Hyrule Warriors shows the Wii U's CPU isn't THAT weak

[ZyroXZ2]

curl-6 said:

ZyroXZ2 said:

curl-6 said:

Didn't Pikmin 1 and 2 on Gamecube also have 100 Pikmin running around at once though?

And based on clock speed and core count alone, Espresso (Wii U CPU) should be about 7.5 times more powerful than Gekko (GCN CPU) and that's before you factor in the 12-fold cache increase.

The GC was actually quite a powerful machine for its time...

The GC versions didn't have the individual captains to allow you the level of task diversity that Pikmin 3 does, which is obviously attributed to having more available CPU power.

Oh I agree that Pikmin 3 is doing more CPU work than its prdecesors, but (over) 7.5 times as much? I reckon Espresso can do more.

You seem to be ignoring the part where the CPU feeds the GPU, lol... The drastically improved graphics, particularly in the physics and particle effects area, do still require CPU power.  A GPGPU doesn't completely remove the CPU from the equation: the CPU still has to process the frames.