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Proxy-Pie on 21 July 2013
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farlaff said:
Egann said:
The GPU is enough to render both the TV screen and the gamepad in 1080p 60 FPS without being optimized. This means the PS4 and XB1 are massive hardware overkill. Their biggest advantages over the Wii U isn't their power, but that no developer will ever have to optimize the game's code. My gut is that the PS4 and XB1 will see some horribly written code relying on the hardware's power to run it by brute force. Only third party developers with a gigantic reputation for optimizing to hardware will even bother.

Which basically means Square Enix and nobody else.

It's the old axiom "what Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away" although in this case, Microsoft and Sony are doing the giving, and EA and Epic are doing the taking away.

The only question left on the table is if 2 GB of RAM is enough. We seem to have reasonably established the GPU and CPU are sufficient. Still, if the Wii U can manage with that meager GPU to run two screens at full power, chances are that 2 GB is also "enough."

I like this post. It reflects many things I 've been wondering about. :) But talking memory issues, remember when the 64 got the Memory Pack that produced so good visuals in, say, Star Wars Pod Racer (great game with awful AI)? As you said, the greater difference in the 3 consoles seems to be RAM. Is there any possibility Nintendo can upgrade the U's memory?

I relate this comment to a certain scenario I had in the past. I had (still have) a PC with pretty good specs, the only problem was the RAM, I only had 4 GB and I was working my ass off saving money for this University I was going to, so I couldn't afford to upgrade, but I've looked on some site once about uses for old USB flashdrives now that I had lots laying around. and I found out that you can use a feature called ReadyBoost on Windows Vista/7 that uses the USB flashdrives memory as RAM, so I plugged in my old 4 GB Flash Drive, and to this day I'm running games fine. maybe they could do something similar to the Wii U with an 8/16 GB SD Card? now that I think about it, they did have a Memory Pak for the N64 didn't they?