Clearing up a major misconception about PowerPC

[Captain_Tom]

walsufnir said:

Captain_Tom said:

fleischr said:
Good post.

Every time this topic comes around, there's always some moron who spouts a bunch of nonsense and puts out the myth that the WiiU's internals are exactly the same as the GameCube's.

 

It doesn't matter what how old the Wii U's architecture is.  The fact is that the practice of using PowerPC is outdated to use since x86 and ARM are far easier to program and have become the standard architectures of gaming.

Far easier to program for? What? Especially arm... no, the power isa is known since many years and IBM is known for especially good compilers.

At the very least it is better known by gaming programmers, and thus easier.  All major game engines are built to work on them, making a port to Wii U annoying.