Wii U has “capability issues” due to single processor,says VentureBeat’s Takahashi

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drkohler on 29 June 2012

Aielyn said:
And who is this "Takahashi" from "VentureBeat"? ...

In short, don't pay any attention. This guy is even lower on the hierarchy of relevant opinions than analysts... ..

For somebody who doesn't seem to have the slightest clue about the technologies involved - judging from your "explanation", you do sound mighty convinced about yourself.

There is a significant bottleneck involved when rendering multiple screens on a single cpu <-> single gpu path, but that complexity is to broad to discuss here. Unfortunately this time, the analyst is completely correct in his assumptions and you are not.

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MDMAlliance on 29 June 2012

I'm getting tired of hearing "rumor this" and "rumor that" or "developer said this (but I wont tell anyone who I really am because I'm probably lying)" or "developer said that." I will just see what the Wii U can do and not look at all these spec numbers because all they are for is showing who has the biggest... you know.

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tonymarraffa on 29 June 2012

Don't believe anything til you hear it from Nintendo. The only given is that WiiU will be weaker than Xbox 720 and PS4.

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Hum. I thought he would have something in addition to what we have already heard to say. Oh well.

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This Venturebeat isn't even a videogame developer. Why the hell should anyone take what these chumps say seriously?

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M.U.G.E.N on 29 June 2012

Well I read over at GAf that the wiiU is said to have a bottleneck thanks to the CPU..and I read this a while back

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JEMC said:
Just to clarify, what does he mean with "single processor"? Is he talking about the CPU, the GPU or another thing?

i think he means single processor as on single proccessing unit just in the Wii U, and nothing in the Wii U controller. i dont think he ment single core

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famousringo on 29 June 2012

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I don't think he understands technology at all.

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Rendering to two screens is as hard as rendering to one screen with twice the resolution or framerate, and the tablet screen is optional much like the second screen on the DS was. Number of cores/GPUs doesn't come into it; game devs can just have the tablet screen blank if they want to make the TV screen look better.

Whenever I see a financial publication backing up doomsaying with technological ignorance, I think "stock manipulation."

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torok on 29 June 2012

Well, if we look at some E3 rumors:
- Sony will buy Gaikai/Onlive
- XBox 720

I prefer not to listen to rumors and wait until we have some facts (basically, when Wii U hits the market). Anyway, looking at the specs, it's more capable than PS360: 3 times more RAM, better GPU...