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Barkley on 20 March 2015
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Materia-Blade said:
Barkley said:

The reason the WiiU doesn't get third party support is because it's hardware is too different from the other consoles and PC as well. It's got nothing to do with Nintendo "not treating 3rd parties with respect", whatever that means.

The hardware isn't "too different", it's just another myth. all 3 are gpu focused machines that share the same modern dev tools.


No it IS too different. WiiU does not have an x86 architecture cpu. XBO, PS4 and PC do. XBO and PS4 both have 8gb of ram while WiiU has 2gb of ram. XBO and PS4 both have very similair gpu's, the PS4's being a bit more powerful. GPU TFLOPS: PS4: 1.84, XBO:1.31, WiiU: 0.352

The difference between the WiiU and XBO/PS4 compared to the difference between the PS4 and XBO is a lot and the greater the difference the more work is required to port a game between systems. If developers want to develop next-gen title it will be with 8gb of ram in mind, downgrading these titles so they can run with only 2gb of ram would require a lot of effort, the other alternative would be holding games back and developing them with 2gb of ram in mind.

WiiU is too different and would require changes when games are developed with the other next-gen systems in mind.

If all you have to say about them not being too different is that they are "gpu focused machines" I don't think this is the discussion for you.