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Forums - Gaming - Report: Wii U has twice the power of Xbox 360, still not enough

o_O.Q on 25 January 2012
ksv said:
zzzzzzzzzz who cares?

6x more power? What does that even mean? It can find umpteen decimals of pi 6 times faster? Since it's not used for math, but actually games, this means nothing to anybody.

Nintendo realizes this, Sony and Microsoft will probably waste billions in the first years of the generation yet again on hardware that is not necessary. ZZZ


games aren't made using maths?

"Sony and Microsoft" still have a frequent flow of games coming to their consoles... probably because of the hardware they built into their consoles that you deem uneccessary, how has games support been recently with the wii ( which presumably had hardware more focused on gaming )? 



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Solid-Stark on 25 January 2012
Dgc1808 said:
Gotta love the 8th gen console buzz.


Agreed



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Gaming on: PS4 Pro, Switch, SNES Mini, Wii U, PC (i5-7400, GTX 1060)

Solid-Stark on 25 January 2012

I think this is false. Rumors point to the Wii U having a custom 4770 GPU which alone puts it above the 360 by more than 2x. Let alone a newer CPU tri or quad core.
The two rumors regarding the RAM also further prove my previous statement; it either has 768mb or 1.5 gb of RAM at more than likely GDDR5. On paper the Wii U is 4x more powerful than the 360.
Just a piece of my mind based on rumors



e=mc^2

Gaming on: PS4 Pro, Switch, SNES Mini, Wii U, PC (i5-7400, GTX 1060)

Solid-Stark on 25 January 2012

To add, there was also a previous rumor pointing to the Wii U being about 4x more powerful than the 360, bringing the math discrepancy error way down (though still off)

Wii U = 4x 360 power

720 = 6x 360 power

720 =/= 1.2x Wii U

*Again, all based on rumor.



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Gaming on: PS4 Pro, Switch, SNES Mini, Wii U, PC (i5-7400, GTX 1060)

nuckles87 on 25 January 2012
Play4Fun said:

" However, yesterday a separate insider source told IGN that the next generation Xbox will be “six times as powerful” as its predecessor – the key addition being that this will mean it yields a “20 per cent greater performance than Wii U”.

That unverified calculation, if true, echoes claims from the Develop source who claims the Wii U is far more powerful than current expectations"

LINK


In addition to this, Develop admits this source was an unverified source from...late last year. To put things in perspective final Wii U dev kits only arrived this week, and they are more powerful the developers anticipated.