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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Wii U Specifications rumored to be the same as the X360 now?Update posted in forum not OP. Rumor Busted!

Roma on 05 December 2011
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
Roma said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
VGKing said:
oni-link said:
yeah...I believe it...the same way they said that the 3DS is technically equivalent to the PSP!!! (sarcasm to those who can't tell) I'll wait until the system gets released before believing these said rumours!!!


Technically the 3DS isn't more more powerful than a PSP. With 3D turned on the resolution is cut in half. So the 3DS and PSP are very similar in terms of power.

well, just from Monster Hunter and RE, and many other games, 3DS seems to have clearly better graphics, and 3D makes them even better

I didn't know the 3D outputs half the resoution, everything seems much clearer to me with the 3D turn on, why is that?

 

about the topic, I'm completely confused, is this rumor good or bad!?

Dude Nintendo has tricked us in to believing that those games look far better than those on PSP. Technically its just a PSP with an extra screen and 3D as an extra!

I cannot tell if you are sarcastic or not  : P

yes i was sarcastic :)



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

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snowdog on 05 December 2011

Can't be arsed to read through these 7 pages so apologies if someone has already debunked this rumour before me.

Firstly IBM have confirmed that it's a Power7-based CPU, not a PowerPC CPU.

And secondly having 768 megabits of eDRAM (96 Megabytes) on-die is not going to happen for two reasons: 1) It's going to result in a HUGE GPU and 2) It's going to cost a small bloody fortune.

It's likely to be a modified Power7 tailored to gaming with four or five cores disabled and 16Mb eDRAM. If they've decided on a triple core then there'll be some beneficial trade-offs likely to be a clockspeed of 3.0GHz or more and perhaps 24-32Mb of eDRAM. Either way it's going to be considerably more powerful than the Xenon and Cell. We're talking about a Power7-based chip here. Whether they opt for three or four cores we can expect 1 core to be reserved for the system with developers having access to the rest.

The GPU has been confirmed to be a modern Radeon HD so we're looking at anything from the 4000 series onwards with twice the bandwidth as the X1900 in the 360 and the 7800 GT in the PS3 thanks to a 256 bit bus and unless Nintendo completely lose the plot no less than 1Gb of GDDR3.

The U is going to be 4 or 5 times more powerful than the PS3 and 360.



superchunk on 05 December 2011

BS

Read my link in my sig for most accurate WiiU specs.

Its definitely gonna be a good portion more powerful than PS360 and probably less than neXtBox and PS4.

Every reliable rumor on hardware has had a solid boost on CPU and GPU.



Mr Puggsly on 06 December 2011
Roma said:

how can it be the same as 360 yet run all of its games in 1080p natively? so we now ignore the 50% more powerful than 360 and PS3 rumors cuz this sounds better to the haters right?

yeah thats sound about right :P

Well being able to achieve 1080p for all games doesn't mean its 50% more powerful.

Eitherway, I'm not expecting Nintendo to raise the bar much higher than the HD twins simply to keep price down.



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Mr Puggsly on 07 December 2011
spurgeonryan said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Well being able to achieve 1080p for all games doesn't mean its 50% more powerful.

Eitherway, I'm not expecting Nintendo to raise the bar much higher than the HD twins simply to keep price down.


Are you saying much higher than they are right now, or higher than the 720 and PS4 are supposed to be?

The seventh gen HD twins ofcourse.

The Wii U is a tiny console. I'm not expecting anything too cutting edge.



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freebs2 on 07 December 2011
Mr Puggsly said:
spurgeonryan said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Well being able to achieve 1080p for all games doesn't mean its 50% more powerful.

Eitherway, I'm not expecting Nintendo to raise the bar much higher than the HD twins simply to keep price down.


Are you saying much higher than they are right now, or higher than the 720 and PS4 are supposed to be?

The seventh gen HD twins ofcourse.

The Wii U is a tiny console. I'm not expecting anything too cutting edge.

I agree with your first sentece, but not completely on the 2nd one. I expect next XB/PS to be also smaller, more power efficient and silent than their predecessors, looking good and being eco friendly is a benefit for brand image. but mostly I expecting this because next gen consoles will probably get 32nm processors, maybe even 22nm, those can be much more powerful than the actual ones while also being cooler.



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Play4Fun on 08 December 2011
Mr Puggsly said:
spurgeonryan said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Well being able to achieve 1080p for all games doesn't mean its 50% more powerful.

Eitherway, I'm not expecting Nintendo to raise the bar much higher than the HD twins simply to keep price down.


Are you saying much higher than they are right now, or higher than the 720 and PS4 are supposed to be?

The seventh gen HD twins ofcourse.

The Wii U is a tiny console. I'm not expecting anything too cutting edge.


Size doesn't tell you shit, so yeah...



bigjon on 08 December 2011
Play4Fun said:
Mr Puggsly said:
spurgeonryan said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Well being able to achieve 1080p for all games doesn't mean its 50% more powerful.

Eitherway, I'm not expecting Nintendo to raise the bar much higher than the HD twins simply to keep price down.


Are you saying much higher than they are right now, or higher than the 720 and PS4 are supposed to be?

The seventh gen HD twins ofcourse.

The Wii U is a tiny console. I'm not expecting anything too cutting edge.


Size doesn't tell you shit, so yeah...

The size of the hardware makes but a little difference, it is in how the engineers use the hardware......



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Wii- 72 million   3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases

360- 37 million   Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak

PS3- 29 million  Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut

Soleron on 08 December 2011

The eDRAM claim invalidates the whole thing. eDRAM is on-die cache, and would be found in amounts like 8MB, not 768 or 96.