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Soundwave on 05 December 2016
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curl-6 said:
Miyamotoo said:

Don't even try to count how many times Wii was less powerful than Xbox360/PS3 (20-30x maybe), Switch will be probably around half of power of XB1, so of course that Switch will be more powerful than Wii in its time.

In terms of power, Wii was souped up 2001 hardware, Wii U was about equal to what a mid range 2007 console would have been, and if Switch is around half the power of Xbox One, that would put it around par with what a mid range 2011 system could have achieved.

I think it's

Wii - 12 GFLOPS

XBox 360 - 250 GFLOPS (20x a Wii)

Wii U - 176 GFLOPS (but more modern architecture than 360)

XBox One - 1.3 TFLOPS

PS4 - 1.84 TFLOPS

Nintendo Switch - 600-750 GFLOPS (?)

The gap between the Wii and 360 was ridiculously stupid looking back on it in hindsight. The Wiimote wasn't anything expensive to manufacture, they could've made the Wii a lot more powerful and had far better third party support that generation.