Here is some comments from a developer
http://www.gustavhalling.com/2011/06/08/wiiu-thoughts-nintendos-new-console/- It’s not a big step up from consoles as x360 or PS3, it is better hardware wise but when the new xbox and ps4 comes it will be runned down again, wanted to see something much stronger.
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I dont think the end game results will be significantly better than x360 and PS3. But the extra RAM will help with player limits that are stopping x360/ps3 today in for example BF3.
So he says it's not a big step up from PS360 here, but then goes way beyond that in the next quote.
It's also good to know that WiiU will likely be able to run any PS360 game natively at a minimum of 720p with a solid frame rate and all effects enabled while adding more players/characters on screen at the same time (I'm reading between the lines here)
Didn't say it wouldn't compete with current gen.
But I know how much RAM the WiiU has and I have an idea of how much "we" developers would like to see in the next Xbox and PS4, and they differ a lot.
Still, the WiiU will be the most powerful console out there when it's released, BY FAR!
But I wonder for how long...
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And I agree with the controller, it looks amazing, but I dont see you playing BF3 on it (switching like they did in the rpg they showed) but maybe have the minimap up with chat support etc, that would be awesome!
The future will tell =)
So we just went from "not a big step" to "most powerful BY FAR" in the matter of a few comments. ok.
We can assume the WiiU probably has between 1.5-2GB of RAM if rumors are to be believed, and we can probably guess that developers want to see about 8GB of RAM in PS4/720 if Crytek is to considered the majority voice. Truth is, there is never enough RAM as you can always use more. May not necessarily need more, but you could always use it and will always want it. Unfortunately, it's neither free nor is it cost efficient to add way more than optimized code should need in a closed box environment.
Also good to see creativity flowing with the BF3 designers on how to use the controller. I look forward to the basics of what was demonstrated as being possible being used by most 3rd parties.
This guy also had this to say....
- All the Zelda stuff was RENDERED, we havent seen anything play on the console in their show, all “good looking” stuff was rendered. BF3 was from our movies.
No I'm sorry but you that need to get your facts about the Nintendo E3 press conference.
In the interview given 15 minutes after on Spike with Reggie (you know the NA Nintendo boss) he said that Zelda was rendered and showed how "it could look".
Not necessarily that they will do it like that.
Not saying that they have some kind of live demo of Zelda running somewhere but what was shown for us there wasent "live" or "gameplay", just a rendered scene.
He is saying that the Zelda Demo is pre-rendered, and when someone tried to correct him and tell him it was running realtime, he told them to get their facts straight.
But we know it was running real time, because you could manipulate the camera and the scene by turning it from night to day and viewing from any angle you please.
Also the Bird Demo was running real time as you could also manipulate the camera angles on that as well...
and then there is Ghost Recon & Killer
Clowns Freaks from Outer Space, both of which were running live off of prototype dev kits and Ghost Recon was playable on the floor.
In other words, it looks like Devs that just got their dev kits are talking out of their ass and I would take the earlier vague second hand comments with a grain of salt.
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Processing Power likely means CPU power. and if the WiiU CPU is 50% stronger, better and faster than PS3Cell, then we are off to a really good start. Especially since it will likely do it with a similar clock speed, less cores, a whole lot more embedded RAM and a far cheaper price tag.
We also know that if the WiiU is using a R700 (likely 4770 - 4850) GPU, then it will be 4-5x more powerful than the 360 GPU which was already better than the PS3 GPU.
50% more powerful is a very vague statement coming 2nd hand from someone who (probably wouldn't know any better) heard it from someone else that was probably either talking out of their ass, or purposely being vague, since they don't have final hardware and probably just got their dev kits a few weeks ago.