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Dgc1808 on 13 September 2012

For the asking price I'd say this is pretty good.



4 ≈ One

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Naninho on 13 September 2012
pezus said:
lilbroex said:

These specs put it at 3 times the peformance of the 360 at a lower power cost.

This should make it more than capable of playing any current gen PC game out right now.


What? How do you come to that conclusion? They tell us nothing about the GPU or the CPU.

Haha! Let him be! He's happy with his Shader "Modals"...



lilbroex on 13 September 2012

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blkfish92 on 13 September 2012
superchunk said:
blkfish92 said:
Hard drive space is garbage? Or am I missing something here?

HDD space fits your needs. For many, 8 or 32GBis fine. For digital downloaders like me, I'll spend $50 on a 1TB USB HDD and have way more space than I should ever need. OR for others... a 64GB SDHC SD card for $30 or so is perfect.

Basically, this is the perfect solution vs being forced to spend $50 to $100 more up front on the console when you may never need that space.


I guess it's good for the casual gamers, but for me I need A LOT more space. SO unless the downloadable games and patches are damn small, I"ll have to get another HDD



           

errorpwns on 13 September 2012
blkfish92 said:
superchunk said:
blkfish92 said:
Hard drive space is garbage? Or am I missing something here?

HDD space fits your needs. For many, 8 or 32GBis fine. For digital downloaders like me, I'll spend $50 on a 1TB USB HDD and have way more space than I should ever need. OR for others... a 64GB SDHC SD card for $30 or so is perfect.

Basically, this is the perfect solution vs being forced to spend $50 to $100 more up front on the console when you may never need that space.


I guess it's good for the casual gamers, but for me I need A LOT more space. SO unless the downloadable games and patches are damn small, I"ll have to get another HDD

 

Well better than an xbox 360 where it cost 50 dollars for a refurbished hard drive at 120gb of space.  I can get a 120gb sata drive for 20 or so new.



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lilbroex on 14 September 2012

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SnesTea on 14 September 2012
ethomaz said:
lilbroex said:
Snesboy said:
According to Wiki, the WiiU is using an AMD Radeon HD 7000 series card that uses Shader Model 4.0 and a DX10 equivalent.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-30-how-powerful-is-the-wii-u-really


That's impossible. Those Modals are all DX11 with Shader Modal 5.0

The last line to use DX10 was the HD48XX. They used shader modal 4.0 and Direct 10.1.

If I'm not wrong the Shader Model only exists in DirectX. So the OpenGL and others API uses other shaders language.

The Wii uses GX(2?).

That API (GX2) have a shader language equivalent to Shader Model 4.0 and DX10 but it not have/use Shader Model 4.0 or DX10.

That's why I said equivalent to begin with.



lilbroex on 14 September 2012

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blkfish92 on 14 September 2012
errorpwns said:
blkfish92 said:
superchunk said:
blkfish92 said:
Hard drive space is garbage? Or am I missing something here?

HDD space fits your needs. For many, 8 or 32GBis fine. For digital downloaders like me, I'll spend $50 on a 1TB USB HDD and have way more space than I should ever need. OR for others... a 64GB SDHC SD card for $30 or so is perfect.

Basically, this is the perfect solution vs being forced to spend $50 to $100 more up front on the console when you may never need that space.


I guess it's good for the casual gamers, but for me I need A LOT more space. SO unless the downloadable games and patches are damn small, I"ll have to get another HDD

 

Well better than an xbox 360 where it cost 50 dollars for a refurbished hard drive at 120gb of space.  I can get a 120gb sata drive for 20 or so new.


Ya true.



           

errorpwns on 14 September 2012
blkfish92 said:
errorpwns said:
blkfish92 said:
superchunk said:
blkfish92 said:
Hard drive space is garbage? Or am I missing something here?

HDD space fits your needs. For many, 8 or 32GBis fine. For digital downloaders like me, I'll spend $50 on a 1TB USB HDD and have way more space than I should ever need. OR for others... a 64GB SDHC SD card for $30 or so is perfect.

Basically, this is the perfect solution vs being forced to spend $50 to $100 more up front on the console when you may never need that space.


I guess it's good for the casual gamers, but for me I need A LOT more space. SO unless the downloadable games and patches are damn small, I"ll have to get another HDD

 

Well better than an xbox 360 where it cost 50 dollars for a refurbished hard drive at 120gb of space.  I can get a 120gb sata drive for 20 or so new.


Ya true.


Yeah, I was just pointing that out.  I absolutely am happy with the way Nintendo handled the HDD solution.  Instead of making the HDD a proprietary one or a hard to swap out one they stuck with an age old standard.  The USB HDD.  Which a lot of people seem to have one already.  I don't, but ill be sure to get one.  I think the 8-32GB inside was just to make sure people had room to store saved games and small gamefix patches if needed if they chose not to buy DLC or play games off their HDD.