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Forums - Nintendo - IBM confirms that Wii U does not use Power 7 CPU

TheShape31 on 20 September 2012
Sal.Paradise said:
Oh lawd. About a million posts on vgchartz invalidated.

Yep, a lot of people put a lot of energy into defending the Wii U as being much more powerful than it is.  I was hoping that those people would be correct, but I sort of had a feeling that things would turn out this way.

I wonder now how many think that Wii U isn't overpriced by $50.  Or how many still believe that Wii U can easily do 1080p 60fps on just about any AAA 3D title.  I think it's time for many on this site to start thinking a bit more realistically about the capabilities of this new console.

Just as the Wii was barely capable of anything more than Xbox and Gamecube, such is the Wii U to PS3 and X360.



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F0X on 20 September 2012

So basically we can't trust anyone for accurate WiiU specs.



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phenom08 on 20 September 2012
TheShape31 said:
Sal.Paradise said:
Oh lawd. About a million posts on vgchartz invalidated.

Yep, a lot of people put a lot of energy into defending the Wii U as being much more powerful than it is.  I was hoping that those people would be correct, but I sort of had a feeling that things would turn out this way.

I wonder now how many think that Wii U isn't overpriced by $50.  Or how many still believe that Wii U can easily do 1080p 60fps on just about any AAA 3D title.  I think it's time for many on this site to start thinking a bit more realistically about the capabilities of this new console.

Wow!



Busted on 20 September 2012

Then nintendo is doomed.



darkknightkryta on 20 September 2012

This kinda makes me laugh. So I wonder now if that leaked spec with the single core with the higher cache and the two other cores is correct.



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ethomaz on 20 September 2012
crissindahouse said:

ethomaz should really say us now what he did work on for the wii u

The Wii U CPU is a custom... what??? I don't work on Wii U lol lol lol I only work for IBM.

Anyway I work in another department in another country. Projects like the CPU for Wii U are confidential even for IBM's employees. So I don't have any information about it.



Deoz on 20 September 2012
Mr Khan said:
Power is still distinct from PowerPC, is it not?

As long as we can quash that "three overclocked Broadways" rumor, i'm with this


The term Power Architectures can refer to both POWER or PowerPC



crissindahouse on 20 September 2012
ethomaz said:
crissindahouse said:

ethomaz should really say us now what he did work on for the wii u

The Wii U CPU is a custom... what??? I don't work on Wii U lol lol lol I only work for IBM.

Anyway I work in another department in another country. Projects like the CPU for Wii U are confidential even for IBM's employees. So I don't have any information about it.

that's what you say! lol



ethomaz on 20 September 2012
Deoz said:
Mr Khan said:
Power is still distinct from PowerPC, is it not?

As long as we can quash that "three overclocked Broadways" rumor, i'm with this


The term Power Architectures can refer to both POWER or PowerPC

Well PowerPC is based in POWER.



Deoz on 20 September 2012
ethomaz said:
Deoz said:
Mr Khan said:
Power is still distinct from PowerPC, is it not?

As long as we can quash that "three overclocked Broadways" rumor, i'm with this


The term Power Architectures can refer to both POWER or PowerPC

Weel PowerPC is based in POWER.

Missed the "n" at the end of POWER.

So this rumor could go either way since we also saw a design similar to watson's computer. It highly depends on how "enhanced" the braodway chips are.