Shin'en: If you can't make great looking games on Wii U, it's not the hardware's fault

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Shamelessly stolen from Gonintendo.

"The Wii U eDRAM has a similar function as the eDRAM in the XBOX360. You put your GPU buffers there for fast access. On Wii U it is just much more available than on XBOX360, which means you can render faster because all of your buffers can reside in this very fast RAM. On Wii U the eDRAM is available to the GPU and CPU. So you can also use it very efficiently to speed up your application.

Theoretical RAM bandwidth in a system doesn’t tell you too much because GPU caching will hide a lot of this latency. Bandwidth is mostly an issue for the GPU if you make scattered reads around the memory. This is never a good idea for good performance.

I can’t detail the Wii U GPU but remember it’s a GPGPU. So you are lifted from most limits you had on previous consoles. I think that if you have problems making a great looking game on Wii U then it’s not a problem of the hardware."

- Manfred Linzner, Shin'en Multimedia

http://hdwarriors.com/why-the-wii-u-is-probably-more-capable-than-you-think-it-is/

http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=212746