MDMAlliance said:
F0X said:
The specs of the 3DS (which is what we are discussing in this thread, supposedly) is a seperate issue from how the games actually look, I believe. I mean to say that the 3D effect impacts performance, but has no bearing on a discussion about raw power (or at least should not be considered a negative). In fact, I think it's impressive how the 3DS can produce graphics comparable to Wii/GC but in 3D. It's great. If we're taking about the perforance of the 3DS in practice as opposed to a discussion solely about the specs, it would be unwise to point at 2D screenshots as evidence that the 3DS is, at least spec-wise, less powerful than other systems.
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Less powerful in what way are we saying? The 3DS has more RAM, a dualcore rather than a single core processor (though clocked at a lower speed) than the other system, an arguably better CPU, and more modern tech. I'm not sure what we're looking at at this point.
The total RAM used for the Wii is less than the 3DS and the amount used for games are the same I believe. VRAM is higher in the 3DS, and the 3DS uses a superior FCRAM. Though the reported clock speeds of the Wii are significantly higher, the fact that the 3DS is a handheld and is using more modern tech (can do more with less), it isn't exactly needed to have higher clocking speeds. If you wanted to compare the clock speeds, the reported clock speeds for the Wii are potentially higher than the Vita. So are you saying the Wii is potentially more powerful than the Vita based off of certain speculations, especially if we want to ignore all the points I made?
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I think you misunderstand me, but I admit to not being perfectly clear in the first place. I agree with you about the 3DS being more powerful than the Wii, but I don't believe that any current 3DS games make full use of that power, and even if one were to do so, 2D screenshots would not do it justice considering that 3D does impact performance in some way (though it could still look markedly better than any Wii game, potentially). Basically, and I'm saying this not to you specifically, but to those who would compare screenshots when I find them to be irrelevant at this time (though I couldn't resist posting some PSP/3DS comparisions myself), we need to compare specs and nothing else.
I have yet to unfavorably compare a 3DS game's graphics to games on GameCube or Wii, so I'm not claiming that the 3DS is less powerful than either system. I don't think any current game is indicative of what the 3DS can do as of yet, nor do I think any Wii game has yet to properly represent what the system is fully capable of. It would be an unfair comparison in many ways, and what I've tried and failed to say was that the only aspects we should look at are the specs (and again, it wasn't 100% directed at you in the first place).
Clock speeds, I agree, don't matter since the 3DS and Vita use more modern technology. Vita can easily do more, and so could the 3DS. Now let's go back to the thread topic. How does it compare to the PSP?
