If Wii U had a different name would sales be higher?

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Zekkyou said:

PigPen said:

Zekkyou said:

Low end PC specs make something powerful? :p Are the PS4 and X1 machines of god like strength to you? They reach aaaaaall the way up to a mid range PC :p

Well it don't need a fax machine or to run Microsoft Excel.  For a home console it's powerful enough.  Sony and a few developers say the Wii U is a little bit more powerful then the X360 you believe.  The Wii U has eDRAM which is very fast, it's a beast.

Sony have never said the WiiU is only little more powerful than the 360 lol... The 360 also has eDRAM, just less of it. eDRAM is intended to make up for the WiiU's lack of standard RAM, it doesn't make the GPU or CPU any faster.

The WiiU is certainly more powerful than the 360/PS3, but it's still not powerful. As I've said before, even the PS4's power is a little disappointing and that's a console reported to be 10 times stronger than the PS3 (as said by the developer of Yakuza). I suppose you could say the designers of the PS4 were successful in that 10 PS3's was their aim for the hardware, but considering how far PC's have come it's still somewhat lackluster.

Still, what else do people except from consoles; they're cheap.

Yeah, I was going to say it may be lackluster to higher end PCs but for $400 and fairly low wattage it is good and they packed 8GB GDDR5 at a time when high end GPUs typically had 3GB.