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Boutros on 12 June 2011

It sure is important. It truly makes me laugh when people say it wouldn't matter if the Wii U wasn't HD.



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o_O.Q on 12 June 2011
Roma said:
It does not matter what you show or tell people they will not believe it even if they see it :P
You tell them this is an apple and they say no this is an orange so I say whatever I don’t care believe what you want.

The garden demo we saw beats everything that is on the HD consoles and the thing is we have only seen it through cam! imagine how good it would look if we got an official release to look at.

"The garden demo we saw beats everything that is on the HD consoles"

im not trying to bash or anything here but i honestly don't see what you're talking about this is the tech demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRE_se1t9A

for comparison heres a video of infamous 2 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTQ4X9tgnkI

how was the tech demo any better?



gurglesletch on 12 June 2011

Not surprised. If it wasn't it would be embarassing for nintendo.




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HappySqurriel on 12 June 2011

When you look at what other R700 based GPUs can do, and then factor in some improvement due to modifications and developers optimizing for the particular GPU in the Wii U, I would not be surprised to find out that the Wii U could play current HD console games at 1080p with a frame-rate of 120fps with the higher detail models and textures from the PC version.

To put it another way, while the Wii U will (probably) not be state of the art technology by the time it is released the hardware in it will probably be about 5 years newer than the HD consoles. With how much further ahead the technology is, it shouldn't be difficult to support a higher resolution, better frame-rate and more detailed graphics.



disolitude on 12 June 2011
HappySqurriel said:
When you look at what other R700 based GPUs can do, and then factor in some improvement due to modifications and developers optimizing for the particular GPU in the Wii U, I would not be surprised to find out that the Wii U could play current HD console games at 1080p with a frame-rate of 120fps with the higher detail models and textures from the PC version.

To put it another way, while the Wii U will (probably) not be state of the art technology by the time it is released the hardware in it will probably be about 5 years newer than the HD consoles. With how much further ahead the technology is, it shouldn't be difficult to support a higher resolution, better frame-rate and more detailed graphics.


Unless they stick a 4870 X2 in to WiiU, I don't see it doing anything at 120 frames per second at 1080p. Maybe 720p...

1080p@60 frames per second would be quite doable though with the best R700 based GPU. I doubt they would be doing much improvements to it, other than die shrinks...my guess is Wiiu gpu will be 32nm when it comes out in 2012.



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o_O.Q on 12 June 2011
HappySqurriel said:
When you look at what other R700 based GPUs can do, and then factor in some improvement due to modifications and developers optimizing for the particular GPU in the Wii U, I would not be surprised to find out that the Wii U could play current HD console games at 1080p with a frame-rate of 120fps with the higher detail models and textures from the PC version.

To put it another way, while the Wii U will (probably) not be state of the art technology by the time it is released the hardware in it will probably be about 5 years newer than the HD consoles. With how much further ahead the technology is, it shouldn't be difficult to support a higher resolution, better frame-rate and more detailed graphics.

"When you look at what other R700 based GPUs can do"

when was it confirmed that it has an R700?



kcoward on 12 June 2011
o_O.Q said:
Roma said:
It does not matter what you show or tell people they will not believe it even if they see it :P
You tell them this is an apple and they say no this is an orange so I say whatever I don’t care believe what you want.

The garden demo we saw beats everything that is on the HD consoles and the thing is we have only seen it through cam! imagine how good it would look if we got an official release to look at.

"The garden demo we saw beats everything that is on the HD consoles"

im not trying to bash or anything here but i honestly don't see what you're talking about this is the tech demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRE_se1t9A

for comparison heres a video of infamous 2 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTQ4X9tgnkI

how was the tech demo any better?

Infamous 2 looks cartoonish compared to that bird on the tree. You really want to start an argument you know you already lost?



kcoward on 12 June 2011
o_O.Q said:
HappySqurriel said:
When you look at what other R700 based GPUs can do, and then factor in some improvement due to modifications and developers optimizing for the particular GPU in the Wii U, I would not be surprised to find out that the Wii U could play current HD console games at 1080p with a frame-rate of 120fps with the higher detail models and textures from the PC version.

To put it another way, while the Wii U will (probably) not be state of the art technology by the time it is released the hardware in it will probably be about 5 years newer than the HD consoles. With how much further ahead the technology is, it shouldn't be difficult to support a higher resolution, better frame-rate and more detailed graphics.

"When you look at what other R700 based GPUs can do"

when was it confirmed that it has an R700?

AMD and Iwata confirmed themselves. Google is not that hard to use.....



archbrix on 12 June 2011
ps3_jrpg_gamer said:
mai said:

Funny, that despite all effort by Nintendo, people still seems to be too dismisive of the fact that Zelda tech demo was rendered in real time on actual hardware. And given the previous Zelda tech demos, which were easily surpassed by the real games, how exactly the shown demo isn't representive of real graphics level of the console? It's not like Sony's E3 2005 filled with prerecorded footage, notably Motorstorm and Killzone 2, none of which came close to shown videos.


IT WAS A TECH DEMO that you could change the camera a simple video and the quality was not even equal to current 's gen 360 and ps3

furthermore NOT A SINGLE GAME WAS SHOWN being played Real time on wii u i just some wii-like prototypes(wii-sports like) so those guys are just saying and they don 't really showning what it truly looks like

Agreed that it was only a tech demo, but fully disagree that it's not equal to the current HD system's games... IMHO, it looks a bit better.



o_O.Q on 12 June 2011
kcoward said:
o_O.Q said:
HappySqurriel said:
When you look at what other R700 based GPUs can do, and then factor in some improvement due to modifications and developers optimizing for the particular GPU in the Wii U, I would not be surprised to find out that the Wii U could play current HD console games at 1080p with a frame-rate of 120fps with the higher detail models and textures from the PC version.

To put it another way, while the Wii U will (probably) not be state of the art technology by the time it is released the hardware in it will probably be about 5 years newer than the HD consoles. With how much further ahead the technology is, it shouldn't be difficult to support a higher resolution, better frame-rate and more detailed graphics.

"When you look at what other R700 based GPUs can do"

when was it confirmed that it has an R700?

AMD and Iwata confirmed themselves. Google is not that hard to use.....

this is what i found :

"The technical data on the console has been leaked however, although no confirmation has obviously came from Nintendo themselves"

it was also leaked that rockstar were working on an exclusive title for wii u which would be seen at E3... if you truly believe that these leaks are a viable source of info then you're obviously very naive... at this point in time if you cannot show me a quotation where a nintendo rep has confirmed that their system uses an R700 then your claims are unfounded