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VGKing on 05 February 2013

http://isitgaming.blogspot.com/2013/02/reverse-engineering-reveals-wii-u-to-be.html

A new Digital Foundry article has finally revealed the systems graphical power. The article reveals what most already knew: The Wii U is not a next-generation console. Not in terms of horsepower or technology. In fact Digital Foundry goes as far to say that the PS4 and Xbox 720 will be in an entire different league than the Wii U. What this means is that the Wii U is unlikely to receive ports of AAA 3rd party games such as the next-generation Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed, as it is would be technically impossible to have all 3 versions of the game be on par.

Power isn't the only problem plaguing the Wii U. The unique Wii U Gamepad has also kept some developers from making games for the system as they have said they would like to do something special with the controller.

This news comes after Nintendo has lowered their Wii U sales forecast for the quarter from 5.5 million to 4 million. The Wii U is not performing up to Nintendo's standards and as a result stock prices have been falling. Iwata, the president of Nintendo has recently apologized to Nintendo fans for the lack of game releases for Wii U and has admitted to having troubles with HD development. As a result Nintendo plans many partnerships with Japanese third party companies in order to develop games together.

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Mr Khan on 05 February 2013

I rather want to lock this, just because we already have a thread about it, and if you're following the NeoGAF thread, Digital Foundry jumped the gun (surprise surprise)

Not sure if i will, though.

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osed125 on 05 February 2013

We already had one about this, just with a different source...well they are using DF so yeah it's the same.

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Deyon on 05 February 2013

So, it's gonna get Dreamcasted?

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aikohualda on 05 February 2013

underwhelming??? ps4 and next box is not even out yet!!!! come on...

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freebs2 on 05 February 2013

Actally, if you're following the NeoGAF thread they haven't really figured it out yet.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=511628

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Galaki on 05 February 2013

So, looking at a picture of the gpu dye is called reverse engineer now?

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Maris on 05 February 2013

Galaki said:
So, looking at a picture of the gpu dye is called reverse engineer now?

The people looking at it are reverse engineers. They're making the claims now, but they'll get the degree later.

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disolitude on 05 February 2013

Meh...people on this site really need to chillax about console power. 3DS rapes PSVita in terms of fun factor and it's like 1/2 as powerful...