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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Wii U vs PS4 vs Xbox One FULL SPECS (January 24, 2014)

man-bear-pig on 11 September 2012

So...according to the specs in the OP (which make no sense to me), which will be the most powerful console?



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

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Solid-Stark on 11 September 2012
man-bear-pig said:
So...according to the specs in the OP (which make no sense to me), which will be the most powerful console?


CPU-wise, the NextBox. Overall, likely the NextBox too.



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Viper1 on 11 September 2012

I think the recent Wii U CPU rumors fail given that we already know for a fact the Wii U CPU is Power7 and Broadway was a PowerPC based CPU. Meaning it can't be an enhanced Broadway chip AND be Power7 at the same time.

And one bit of info came from IBM and the other bit of info from....?



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superchunk on 11 September 2012
man-bear-pig said:
So...according to the specs in the OP (which make no sense to me), which will be the most powerful console?


Look at 2nd post.



S.Peelman on 11 September 2012

If I understand the workings of the 'CPU' correctly, today's rumour of the Broadway cores also don't make sense because of clock speed.
Devs have said that the clock speed of the WiiU's processor was relatively low, but if it were still of Broadway architecture wouldn't it need massive clock speed to actually pack a punch nowadays?

If I'm wrong (my knowledge is limited as my interest in hardware decreased since like the early Pentium 4 days) people are allowed to call me a dumbass .



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superchunk on 11 September 2012
Viper1 said:
I think the recent Wii U CPU rumors fail given that we already know for a fact the Wii U CPU is Power7 and Broadway was a PowerPC based CPU. Meaning it can't be an enhanced Broadway chip AND be Power7 at the same time.

And one bit of info came from IBM and the other bit of info from....?


I fully agree, however, what if Nintendo got scared with 3DS lack of sales and pricepoint, decided to go with back up plan on lower CPU. Original rumors also showed it to have four cores where all recent rumors have had 3.

I didn't update the 2nd post with details for the broadway cpu. I only put it in the top section. However, I've gotten serious flack for that and no one seems to think its true in the thread either. I'll go ahead and delete its mention.



Solid-Stark on 11 September 2012

I wanted to point out, wasn't the Wii-U confirmed on twitter to have a power 7 based cpu? I'm pretty sure I wasn't dreaming.



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superchunk on 11 September 2012
kitler53 said:
superchunk said:
kitler53 said:

looks at OP - isn't ps4 rumored to output 4k?

For movies.... something PS3 and other bluray players can already do. OP is for games primarily. Granted, I didn't even list 3D but I bet they all can do that, though don't think it will have much of a focus.


...i think you are wrong about the ps3 being able to output at 4k. 

i can see your point about it being only for movies (games obviously won't render at (or anywhere near) 4k) but as cost is as much a part of this discussion as specs i would think it is at least worth mentioning.

Yeah you're right. I went to Sony's page and the tech specs still list 1080p as highest. I could of sworn I read recently that a FW update allowed it to upscale blurays to 4k like some other bluray players.

i can add 4k to resolution, but I was focusing gaming centric as much as possible.



Viper1 on 11 September 2012
superchunk said:
Viper1 said:
I think the recent Wii U CPU rumors fail given that we already know for a fact the Wii U CPU is Power7 and Broadway was a PowerPC based CPU. Meaning it can't be an enhanced Broadway chip AND be Power7 at the same time.

And one bit of info came from IBM and the other bit of info from....?


I fully agree, however, what if Nintendo got scared with 3DS lack of sales and pricepoint, decided to go with back up plan on lower CPU. Original rumors also showed it to have four cores where all recent rumors have had 3.

I didn't update the 2nd post with details for the broadway cpu. I only put it in the top section. However, I've gotten serious flack for that and no one seems to think its true in the thread either. I'll go ahead and delete its mention.

No way they could change the power factor that greatly and not have major problems with the development community.  That would directly damage the financial planning of publishers and developers that have been working on Wii U hardware for over a year now.

And it was pretty recent that IBM made it clear it was a Power7 CPU.    The 3DS financial issue happened well over a year and the fault was simply a high margin and poor foreign exchange rate rather than a costly CPU.



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superchunk on 11 September 2012
Viper1 said:

No way they could change the power factor that greatly and not have major problems with the development community.  That would directly damage the financial planning of publishers and developers that have been working on Wii U hardware for over a year now.

And it was pretty recent that IBM made it clear it was a Power7 CPU.    The 3DS financial issue happened well over a year and the fault was simply a high margin and poor foreign exchange rate rather than a costly CPU.

True. IBM did state only a month or so ago through Twitter that it was still Power7... i.e. Watson's technology.