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Pavolink on 06 April 2012

So, we have a thread about a quote that simply confirms the same Nintendo philosophy since DS? The one that focus on games rather than numbers of CPU and GPU and ram, etc.?

I said wow.



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oniyide on 06 April 2012
RolStoppable said:
oniyide said:
Roma said:

It’s easy to figure it out man! those that say it is weak still have the old devkits or just don’t know how to use it yet as Nintendo will send the newest versions of the kits to the biggest devs first. You mean to say that the devs that are saying it is much more powerful are lying?  


some of these comments are recent, why would some devs have old devkits and others have newer ones?? that seems strange to me especially now. Im not saying anyone is lying, im just saying im gonna wait till E3 instead of saying ya or nay. It could be possible that Ninty lowered SOME specs to sell the console cheaper, its just a theory dont rip my head off

Why you would say the bolded? Unless you felt guilty, of course.

You are behaving quite suspicious in this thread. I am going to start a lynch train on you.

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do your worst, i only said the bolded cause I know how you Ninty fans can get sometimes, especially when it comes to Wii U power. I personally DONT want the on par or lower rumors to be true. I want Wii U to be more powerful than PS360



archbrix on 06 April 2012
darkknightkryta said:
archbrix said:
darkknightkryta said

None of those links officially say anything.  The GPU rumblings are still hearsay and IBM has said they're using the Watson's cpu, which is indeed the Power 7s.  But then again Intel said they were putting Pentiums in the original Xbox and we know how that all ended up.  Those were just the first two and if it they weren't from endgadget I would have dismissed them right away.  What I will dismiss is Wikipedia and IGN.

The Engadget links are official:  It doesn't get much more official than confirmation from IBM themselves.  And it's pretty common knowledge that the GPU is from the R700 series.

The fact that you choose to dismiss the Wikipedia and IGN links is irrelevant, as they just mirror what is stated in the other links anyway, which is reality.

And "common" knowledge hasn't come out of anyone's mouth, it's all hearsay and rumblings, just like how the Vita was supposed to be using the Tegra. 

Nope.  Engadget never says hearsay, rumblings or rumors when mentioning the GPU.  Neither do several other sites.  In fact, Engadget says "simialr to the R770" specifically.  Whether or not Nintendo decides to scrap this and go with something else for the final version (which is extremely unlikely) is another story, but as of now a simple Google search will show that it's "common knowledge".



archbrix on 06 April 2012
Pokemonbrawlvg said:
@archbrix So now it's more powerful than what the video showed?

It could be.  Like that video said, we know that the GPU will be based on the R700 series, and the latest rumors suggest that the chip inside will be based on the HD 4850.  However, being that the 4850 is still unconfirmed, the guy in the video chose to go more conservative and use the HD 4770 chipset as the basis for comparison.  Even with that, WiiU would outperform the PS360 in both GPU and CPU.



Conegamer on 06 April 2012

I don't understand why we need to continue posting these topics. Nintendo won't say, and we likely won't know until it's launched. But does it matter? We've all seen the WiiU tech demo, and screens from games, so we can see what it can do from this alone. Does it look good? Yes, it does, so it doesn't matter if it has 1GB or 100GB RAM.

We have so many contradictory statements; some of which are likely true (EA, Capcom, Unreal), others...not so (anonymous source), trying to cash in on the buzz as of late to get hits for small sites. Who knows if there even IS a source for these, or if the site just made it up (likely)...



 

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Viper1 on 06 April 2012
darkknightkryta said:
archbrix said:
darkknightkryta said

None of those links officially say anything.  The GPU rumblings are still hearsay and IBM has said they're using the Watson's cpu, which is indeed the Power 7s.  But then again Intel said they were putting Pentiums in the original Xbox and we know how that all ended up.  Those were just the first two and if it they weren't from endgadget I would have dismissed them right away.  What I will dismiss is Wikipedia and IGN.

The Engadget links are official:  It doesn't get much more official than confirmation from IBM themselves.  And it's pretty common knowledge that the GPU is from the R700 series.

The fact that you choose to dismiss the Wikipedia and IGN links is irrelevant, as they just mirror what is stated in the other links anyway, which is reality.

Yes, IBM hinted at the CPU, I agreed with that, though it's probably been tinkered a lot.  Could be something in between Power 7 and 8, can be something in between Power 6 and 7.  And "common" knowledge hasn't come out of anyone's mouth, it's all hearsay and rumblings, just like how the Vita was supposed to be using the Tegra. 

It can't be from Power 6.  It's 45 nm, has lot sof eDRAM, will be manufactured at their East Fishkill, NY fab, is OoO execution and is based on the same CPU that powerd the Watson A.I. program.   The ONLY 2 options are Power 7 and Power A2.  That's it.   All that information came directly from IBM.



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