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NintendoPie on 05 July 2012

The last paragraph was all I needed to see. Nay-sayers can just deal with the truth now, I guess.



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NintendoPie on 05 July 2012
VGKing said:

 

 

Edit: Not sure if this info has been posted as confirmed before, but according to this, if a game is built from the ground up for Wii U there will be a noticeable leap in graphics from the last generation.


Of course.

The jump from SD to HD is huge.

That's barely a joke.

He's obviously talking about the HD Consoles, and you know it.



Galaki on 05 July 2012

Can you simplify it by summarizing it into whether Nintendo is d0m3d?



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lilbroex on 05 July 2012
zarx said:
lilbroex said:
IamAwsome said:
Can someone translate it all to English for me? Is it a decent jump form the PS3/360? And will it shut haters up?


The suggest specs suggest that is nearly 3 times as powerful as opposed to the previous belieft of 1.5 and nothing will shut them up. That is what make them haters. They love to hate. If you close one gate, they either pretend that its still opened or go through another one and keep doing the same thing.


Actually the specs don't suggest anything of the sort as it doesn't have clock speeds or the number of shaders in the GPU. Depending on clocks that hardware could be anything from 0.1 to 5 times as powerful, they really say nothing about raw power. They do suggest a basic level of hardware features but nothing really new, it's basically a R700 GPU and a modern IBM CPU which we have known for years. The only new stuff from this feature list (even tho it is an old leak) was the RAM and number of CPU cores. 

Clock speeds wouldn't make much differences anyway and haven't for nearly 10 years. Thats like comparing a core-i3 to a pentium D with th esame clock. That clock will make little difference in the power. We know that the Power7 runs circles around the cell and the cel lthe runs circles around the the power5.

We know that GPU is at least 2 generations ahead of the ones in th PS3 and 360, and the specs suggest that its uses technology that even further advanced than that. The overall effective power is "close" to 3 times the capability within reason.



Aielyn on 05 July 2012
Pavolink said:
3 Game Cube duct-taped.

That's some damn magical duct-tape, then. Maybe it's Tardis-Duct-Tape?



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zarx on 05 July 2012
lilbroex said:

Clock speeds wouldn't make much differences anyway and haven't for nearly 10 years. Thats like comparing a core-i3 to a pentium D with th esame clock. That clock will make little difference in the power. We know that the Power7 runs circles around the cell and the cel lthe runs circles around the the power5.

We know that GPU is at least 2 generations ahead of the ones in th PS3 and 360, and the specs suggest that its uses technology that even further advanced than that. The overall effective power is "close" to 3 times the capability within reason.


Actually clock speeds make a huge difference a Power 7 at 0.1Ghz is going to be slower than one at 3Ghz and a 3 core Power 7 chip at 1GHz is going to be slower than the Xenon at 3.2Ghz. There are other important factors and it's not really useful for compairing 2 different CPU architectures but it is still the main factor that determines how fast a CPU is hence the popularity of overclocking. 



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Solid-Stark on 05 July 2012

It seems like the GPU is still vague.



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happydolphin on 05 July 2012
VGKing said:

 

 

Edit: Not sure if this info has been posted as confirmed before, but according to this, if a game is built from the ground up for Wii U there will be a noticeable leap in graphics from the last generation.


Of course.

The jump from SD to HD is huge.

clap clap clap /sarcasm



happydolphin on 05 July 2012
Galaki said:
Can you simplify it by summarizing it into whether Nintendo is d0m3d?

I'll try.


As far as the processor... their dumed

When it comes to graphics, hmmm Nintendo is kind of d0med.

When it comes to memory... their body is ready. But the SDK mentions that they are doomed "Note: retail machine will have half devkit memory. Please note that the quantity of memory available from the Cafe SDK and Operating System may vary." (i.e. Nintendo is doomed)

When it comes to features? DOOMED

Networking -> Doomed

Peripherals... ehhh... "okay" I guess?

Built-in storage - Hard Doomed

Host PC Bridge. Here I have to explain. Since the SDK provides details, it gets a little more unclear. Let's see if I can analyze it for you:

"Allows File System emulation by host PC."

In other words it requires a PC to work. So, it's doomed.

 

Well, that's all I could get for now, I will now continue to read everything posted about Nintendo and read it as meaning that Nintendo is doomed, k?



Galaki on 05 July 2012
happydolphin said:
Galaki said:
Can you simplify it by summarizing it into whether Nintendo is d0m3d?

I'll try.


As far as the processor... their dumed

When it comes to graphics, hmmm Nintendo is kind of d0med.

When it comes to memory... their body is ready. But the SDK mentions that they are doomed "Note: retail machine will have half devkit memory. Please note that the quantity of memory available from the Cafe SDK and Operating System may vary." (i.e. Nintendo is doomed)

When it comes to features? DOOMED

Networking -> Doomed

Peripherals... ehhh... "okay" I guess?

Built-in storage - Hard Doomed

Host PC Bridge. Here I have to explain. Since the SDK provides details, it gets a little more unclear. Let's see if I can analyze it for you:

"Allows File System emulation by host PC."

In other words it requires a PC to work. So, it's doomed.

 

Well, that's all I could get for now, I will now continue to read everything posted about Nintendo and read it as meaning that Nintendo is doomed, k?

You're doing it wrong. I don't need long explanation. Just tell me if it's d0m3d or not and that's good enough for me.



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