Michael Pachter: "Switch is tracking to sell 13 million this year"

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curl-6 said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

It's one of them:

 

1. The processor is the same tech (PowerPC 4xx from 1998 just like the Gamecube and Wii), just with a higher clock speed and tripled the cores.
2. Ati GPU in all those models
3. Can use all the peripherals of the Wii out of the box
4. can play all the games of the Wii
5. The console even looks similar, especially from the front; Wii U case is basically just a streched Wii case with rounded edges. 

From a technical point of view, the Wii U is indeed just a Wii HD with a Gamepad controller slapped on top. From a marketing point of view, it's the successor of the Wii.

 

Early PS3 models literally contained the PS2's chipset to allow backwards compatibility. Xbone uses the same type of RAM as the 360. You can use Gamecube games and controllers on the Wii. And Wii U's GPU is nothing like the Wii's except for being AMD; again, 360 and Xbone both have AMD GPUs as well. None of these things change the fact that they're separate consoles. The Wii U is not Wii HD, Pachter was wrong.

Thank you, glad someone said this before I got here.  The Wii U just being an HD Wii from a tech standpoint?  That makes no sense, I don't care what the reasoning is.