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LinkVPit on 12 October 2012
Galaki said:
bananaking21 said:
Galaki said:
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.

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.

I follow a lot of the gaming sites and most developers have said its more powerful. Not one article I've seen has said its a 'weak' system.

The fact that it can show two screens at the same time with graphics better than PS3 shows its not a weak system.



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bananaking21 on 12 October 2012
lilbroex said:
bananaking21 said:
Conegamer said:
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.


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


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.

ohh my bad, i thought we were talking both, will be interesting to see how it performs, but still consoles and all consoles for that matter have little RAM campared to PC. that was my point when i posted replying to when he said more than enough



twesterm on 12 October 2012
bananaking21 said:
Conegamer said:
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.


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


Keep in mind that PC's are not specialized, consoles are.  A PC needs more ram because it has the game, Steam, Windows, your browser, and the other 30 applications running at once.  Your Xbox as the game and the very lightweight OS running.



 

Chandler on 12 October 2012

If you want to have a discussion with Nintendo people you need to convert those "MB" and "GB" into blocks, OP.



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lilbroex on 12 October 2012
Chandler said:
If you want to have a discussion with Nintendo people you need to convert those "MB" and "GB" into blocks, OP.


It only uses blocks for storage, not memory.



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bananaking21 on 12 October 2012
twesterm said:
bananaking21 said:
Conegamer said:
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.


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


Keep in mind that PC's are not specialized, consoles are.  A PC needs more ram because it has the game, Steam, Windows, your browser, and the other 30 applications running at once.  Your Xbox as the game and the very lightweight OS running.

yeah of course, thats a hole other matter, but still 8 GB's on a PC is much more effiecnt and easier for developers to work with than just 1 on a gaming system, its jut A LOT more. im just saying that the WiiU might have almost enough for now, but will it have enough in 3 years time? when laptops gaming laptops will most probably start packing 16 or more GB's of RAM?



Chandler on 12 October 2012
lilbroex said:
Chandler said:
If you want to have a discussion with Nintendo people you need to convert those "MB" and "GB" into blocks, OP.


It only uses blocks for storage, not memory.


But memory is kinda storage.



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lilbroex on 12 October 2012
Chandler said:
lilbroex said:
Chandler said:
If you want to have a discussion with Nintendo people you need to convert those "MB" and "GB" into blocks, OP.


It only uses blocks for storage, not memory.


But memory is kinda storage.

Memory and Storage are not the same in computer terminology. Memory refers specifically to RAM or ROM and storage do devices intended for holding data even when the system is not running.



Chandler on 12 October 2012
lilbroex said:
Chandler said:
lilbroex said:
Chandler said:
If you want to have a discussion with Nintendo people you need to convert those "MB" and "GB" into blocks, OP.


It only uses blocks for storage, not memory.


But memory is kinda storage.

Memory and Storage are not the same in computer terminology. Memory refers specifically to RAM or ROM and storage do devices intended for holding data even when the system is not running.

So why is the PSVITAS storage called Memory Card?

It was a joke^^



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lilbroex on 12 October 2012
Chandler said:
lilbroex said:
Chandler said:
lilbroex said:
Chandler said:
If you want to have a discussion with Nintendo people you need to convert those "MB" and "GB" into blocks, OP.


It only uses blocks for storage, not memory.


But memory is kinda storage.

Memory and Storage are not the same in computer terminology. Memory refers specifically to RAM or ROM and storage do devices intended for holding data even when the system is not running.

So why is the PSVITAS storage called Memory Card?


Because that is what they chose to call it. All of that is beside the point, however. This is a tech discussion so we will be sticking to tech semantics. Not that the use of the term blocks mattered to begin.