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Nuvendil on 17 May 2015
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Angelv577 said:
curl-6 said:

Wii U is more powerful overall, yes. PS3 has the stronger CPU, but Wii U has more than twice as much RAM and a better GPU.

The thing with games like God of War and Uncharted is that one of their primary focuses was pushing the best graphics possible, and they poured huge amounts of money, resources, and manpower into making that happen. On Wii U, there is no such drive to produce the system-pushing visuals; Nintendo has shown no interest in pushing tech, and third parties haven't made the necessary investment to do so.

That said, there have been Wii U games that are beyond PS3 capacity, like Trine 2 Director's Cut and Xenoblade Chronicles X. But in general, few devs have actually tried to push Wii U's chipset, while many poured immense resources into pushing the PS3.

Even though I agree with what you are saying.  I wouldn't be so sure with the bolded especially xenoblade chronicles when we have GTA 5 to compare.  Granted, GTA 5 development budget is very big but it also shows that ps3 is capable of doing things that were at a time unimaginable.

Well, keep in mind that XCX is far larger than GTAV.  The map is around 153 square miles confirmed (the playable field, according to the Dev).  GTAV is unknown, but the highest estimate is 100 sq miles.  Lower estimates put it at the 50s range iirc.  So XCX is significantly larger.  I would also fall back on Tachi's analysis, who believed it was highly unlikely that XCX could be achieved on a 360 or PS3.  There's also things to consider like AI.  XCX's seems to be handling more as far as that goes, something more in line with Skyrim just at absurd sizes.  And while the visible draw distance varies, it can be (and often is) very far.