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Miyamotoo on 10 April 2017
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Magnus said:
sethnintendo said:

You mean Xbox One and PS4.  The Wii U had better specs than the PS3 and 360.

If Wii U had better specs than PS3 and 360 they wouldn't have had any trouble porting 360 and PS3 games to Wii U. The reality is that the Wii U CPU was significantly weaker than the 360 or PS3 CPU so third-party ports ran worse on Wii U than on 360 or PS3.

Yes it has worse CPU but had better GPU and more RAM so it was stronger, and with optimisation in order that Wii U use more GPU and RAM Wii U is definitely more capable than PS3/Xbox360.

 

Magnus said:
zorg1000 said:

or you know, sales of the console and 3rd party software may have had a little bit to do with it.

Launch day ports ran worse on Wii U than on 360 and PS3. That is inexcusable.
Magnus said:
zorg1000 said:

lol you dont think devs having 6-7 years of experience working on those devices or games being rushed to make launch day have anything to do with that?

if third parties needed optimization to yield the same results on Wii U than on PS3 or 360 then the system was doomed, period.

You do realise that PS3/Xbox360 launch games looked much worse and run much worse then they did in 2012. when Wii U was launche!? Just compare some of 3rd party games from 2005/2006. with 2012. games on same platforms, we talking about night and day difrence. Every platform at launch has poorly optimised games that doesn't use nearly of max potential of hardware.

 

 

curl-6 said:
RolStoppable said:

Good, this means that either someone else already beat sense into you or you've come around to realize that by yourself. Because I did see you say that Wii U had a great launch only a few days ago.

The Wii U had a good first month, but it fell off a cliff after that because the Nintendo diehards bought it right away, but then there was nothing to draw in mainstream consumers.

Huge difference is that Wii U was launched in holiday season, and sales fail over a cliff right after Decembar in January (just after 1.5 month), while it seems that Switch will be strong even in second (most likly third also) month beacuse there is quite demand for it.