Honestly go and play perfect dark zero now, and then load up modern warfare 3 or halo reach and think of the leap between them. it is like a generation gap on the same system.

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yeah it's really cool when unlike the wii where everyone talking about it's power even in the crazyiest of the crazy hype that was going on still admitted it was less powerful then the old xbox but Now people are really getting hyped up for everything about the wiiu....

damn your signiture btw I literally can't think of their names without saying it in my head the way they did coming from the digivolutions :D Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetallllgreeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyymon rawr. heh.

Thats not the point, the point is that PS2 couldn't handle a game like Resistance: Fall of Man but so far PS360 can handle any game shown for WiiU.

And another thing: 6 years ago developers had to learn to program with multicore chips, HD outputs and so on, the leap to HD was hard and specially hard on PS3, developers now have all that knowledge and experience but so far there's no true next gen graphics game on WiiU if at least they announced Star Wars 1313 or something but so far nothing.

Did anyone actually bother to read the article? LOL.

The article doesn't say anything specific about the Wii U GPU's performance, nor does the Unity guy say anything about the Wii U GPU in comparision to the 360/PS3. The guy who wrote that headline should be slapped upside the head. Completely misleading, just looking for cheap hits and he suckered a lot of people into it from the looks of it.

Title is misleading, the quote doesn't actually say that at all. He says that they will allow devs to possibly implement the features that were added in Unity 4. A lot of Unity 4's new features are features that are not applicable to consoles like multithreaded DX API calls and batching which consoles really don't use. A lot of the other stuff are features that have been used in lots of PS360 games such as Iterative lightmap baking, 3D texture support, deferred lighting etc. The only true DX11 "exclusive" feature they added was tessellation.

Honestly, thinking that Wii U is not more powerful than PS360 is...well, bit silly. PS360 have GPUs that are, more or less, on par with something like ATI 5550, so Wii U's GPU is way more powerful. But what article states is that Wii U will support Unity 4, and all it's features...well, they'll see to it "potentially". While I really like Unity, and think it's marvelous engine for lower/mid cost projects, it's simply nowhere near what new "next-gen" engines are/will be able to achieve, specially if Microsoft and Sony have listened to what engine makers have been asking for. So, while I think that Wii U may be (conditionally) called "next-gen", I'd say it's bit too early to conclude will it be able to stay in that category, or will it be Dreamcast all over again.

All shader model 4.1 GPUs can run shader model 5 code, they just do it poorly.

Didn't Crytec state they were able to to some effects on current gen consoles that should only be possible with DX11?

Correct and btw it is launch titles that run with twice the resolution and also feed the tablet that has SD resolution  so yeah 1920x1080 + 854x480  is TOTALLY on par with for example Black Ops 1 on PS3 that runs at an AMAZING resolution of  960x544......

ENOUGH SAID :)