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Miyamotoo on 06 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 similar to 2001 hardware, Wii U was about equal to what a 2007 console would have been, and if Switch is around three times as powerful as Wii U, that would put it around par with what a mid range 2011 system could have achieved. So all three are around 5 years behind the curve.

And no, "modern hardware" doesn't change that. If Switch is x3 Wii U, then it is mid range 2011 power.

You dont need to look years at all and they are really not important, it's way more important direct gap between consoles in same gen, just compare directly Wii hardware with PS3/Xbox360 and Switch with XB1/PS4, and you will see that gap between Switch and XB1/PS4 will be much smaller than Wii was compared to PS3/Xbox360 (gap is around 20x).

Modern hardware and tech do not change power gap, but its important from development perspective because supporting modern techs, engings, APIs, tools...make things easier for developers and they can do more with it, compared to some old hardware and tech, and Switch will easily have most modern hardware and tech for any Nintendo hardware from GC.

 

 

Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:

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. 

Exactly, not just Switch will be somewhere around of half of XB1, while Wii was weaker than PS3/Xbox360 around (15-20x). And not just that, Wii was basicly GC hardware and tech, while Switch will have even more modern tech and hardware than XB1/PS4, and that important from developers perspective because makes thing easier from them.