I notice that the Wii U has 4 RAM chips. That means that it is 512X4 as opposed to 1024X2 as I thought before. This means that the consoles houses RAM equivelent to 4 PS3/360s.

Now, being it that it resereves 1GB that would mean that it reserves 512X2.

Now here are the big questions. Does it support loading RAM in parrallel and what type of RAM is it?

If it loads in parralel then how much of an improvement would that be to loading and managing data? Also, it will more than likley free up one of the RAM chips for gaming in the future so how much would it benefit from loading to 3 chips at once?

I have no idea what you just typed but I am bumping this incase there is someone out there that might know and can translate it for some of the rest of us.

I'm not the best person on computers, but I'd say it should be able to do more in the same way that a 2GHz Dual Core is more efficent than a 4GHz Single-Core.

It has more than enough RAM...for now...so that's the important thing, and even when the next-gen starts it should still have enough to have games ported to it with no issues.

I heard WiiU is on par and/or less powerful than PS3. That makes the 1GB RAM of the 2 GB RAM roughly equivalent to 256MB RAM of the 512MB RAM.

So, Nintendo is charging its customers 4 times for the price of one. What a rip off.

more than enough ram? lets be honest here thats no way "more than enough" modern day PC's usually have 8 GB of ram (a good one for gaming that is) some go up to 16 GB's. so 1 GB honestly is a littel ram, much better than the PS3 and 360. but in term of RAM the WiiU doesnt pack much

I had edited it earlier but I didn't check to match it up with the rest of the words. I had delated a few things unintentionally like the "4". It should be perfectly understandable now.

At the time of the GC (44 MB) and Xbox(64 MB) the average RAM was 512 MB...

At the time of the PS3(256X2) and the 360(512 with 10 MB EDRAM) the average RAM was 2-4 GB...

Also, do not forget that the RAM used in consoles isn't D_RAM(what PCs use). It's GD_RAM which is faster and more expensive. Faster RAM is better than larger RAM in gaming situations. Being able to load to RAM in parralel(2 chips at once) would make that even faster.

That is why I'm asking about the performance of the RAM, not the size.

its more powerfull than the PS3 and certainly has much more RAM. i dont know if your messing around or being serious honestly

If you've been following gaming news, you should know by now that everybody and their cats know the WiiU is a weak system.

Think about it, if you spend $4 to buy the same piece of candy that I bought for $1. Your dollars are worth 25% of my dollars.

Well when you compare it to the restrictions devs have had with the PS3 and 360, it's a huge increase (2-4x more, and that isn't all dedicated to games). So it should still be portable; because I really doubt the PS4/720 will have more than 2-3GB of dedicated games memory...