bunchanumbers said:
maxleresistant said:
I'm not going to expect that a handheld that will be probably sold 299 will do the same thing than home consoles released 3 years ago.
It's just bonkers. Be real. It's already incredible that it can do better than the WiiU. The WiiU was a pretty powerful console, if it wasn't for the PowerPC, third party support would have been better.
Now the Switch is an improvement on every aspect, more ram, better GPU, better CPU, better architecture.
So yeah the third party support will be a lot better, but don't expect it to have parity, it will not have parity. It's really not as powerful as a PS4 or an Xbox one, it can't do what it does, the Switch is a handheld.
Now as a WiiU owner, I am still waiting for reasons to buy it (games, duh) but I'm not expecting ME Andromeda, Red Dead Redemption 2, BF1, For Honor, or FF XV on it. It's not impossible, but this is really really far fetched, especially when you know how much developpers struggle with the "lack of power" of the PS4 and One. |
Wii U wasn't powerful. It was like taping a few Wii consoles together. Its still debated whether or not Wii U was more powerful than gen 7 systems.
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It was more powerful, except for the Weak CPU though. Way better GPU, better ram. Like I said, the thing that crippled it was the Power PC architecture. Nobody is working on those anymore, it's X86, ARM or GTFO. PowerPC was a joint creation of IBM and Apple, and Apple stopped using it in 2005... 2005!!!!!
Maybe PowerPC is still used somewhere else, but in videogames and in consumer products? It's over and done.There was a lot of behind the scenes talks saying that the WiiU was a nightmare to develop for. But it was a powerful console, much more than " taping a few Wii consoles together", now it wasn't powerful enough to run all PS4/one games, and the Switch won't be either, but at least the Switch is easy to develop for, it's not an out of date console, it's a cutting edge Handheld.
