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Sharu on 26 May 2015

As I understand, the game on PC/X1/PS4 isn't even good. So no big loss for WiiU owners, but a big fall with a face in the dirt for Slightly Mad.



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SubiyaCryolite on 26 May 2015
JNK said:
bonzobanana said:


The wii u gpu (radeon part) is either 176 or 352 gflops according to the strip down however there is also the original wii gpu in there and other elements to support wii compatibility. The fact is the wii u gpu is on a cheap 40 or 45nm fabrication process but is not consuming enough power to be 352 gflops so its highly likely to be 176 gflops but that still means its far superior to the 360 as there are many generations of improvement, improved feature set and 32MB of blisteringly fast memory available. Whatever it is 176 or 352 gflops no one is claiming the wii u gpu isn't superior to ps3 and 360.

The big issue is the cpu, we know its a triple cpu identical to the original wii cpu but running at 1.25ghz. It's a basic 32bit risc processor from the last century and doesn't compete in performance with 360 or ps3 because those consoles while having slightly less performance by mhz run their cpu's at 3.2ghz not 1.25ghz and so its an easy win for them. 

That brings me around nicely to my final point and that is Project Cars is clearly a racing game with very high cpu requirements because they are taking car simulation to a higher level. This is where the wii u is poor. You can't just downgrade the wii u's graphics to 480p and sort it because the wii u simply hasn't got the cpu resources to run the game. It seems likely to me that the wii u gpu is probably fit for purpose but the cpu can't cope. The ps3 and 360 probably can't run it due to memory requirements and the wii u can't because of cpu requirements. 

The wii u version may have happened if they hadn't abandoned the ps3 and 360 versions. Then all 3 powerpc consoles could have justified development. Yes it would have been simplified to the weakest part of each console but it could still have been a enjoyable title for those 3 consoles.

It never made any commercial sense to just release it on wii u in addition to all the x86 versions.


where do u get that information? They are wrong.

Nobody can say anything about the gflops its just estimate becasue of the size of the gpu chip. Its most likely similar a radeon hd 5600-800 series. also gflops doesnt say to much about real worl perfomance, its just a theoretical max.

 

the wii us cpu is an out of order cpu so the low clock speed shouldnt be to much of an problem. 

Yeah, as someone whose owned both a Wii U and a 5600 series card (5670) I can safely say that you are giving its GPU way too much credit. The 5670 could run 7th gen ports at high/ultra and 900p. Wii U can't do that,  never has, never will. While efficiency is appreciated you can't dismiss the low clock speed and core count.



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine

SubiyaCryolite on 26 May 2015
Sharu said:
As I understand, the game on PC/X1/PS4 isn't even good. So no big loss for WiiU owners, but a big fall with a face in the dirt for Slightly Mad.

You understand wrong



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine

Sharu on 26 May 2015
SubiyaCryolite said:
Sharu said:
As I understand, the game on PC/X1/PS4 isn't even good. So no big loss for WiiU owners, but a big fall with a face in the dirt for Slightly Mad.

You understand wrong

Oh, if 'isn't even good' is wrong, then 'the shit' is more correct for this game?



Angelv577 on 26 May 2015
Sharu said:
As I understand, the game on PC/X1/PS4 isn't even good. So no big loss for WiiU owners, but a big fall with a face in the dirt for Slightly Mad.

Well it is good.  It's not locked 60 fps but most of the time stay at 50 fps- 60 fps.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4JIBaGBWU  ps4 version got a 84 metascore.  Sorry to dissapoint you.



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Sharu on 26 May 2015
Angelv577 said:
Sharu said:
As I understand, the game on PC/X1/PS4 isn't even good. So no big loss for WiiU owners, but a big fall with a face in the dirt for Slightly Mad.

Well it is good.  It's not locked 60 fps but most of the time stay at 50 fps- 60 fps.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4JIBaGBWU

I don't speak about technical details. I mean the game itself. A lot of people I heard saying Forza5/Driveclub is much better.



Angelv577 on 26 May 2015
Sharu said:
Angelv577 said:

Well it is good.  It's not locked 60 fps but most of the time stay at 50 fps- 60 fps.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4JIBaGBWU

I don't speak about technical details. I mean the game itself. A lot of people I heard saying Forza5/Driveclub is much better.

Well it has a 82 gamerankings score with 16 reviews so I guess it's good if you are into sim racing.



SubiyaCryolite on 26 May 2015
Sharu said:
SubiyaCryolite said:

You understand wrong

Oh, if 'isn't even good' is wrong, then 'the shit' is more correct for this game?

Denial is not just a river in Egypt. But whatever makes you feel better.



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine

SubiyaCryolite on 26 May 2015
Sharu said:
Angelv577 said:

Well it is good.  It's not locked 60 fps but most of the time stay at 50 fps- 60 fps.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4JIBaGBWU

I don't speak about technical details. I mean the game itself. A lot of people I heard saying Forza5/Driveclub is much better.

Metacritic and common sense says otherwise.



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine

sosimple on 26 May 2015

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