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fatslob-:O said:
F0X said:
I hate to see this discussion devolve so much. :/

Let me rephrase something I've said earlier: I could choose to believe this information, and that would be fine. There's nothing wrong with putting stock in a good theory, especially when it has supporting evidence. Or I can wait for hard confirmation before coming to my own conclusions. Or I could simply not care at all and make my conclusions about the hardware based on whether or not it has games I desperately want to play.

And all of those viewpoints are logical in their own sense, so I'm left wondering why this thread is rapidly becoming devoid of respect, and by extension, respect for logical thought.

Dudes like eyeofcore in this is an eye sore to high tech discussion. If we keep ignorant people like him out we can solve the puzzle more easily without disruptions from him. Others like Teriol keep going on to damage control. 

It's devoid of respect because they can't respect an opposing view of another but yeah you should buy the consoles based on games not hardware. 

Personally I think you've handled yourself in this thread pretty well and it's generally been quite an interesting discussion into the inner workings of the WiiU with some plausible (and likely) theories.

It's made for some fun reading



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Scoobes said:
fatslob-:O said:
F0X said:
I hate to see this discussion devolve so much. :/

Let me rephrase something I've said earlier: I could choose to believe this information, and that would be fine. There's nothing wrong with putting stock in a good theory, especially when it has supporting evidence. Or I can wait for hard confirmation before coming to my own conclusions. Or I could simply not care at all and make my conclusions about the hardware based on whether or not it has games I desperately want to play.

And all of those viewpoints are logical in their own sense, so I'm left wondering why this thread is rapidly becoming devoid of respect, and by extension, respect for logical thought.

Dudes like eyeofcore in this is an eye sore to high tech discussion. If we keep ignorant people like him out we can solve the puzzle more easily without disruptions from him. Others like Teriol keep going on to damage control. 

It's devoid of respect because they can't respect an opposing view of another but yeah you should buy the consoles based on games not hardware. 

Personally I think you've handled yourself in this thread pretty well and it's generally been quite an interesting discussion into the inner workings of the WiiU with some plausible (and likely) theories.

It's made for some fun reading

Dat master race knowledge of mine LOL. 



i don't get you fatslob, you derail threads about the WiiU/specs, you think the PSP is more powerful than the DS...

i mean look at this



at this point I think no real Nintendo fan will care what specs the Wii U has!!! I for one don't care if it has the specs of a 15 year old Sega Dreamcast (I'm so tired of the BS about specs taking a rumor as fact) as long as it produces games as beautiful as SM3DW, X, Rayman Legends, Bayo2 etc!!! People shouldn't give a shit about which console has the biggest D!ck as long as it satisfies their needs no? Besides PC outshines any of the "big" 3's consoles anyday...so does Steam Machines!!!



oni-link said:
at this point I think no real Nintendo fan will care what specs the Wii U has!!! I for one don't care if it has the specs of a 15 year old Sega Dreamcast (I'm so tired of the BS about specs taking a rumor as fact) as long as it produces games as beautiful as SM3DW, X, Rayman Legends, Bayo2 etc!!! People shouldn't give a shit about which console has the biggest D!ck as long as it satisfies their needs no? Besides PC outshines any of the "big" 3's consoles anyday...so does Steam Machines!!!

If only more were like you.



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MohammadBadir said:

i don't get you fatslob, you derail threads about the WiiU/specs, you think the PSP is more powerful than the DS...

i mean look at this

How do I derail (When I'm not being attacked by someone of the likes of eyeofcore and teriol in this thread.) when I'm also talking about the wii us hardware too ? 

@Bold Gee yeah the PSP is more powerful than a DS LOL. If you mean 3DS I already acknowledged that it's already more powerful so no need to get defensive LOL.

@Picture This was posted at someones wall. I don't see an issue with that comment. I wanted fun on the forums and I got it. 



MohammadBadir said:

i don't get you fatslob, you derail threads about the WiiU/specs, you think the PSP is more powerful than the DS...

i mean look at this

Hey man, Ninjablade was funny, I had a lot of fun slapping him around and ignoring him to piss him off, he was good entertainment to me! He did a lot of copy paste without words of his own on tech stuff and without reliable source though, guy really didn't have much originality is the problem.



OT, the information contained within the OP does not constitute proof but what I really want to say is...

I have a dream..........that people would stop worrying about tech and start talking about actual games again! (this is not directly solely at this thread)

The Wii U punches above its weight, this much we know. What its weight is exactly we don't know. We will get games at least as good looking as we have with the HD twins, better looking than the HD twins, and then if we are really lucky we might get some games that take a step to bridging the gap between the HD twins and the new HD twins. However, amongst all 5 consoles there are going to be very few games that are bleeding edge, it's clear at this point that that ship has already sailed (with the PC on board).

What we will get is the best-looking iterations of Nintendo franchises that we have ever seen, and with the artistic skill they possess, that is no small thing. What would be even better, and what gets me excited, is if we get the best-playing iterations of Nintendo franchises we have ever seen.

This pointless to and fro over, what often amounts to, very small differences and needless comparisons only serve to fuel people's insecurities and diminish their enjoyment of games that they might otherwise enjoy.



dahuman said:
MohammadBadir said:

i don't get you fatslob, you derail threads about the WiiU/specs, you think the PSP is more powerful than the DS...

i mean look at this

Hey man, Ninjablade was funny, I had a lot of fun slapping him around and ignoring him to piss him off, he was good entertainment to me! He did a lot of copy paste without words of his own on tech stuff and without reliable source though, guy really didn't have much originality is the problem.

Everyone around him and himself were very funny if I say so myself. 



ViktorBKK said:

Chip designs get more efficient over time, but engineers are not wizards. Especially when it comes to GPUs, where things are highly paralellized. You can improve a design and gain maybe 15% performance under the same thermal ceiling. You can't ever get 100%. Ever seen a 100W AMD card beat a 200W nVidia card? When both cards are in the same proccess node, it cannot happen. Also consider that the GPUs from all 3 current gen consoles, come from the same fab(TSMC).


That's going to the extreme.
However, it's also not always true either, especially for a mature fabrication process verses an older one.




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