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Do you care?

Yes! 106 63.86%
 
No! 36 21.69%
 
Not sure 9 5.42%
 
Results, please 15 9.04%
 
Total:166

HD Ready only resolution would be enough for me. The couch distance to my 55" LED TV makes 720p or 1080p nearly indistinguishable.

The subject of the console's power really comes if Nintendo wants the Wii U to become more U. But we all know how stubborn third parties are, so in the end, it doesn't really matter.



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TomaTito said:

HD Ready only resolution would be enough for me. The couch distance to my 55" LED TV makes 720p or 1080p nearly indistinguishable.

The subject of the console's power really comes if Nintendo wants the Wii U to become more U. But we all know how stubborn third parties are, so in the end, it doesn't really matter.

You'll get quite a lot of jaggies at 720p, unless plenty AA is used, but if wii U is on par with ps360, AA will be lacking in many games



SnakeDrake said:
Hey add 360 into the title of this thread to make it more fair and balance


The titles is perfectly fair and was copied from the original source. No one cares if Wii U is weaker than PS3 but stronger than Xbox 360 as it's still old tech no matter what.



I think that it'll be less powerful than the Turbographx 16.



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Andrespetmonkey said:
TomaTito said:

HD Ready only resolution would be enough for me. The couch distance to my 55" LED TV makes 720p or 1080p nearly indistinguishable.

You'll get quite a lot of jaggies at 720p, unless plenty AA is used, but if wii U is on par with ps360, AA will be lacking in many games

Even Wii jaggies don't phase me on this TV, so 720p jaggies would not disturb me more. I'd like 1080p to used the standard, since it'd make the console "future proof", but I prefer an affordable console.



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TomaTito said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
TomaTito said:

HD Ready only resolution would be enough for me. The couch distance to my 55" LED TV makes 720p or 1080p nearly indistinguishable.

You'll get quite a lot of jaggies at 720p, unless plenty AA is used, but if wii U is on par with ps360, AA will be lacking in many games

Even Wii jaggies don't phase me on this TV, so 720p jaggies would not disturb me more. I'd like 1080p to used the standard, since it'd make the console "future proof", but I prefer an affordable console.

Alrighty. A console using 1080p as standard would be very affordable in 2012 btw :P



Andrespetmonkey said:

Alrighty. A console using 1080p as standard would be very affordable in 2012 btw :P

I'll think about those while I am playing with the Utab.

PS: I love jaggies, just look at my Avatar :)



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I'm not surprised that the system will be less powerful, but the hardcore will have either moved on to PC gaming or will be getting another console that has better tech.



I would care, if I am investing in new hardware I expect better graphics. That is exactly where ninty failed with the Wii IMO, not saying it isn't a good console, but it took away alot of the excitement I had for it.



We know for a fact that the U is more powerful than the PS3 and 360. Even if you ignore the leaks that we've had so far (a tri-core Power7-based CPU with 2 SMTs per core, OoOE and 3MB of eDRAM for its L2 cache, 1-2GB of RAM, a modern Radeon HD with 32MB of eDRAM) the demos at last years E3 are beyond anything that the PS3 and 360 are capable of producing on one display let alone two, and those demos were developed in a short amount of time on underclocked Alpha hardware.

None of you need to concern yourself about the power of the thing.