Ubisoft CEO: “Nintendo has to perform this year, otherwise they will have less games”

[SubiyaCryolite]

Rab said:

SubiyaCryolite said:

Rab said:

Ultimately the CPU is not the issue, it's the GPU intensive architecture that's different from last gen architecture, PC's also have issues with poorly optimised ports 

No, the CPU is an issue. Games running on 8 year old hardware should not be bottlenecked by the CPU of new gen hardware, theres simply no excuse for that. Not everything can run on the GPU and the WiiUs compute power probably isnt breathtaking either.

"There was even some discussion on trying to utilise the GPU via compute shaders (GPGPU) to offload work from the CPU - exactly the approach I expect to see gain traction on the next-gen consoles - but with very limited development time and no examples or guidance from Nintendo, we didn't feel that we could risk attempting this work. If we had a larger development team or a longer timeframe, maybe we would have attempted it, but in hindsight we would have been limited as to what we could have done before we maxed out the GPU again. The GPU is better than on PS3 or Xbox 360, but leagues away from the graphics hardware in the PS4 or Xbox One."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-secret-developers-wii-u-the-inside-story

I gave you an example of a tradtionally intensive CPU heavy game type in Hyrule Warriors that the Wii U will handle without issue. If some devs can't or wont program for the Wii U's GPU then it's not the ability of the system, it's the architecture, Nintendo and some others seem to do well enough on the system as is

Again even high end PC's have had many similar issues with ports, in my opinion it's still mostly to do with architecture and the willingness of devs to work with it

A 1.2GHz tri-core CPU is barely adequate for 7th gen ports and after Project CARS 8th gen only games from 3rd party games won't even see the light of day on the system.

Basically third parties have to significantly rewrite their game engines to work around the Wii U's limitations, and thats for 7th gen ports. Despite the hype for GPGPU CPU performance is still important, I simply cannot see next-gen only games like Arkham Knight or AC Unity running on anything less than a reasonably powerful quad core or many moderetaly clocked cores like the PS4 and XB1.