation)

A few facts...

The system bandwidth of the PS4 is 176 GB/s.  For the XBoxOne, it's 68.3 GB/s.  For the WiiU/PS3/360, it's 12.8 GB/s, 22.4 GB/s, and 21.6 GB/s

RAM - PS4/XBox One/Wii U/PS3/360 = 8GB GDDR5, 8GB DDR3, 2GB DDR3,512MB combination, 512MB GDDR3 +10MB EDRAM. The absolute gap between the PS4 and the WiiU is larger than the gap between the WiiU and the PS3.  On a ratio basis, they're the same at 4x.

I could go on, but it's not about the specs for the Wii U.  People who want to play Nintendo franchises will buy it anyways.  But from a technology perspective, it's halfway between the PS3/360 and the PS4/X1.

Like wise, if the Wii U wasn't next gen haters wouldn't have to keep saying that it isn't. But you missed the whole point. What anthony was saying is that the gap between the U and the PS4/X1 won't be nearly as big as the gap between the Wii and PS360. It's at the least 2x that of the PS360 and Nintendo says its more powerful than it's given credit for.