| SubiyaCryolite said: I'm sorry but I don't agree, your information won't give people who dont understand these things an accurate indication of these machines capabilities. You are in marketing so you know the concept of false advertising and those numbers ARE misleading. You cant map them to any aspect of the Wii Us hardware in comparison to the hardware within the new HD twins. You should use things that can actually be measured (GPU throughput, Usable RAM, CPU clockspeeds, Core counts and internal HDD capacity). These all show that the system lags behind anywhere from 3 to 5 times based on the components being compared and that is not "close" to the XBox One.
3 1.2GHz cores are not close to 8 1.7GHz cores 1GB of usable ram is not close to 5GB or faster DDR3 12.8GB/s of memory bandwidth is not close to 68GB/s of memory Bandwidth (ignoring the esRAM for both systems) 352GFLOPS is not close to 1300GFLOPs
Don't use NDAs as an excuse because hackers, devs and Digital Foundry has accurately predicted the performance levels of Wii U hardware even before it was released (Digital Foundry vs Nintendo E3 2011). Every 1st and 3rd party face off falls in line with LOGICAL conclusions derived from tear downs, power usage and modern GPU architectures. Those numbers you came up with cannot be justified in any way, but the other charts posted in this thread can. Use those to easily explain to people. You wouldn't be able to market the Wii U (or any other system) with those numbers in any country with strict advertising laws. Sony got sued in South Africa for making baseless claims about the PS3s power back in the day, because it was misleading. |
I have a background in marketing, i'm not in marketing(huge difference). I do know the concept of false advertising and in fact these numbers are not misleading at all. It still paints the correct image of the console capabilities. My suggestion is to go back and re-read what I wrote. I even had siad they aren't representative of the actual consoles. This whole conversation is about misinformation is your fault for not understanding something simple. I wouldn't say something that I haven't tested out in real life. I've probably sold more PS4s cause of it and I don't even work for retailers. Logic and truth does not exist in marketing, this is fact. Sony, MS, and Nintendo have all lied to all of us. Sony bolsters that 1080p 60fps claim for most of it's games yet most are 900p 60fps or 1080i 30fps. MS promised change and Nintendo promised third party. Marketing exist to throw people like you off of what these consoles will actually do.
If you want to sit here and argue specs go ahead becuase I have done my research right up to the NDAs which prevent me from seeing more. The specs that Digital foundry gave out are under NDA aswell. They were only allowed to reviel certain information. If they revieled more they could be sued by Nintendo for breaking NDA. Hackers are the least trustworthy source for information because it's almost always skewed by their own bias. Devs are under NDA, they can only say what they think it's close to.
