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bonzobanana on 30 May 2015
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nanorazor said:
flagstaad said:
I think the console could use faster RAM and a little more CPU to solve its current bottleneck problems and get easier ports. Not really more GPU power.


I though it was opposite. The CPU in Xbox one and PS4 is very weak (but decent GPU), its bottlenecking both of these consoles while the Wii U has a very very weak GPU and and a decent CPU. As you know the GPU is more important than CPU (for gaming), but the CPU need to be at certain strength in order to run balancely (enough to run the AI mostly). Also including that the Wii U's CPU maybe decent but its PowerPC so its harder for 3rd party to program.

How on earth did you get to believe that? I've just bought a Linx tablet, cheap as chips, even that tablet has about 70% more cpu performance than the wii u and its 64bit processors not 32bit. About 15,000 mips compared to the 9,000 mips of the wii u. It's just a little battery operated tablet. The cpu performance of the wii u is terrible and that's why conversions of games that run on 360 and PS3 run so badly on wii u because it simply doesn't have the same level of cpu resources, those consoles are far more cpu-centric even if their gpu's are inferior. There are a lot of nintendo fanboys on this site and others that spool off the most ridiculous claims about the wii u performance level pretending its somehow competitive. 

One of the key points about the wii u spec that can not be questioned is the 12.8gb/s memory bandwidth because the memory chips are clearly labelled and branded. So we know whatever the wii u does it does it by only transferring a maximum of 12.8gb/s.  That figure of 12.8gb/s is shared between both the operating system side and the game side and the only additional bandwidth is in the 32MB of fast memory built into the gpu. 12.8gb/s  is tiny compared to the 192gb/s of a ps4 for example. Memory bandwidth is a good rough guide regarding a console's performance because it would have been selected on the basis of the requirements of both the gpu and cpu of the system and how much data they can move. Clearly not a lot with the wii u sadly.