Pemalite said:
JEMC said:
That's great and all that, but there is a big problem: we're talking about Nintendo.
I remember when we were having the same discussion about Wii U, with many of us making the same mistake of believing Nintendo would use modern hardware. And look how Wii U ended.
Taking for granted that Nintendo will use Zen and Polaris is a mistake and goes against all what Nintendo has done in the past, always going for tried and tested hardware for their products. In fact, if this rumor is true (something that I don't believe) then NX looks to be an hybrid device, and for that, an ARM processor seems more likely.
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Indeed.
But who knows what goes behind closed doors. :P Just throwing some theories around, that's all. Or "hopes".
But even with that said, even if Nintendo goes for Zen+Polaris... They could still have hardware that is technically slower than the Xbox One.
You are going to need definitive evidence to say the WiiU has 480Gflops, most outlet's think it's far less than that.
Just. Look. At. The. Games. There is a clear generational difference between WiiU titles and the Xbox One, one that leads it to a performance gap greater than 2.5x that you you imply. - That's all the proof right there. The games.
Polaris can use HBM, GDDR5, GDDR5X and the Memory controller will likely have DDR4 (Maybe DDR3?) support also for die-harvested parts that will filter down into lower-end segments and mobile.
Tonga would also be a good choice, Colour Compression would help make up some performance ground with the other consoles even if it has less resources than the Xbox One. - Excavator would be an extreme dissapointment, a dissapointment that would be on par as being served a big fat steak that was actually Tofu.
AMD's current CPU's are horrible.
Polaris and Zen had working silicon last year, so it's not entirely impossible to imagine Nintendo taking advantage of that, whether it happens though is something that only time will tell.
Ck1x said:
I can't believe people are still discussing the WiiU specs as we are talking about the possibilities of their next system... kind of crazy! |
We are looking towards history for an idea of the future.
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The games show you're absolutely wrong. Xbox 1 900p 30fps standard, wii u gets 720p 60fps standard. the wii u's framerate cover the lower resolution so the only difference is graphics, and those aren't that much better on x1.
