Soundwave on 04 July 2015
| binary solo said: Well, he doesn't know if the thing will be a home console (seems absurd he's been talking to the right people, but doesn't know that basic bit of information), so if it's a handheld then it doesn't need PS4 level of power. But if it is a home console I simply cannot imagine how it could not be more powerful than PS4. PS4 will be at least 3 year old tech by the time NX comes out. People said power-wise Wii was just 2 GC's duct taped together. So maybe Nintendo thinks it can do a GC--> Wii trick again by not upping the power all that much and introducing something that will excite that casual audience again. |
The Wii wasn't even actually 2x-3x the GameCube. It was literally like a 33% overclock of the CPU/GPU. It had 3x the RAM but that was it.
I remember when Perrin Kaplan (then of Nintendo of America) let it slip that the Wii would be "only" 2-3x more powerful than the GameCube and a lot of the Nintendo community at that time lost their minds. The funny thing is it wasn't even 2x-3x, it was like 1.3x the GameCube with a bump in RAM.
