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drkohler said:
oni-link said:
.. The facts being, are that the Wii U will come with a POWER7 CPU (it comes in 4, 6, 8 cores @2.4ghz-4.5ghz configuration) and a Radeon HD R770 based GPU!!! Those alone (not accounting eDRAM probably 10-24MB from MoSys, along with the rumoured 1-2GB system and video RAM) give the Wii U at the very least 4-5x more capability than my beloved X360 slim!!!

The original 8core Power7 CPU burns around 200 Watts. Now look at the WiiU case and compare its size to a PS360 case (which get warm while burning around 100 Watts). See any problem right there? Next learn what eDRAM is used for (hint: 24MByte is not enough to buffer a 1080p TV and 1-2 pads). => End of your WiiU pipe-dream.

The fact is that the WiiU apparently uses a significantly stripped down Power7 (probably quad-)core processor which is about 20-40% more powerful than the XBox processor. Given the fact that the WiiU processor has to feed more than one screen simultaneously, it is no surprise that current rumours say that the WiiU performs roughly on par with PS360 (if pad(s) are use extensively) or somewhat better (if the pad(s) are only used marginally).

btw which alt user are u this time?



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Smeags said:
Conegamer said:
Can we stop talking about all of these rumours of the WiiU's power, please? We'll find out soon enough, why bother posting contradicting reports all the time?

62 days until E3.

We're not gonna make it.

I agree, at this rate we are going to have a mental breakdown, or just develop Doublethink and be happy with it.



flagstaad said:
Smeags said:

public Sudoku.

I don't think you know what public sudoku means. Actually, neither do I.



Smeags said:
BasilZero said:


62 days x 4 threads a day =  248 threads!

This is too shameful for me to bear. Let us do the honorable thing and perform public Sudoku.

YES. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

Conegamer said:
Smeags said:
BasilZero said:


62 days x 4 threads a day =  248 threads!

This is too shameful for me to bear. Let us do the honorable thing and perform public Sudoku.

YES. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THAT MEAN?!?!?!



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NintendoPie said:
Conegamer said:
Smeags said:
BasilZero said:


62 days x 4 threads a day =  248 threads!

This is too shameful for me to bear. Let us do the honorable thing and perform public Sudoku.

YES. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THAT MEAN?!?!?!

I need some Sudoku in my life again!



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

Smeags said:

More from GearBox:

"There's a lot that we can do with that screen," Pitchford said. "It's a really cool system -- it's pretty powerful. I want to be careful, because I don't want to risk any sensitive information that Nintendo's not ready to share yet, but in our experience it's a great system. I think it's a really nice bridge to the next generation. I think people will be surprised. I don't know off the top of my head how many of the specs they've released, so I want to be very careful not to jump the gun, but we're very pleased with the hardware. And even since they gave us our first alpha kit, our very first 'pre-prototype' development hardware that they kind of let us play around with, they've done so many things to make the platform better. So it's getting better for us as developers."

Source

10/10 marks for PR speak

He used tons of words to say exactly nothing.



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Conegamer said:

I need some Sudoku in my life again!

 That didn't help me at all...



NintendoPie said:
Conegamer said:

I need some Sudoku in my life again!

 That didn't help me at all...

*sigh*

You know what Sudoku is right? What more do I need to say?



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

i think all we need to worry about is that its full hd and the controller works well. then i think it will do just fine