| jasongw said: Wii U is not 6 year old hardware. Stop spreading FUD. Yes, it's less powerful than PS4 and Xbox One. No one disputes this. But 6 years old? No. It's GPU tech is 2010. It's CPU, we don't exactly know. |
It's not FUD, the information is that it's what, 50% faster than an Xbox 360? Xbox 360 released in 2005 for an entry price of $299. Moore's law is all you need to understand that means you could have built something similar to Wii U for $299 in 2007. Of course that's with Microsoft's aggressive pricing, doesn't include the Game Pad, and would be much larger than Wii U.
The date a GPU is designed doesn't determine primarily performance; it determines size, cost and power profile at a given performance.
For example a Radeon HD 3000 with 400 GFlops/s from 2007 has higher GFLOPs than the Wii U, but is kind of big and costly (~179). By 2010, a newer Radeon series chip equivalent to 400GFlops/s in performance is about 3 times smaller, 3 times cheaper (~$55), and 3 times less power hungry.
By 2012 when the Wii U released, an equivalent GPU is not sold for desktops anymore, but for laptops, sipping ~10 Watts of power. That's why Wii U can be so small, like a Wii.
