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curl-6 on 07 May 2013
AnthonyW86 said:
curl-6 said:
AnthonyW86 said:
JazzB1987 said:
snowdog said:
Yup, both the Zelda and Japanese Garden tech demos are very impressive...and they were done within the space of a few months with unfinished and underpowered dev kits.

Of course once this or anything by anyone else is released that's beyond the PS3 and 360 to reproduce you'll still have people with an agenda in denial. The Wii U third party trailer at E3 a couple of years ago is a prime example of this.


Yup there is a "group"of people that always go.   "Its not more powerful than our current console"   And when they are proven wrong they  change to  "of course its better its  XY years newer than our old console  silly you"   and when their new console comes out  "WiiU is so much weaker than our console  how embarassing for Nintendo"


Those people =  sʇoıpı

The Zelda demo looked a bit to polished in my opinion, and almost perfectly sharp. It was like watching the PC version of a multi-platform game with additional filtering options, i don't think we will see Wii-U games that look that sharp. Also the demo showed one confined space.

What makes you think the Wii U couldn't pull off "additional filtering options"?

It can but but it would be way to heavy, the demo shown seems to be running at full-hd with additional filtering. I don't expect any 3d game on Wii-U to run at 1080P.

It's already happened: 



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Soleron on 07 May 2013
walsufnir said:
Soleron said:
walsufnir said:
Soleron said:
Wikipedia's not a source. It's the encyclopedia ANYONE can edit. Was probably just edited in as a joke.


As it is Wikipedia it would be easy for to check when it was edited...

So you believe that AMD had "mario", "luigi", "koopa", "wario" and "boom" as codenames?


Where do you get this from? I only told you that before you make assumptions you should use the tools they provide and then you can easily find out if this was "just edited".

It's absurd enough to dismiss out of hand.

But I did what you said and they were added at some point in the last year all together.



ethomaz on 07 May 2013

Soleron said:

So you believe that AMD had "mario", "luigi", "koopa", "wario" and "boom" as codenames?

Luigi and Mario are internal codenames for RV710 and RV730... no Wikipedia only.

And I see no issue with that... it is know way before the Wii U launch in the tech forums.

And not... these codenames have nothing to do with Wii U's GPU.

 



Soleron on 07 May 2013
ethomaz said:

Soleron said:

So you believe that AMD had "mario", "luigi", "koopa", "wario" and "boom" as codenames?

Luigi and Mario are internal codenames for RV710 and RV730... no Wikipedia only.

And I see no issue with that... it is know way before the Wii U launch in the tech forums.

And not... these codenames have nothing to do with Wii U's GPU.

 

Source? I can't find any mentions on the internet before late 2012. The 4xxx series was released in 2008.



curl-6 on 07 May 2013

Wii U's GPU isn't any of these; it's not an off-the-shelf part, its highly customized to the point that even after getting detailed photos the tech-heads at gaf still can't agree on what's what, or what large portions of it even do.