| sam987 said: Yeah it may look the same as the PS3/Xbox360 but since they both run at 720p/30fps and the WiiU version runs at 1080p/60fps...That's a lot of upgrade but some people dont understand that because they just look at the graphics and draw their own (simpleminded) conslusions. |
That's exactly what I was thinking. I hope it is the case.
As usual, don´t expect anyone other than Nintendo (and maybe a handful of 3rd parties) to really do anything significant with the system´s power.
| ethomaz said: Wii is old gen... so Wii U too. Now if you compare Wii U with Wii then you are to see a big jump in graphics. |
spoken like a guy who knows what he is talking about
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Roma said:
spoken like a guy who knows what he is talking about
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Yeah, I can't understand why people associate Nintendo home consoles to "old gen" when the Wii was the first to follow this philosophy. All of their previous consoles have been very capable machines for their respective generations.
Furthermore, it's been all but officially confirmed that the GPU in the WiiU is from the Radeon R700 series. Granted, that's from 2008, but more than capable of outperforming the current consoles... particularly since it has been highly customized for WiiU.
Add to that the extra RAM and the fact that the CPU has been confirmed by IBM themselves to be a POWER7, and WiiU is hardly "old gen". While I do expect Microsoft's NeXtBox to be stronger (not so sure about Sony yet), I don't think we have to wait until its release for the 8th gen to begin.
| ethomaz said: Wii is old gen... so Wii U too. Now if you compare Wii U with Wii then you are to see a big jump in graphics. |
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archbrix said:
Yeah, I can't understand why people associate Nintendo home consoles to "old gen" when the Wii was the first to follow this philosophy. All of their previous consoles have been very capable machines for their respective generations. Furthermore, it's been all but officially confirmed that the GPU in the WiiU is from the Radeon R700 series. Granted, that's from 2008, but more than capable of outperforming the current consoles... particularly since it has been highly customized for WiiU. Add to that the extra RAM and the fact that the CPU has been confirmed by IBM themselves to be a POWER7, and WiiU is hardly "old gen". While I do expect Microsoft's NeXtBox to be stronger (not so sure about Sony yet), I don't think we have to wait until its release for the 8th gen to begin. |
Computers had all moved to 16-bit when the NES was released. The SNES used an old weak CPU from the C64, and the gameboy probably used outdated tech as well.
Bottom line, he has a point :P. The only consoles where Nintendo didn't follow the philosophy of "creative thinking with withered technology" was with N64 and Gamecube.
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archbrix said:
Yeah, I can't understand why people associate Nintendo home consoles to "old gen" when the Wii was the first to follow this philosophy. All of their previous consoles have been very capable machines for their respective generations. Furthermore, it's been all but officially confirmed that the GPU in the WiiU is from the Radeon R700 series. Granted, that's from 2008, but more than capable of outperforming the current consoles... particularly since it has been highly customized for WiiU. Add to that the extra RAM and the fact that the CPU has been confirmed by IBM themselves to be a POWER7, and WiiU is hardly "old gen". While I do expect Microsoft's NeXtBox to be stronger (not so sure about Sony yet), I don't think we have to wait until its release for the 8th gen to begin. |
Some people are noobs and just don’t know how things where before PS360 came or they just ignore facts.
WiiU is a next gen console and it does not have to be and par with next box or PS4.
I’m expecting a PS2 vs GC graphical difference
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KungKras said:
Computers had all moved to 16-bit when the NES was released. The SNES used an old weak CPU from the C64, and the gameboy probably used outdated tech as well. Bottom line, he has a point :P. The only consoles where Nintendo didn't follow the philosophy of "creative thinking with withered technology" was with N64 and Gamecube. |
I disagree. First, I'm not talking about handhelds, and second, the fact that every Nintendo home console has compared favorably to its competition remains. No, the SNES CPU was not as fast as the Genesis CPU, however the SNES was a far more capable machine on a technical/graphical level. My point being that Nintendo has never had the weakest performance with their console hardware in a generation until the Wii, which was far behind despite being released a year after the 360. And while I would bet that WiiU will be the weakest of the 8th gen in the end, I don't believe the gap will be perceived anywhere near what it was this gen... unless the competition releases much later or much more expensive than we think.
| archbrix said: Yeah, I can't understand why people associate Nintendo home consoles to "old gen" when the Wii was the first to follow this philosophy. All of their previous consoles have been very capable machines for their respective generations. Furthermore, it's been all but officially confirmed that the GPU in the WiiU is from the Radeon R700 series. Granted, that's from 2008, but more than capable of outperforming the current consoles... particularly since it has been highly customized for WiiU. Add to that the extra RAM and the fact that the CPU has been confirmed by IBM themselves to be a POWER7, and WiiU is hardly "old gen". While I do expect Microsoft's NeXtBox to be stronger (not so sure about Sony yet), I don't think we have to wait until its release for the 8th gen to begin. |
Yeah I hate when people start bashing the Wii U when they don't know the few facts we do indeed know about the system.
Also, I have the feeling that Microsoft won't go all high tech since they seem to focused way to much on the casual market (a.k.a Kinect), you don't really need advanced graphics to impress the casual market, and heck even Patcher said not to long ago that Microsoft have plans to focus more on multimedia and boring stuff on E3.
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