bigusdickus said: @fazz Sorry, my mistake. I thought the PS3 was 3.5GHz, it's only 3.2GHz therefore only ~31 times faster. @LordTheNightKnight The Wii is single core. Find out what a "unit" is and let me know. I suspect it's just a thread. It's actually my opinion that DMC4 could easily be done on the Wii, or the XBox 1 or PS2 for that matter. Obviously it wouldn't have 720p graphics, less audio detail, and maybe slightly different gameplay to cater for the different controller, with a Classic Controller option maybe. It's up to Capcom if they think it's worth the effort of completely rewriting the game. Maybe if enough Wii owners pester them... |
A core is a full on CPU processor. A unit is processor just dedicated to one type of processing. For example, all the 6th gen CPUs had an extra unit built in just to handle floating point calculations, so the cores would be free to handle other things.
The Wii unofficial specs state that in addition to the main core and the floating point unit, it has four to five extra units. Two or three handle the Wii channels, and the other two handle the number crunching beyond what the main core could normally do.
So even though Braodway is a single core processor, it has a bunch of extra mini processors. So it's a multi-unit processor like the Cell (since the SPEs are not full CPU core). Note I am just referring to the state of having more than one unit. I'm not implying it's anywhere near as powerful or fast, just a lot more than the 6th gen systems.