tripenfall on 06 January 2014
| bonzobanana said: There is one huge factor in wii u's favour that people are overlooking. The wii u is an incredibly cheap design with low manufacturing costs. Nintendo have tried to sell the wii u at an inflated price and its struggled but ultimately the wii u will have lower manufacturing costs than a hard drive equipped ps3 or 360. The wii u is fully capable of being sold at a very low price. There is hardly anything of value in the wii u component wise and they have not used functionality that requires licensing. 1. The chipset is on a 40/45nm process. GPU 40nm and cpu 45nm this is the same or worse than 360 and PS3. The xbox one and ps4 are on a much more expensive 28nm process. 2. There is no hard drive and only a small amount of low speed flash memory. 3. It requires far less power than 360 or PS3 and hence all power components are of lower spec and cheaper. 4. The gamepad screen is just a very low cost resistive screen probably only costing a few dollars. 5. The DDR memory chips are very low speed basic chips, below the memory bandwidth of 360 and PS3 (wii u uses embedded 32MB of memory to compensate for this). 6. Optical drives are not expensive now even higher density drives and there is no support for multiple layers on wii u. 7. They have no licensed royalties to pay. The wii u will not output dolby or dts 5.1 or 7.1 it just uses 5.1 lpcm. It does not have any bluray movie playback or media centre functionality requiring licensed codecs. 8. The radeon gpu is near entry level mobility spec with low licensing costs. 9. The gamepad is missing some functionality like analogue triggers and they use a very low spec battery pack that lasts only 4-5hrs. 10, Obviously the case etc is very basic, minimal size and the circuit board for both the console and gamepad is very low cost. I'm just making the point Nintendo can price the wii u far more aggressively than ps4 and xbox one. cost components in a way that maximises their performance. Will people be predicting the xbox one will outsell the wii u if the wii u is priced at £99 or £129 etc, maybe $150 in the states. The wii u is fully capable of reaching a budget price point for next christmas that would be impossible for ps4 and xbox one without absolutely huge losses. Clearly Nintendo loves to make huge profits on weak hardware but they have a card they can play if they have to. Also the wii u is the only console which is an upgrade route. For current wii owners who basically only use their wii casually, fitness games etc. The wii u represents an upgrade path where they can still use all their old wii software. The pricing of the wii u console may not be right yet but of those 100 million wii users I think many will upgrade when the wii u console hits the right price. The key thing is at the moment the wii u doesn't represent a fair performance level for its current pricing but that can change. I think the ps4 is the almost definite winner of this generation but its harder to tell with xbox one vs wii u. I mean the ps4 can basically do anything the xbox one can do but better with the exception of kinect features which most people don't want. The xbox 360 was the king of multiformat gaming vs ps3 but this time around the ps4 beats xbox one considerably by a far higher margin. Ultimately either could beat the other depending on console pricing, marketing and their exclusive games. Both companies have been poorly managed recently with a lot of poor decisions made. I'm still amazed at how low Nintendo set the wii u spec to the point where it struggles to match ps3 and 360 for multiform games. |
"Lets not forget the wii u on average performs lower than 360 and PS3 and the design is using very low cost technology of today."
Really?
Are you using a few lazy ports for a launch console as your basis? Man, full credit to the new consoles but if you think Wii U is below 7th gen consoles then you are dreaming. See it's not a matter of opinion, its FLOPS and there is no debate. I don't give a flying fuck at a rolling doghnut if you like Nintendo but to talk about PS3's specs in such glowing terms in 2014 removes any credability you might have had.
