Topic: Wii U 50% More Powerful than PS3

[the_dan_x]

Is the Wii U more powerful than other current generation consoles?

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rumor/26833

Developers are claiming that the Wii U has 50% more processing power the other current generation consoles on the market. Arvind Bhatiaaa, an analyst with Sterne Agee remarked that, "Some of the developers we spoke to indicated to us that the console will have 50% more processing power compared to the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360." 

Nintendo has yet to confirm this and is historically reluctant to provide any technical details behind the hardware.

[TurdFurgy]

Wasn't that the difference between the Wii and the GameCube?

[BlackNMild2k1]

Wii specs were roughly 1.5x the GC, but it's performance is roughly 2x a GC
which is why we have the term Wii = 2 Gamecubes duct taped together.


We actually discussed this the other day, but I think "50% more processing power" is a very vague statement that could be coming from devs that either only just based it on what they saw at E3 or from devs that only just got their hands on the dev kit a few weeks before E3. I'm taking the comment with a grain of salt as we haven't even seen a dedicated game for the system that is designed to take advantage of it's "processing power".

[Adrock]

I'm reluctant to put any stock in these estimates. What does "50% more powerful than PS3" even look like? Also, developers probably don't have final dev kits. Nintendo's final hardware could end up being significantly more powerful. Or not. Until someone releases the set specs sheet, it's too tough to call. We've been hearing wildly different claims, even from the same developer during the same interview.

In any case, I think Nintendo will be fine on the hardware front. WiiU is already more powerful than the current hardware and anything MS/Sony come out with won't make WiiU look bad by comparison because graphics are beginning to plateau and budgets haven't gone down.

[Lady Mushroom]

I think WiiU will be more powerful than anything on the market today, but considerably less powerful than the successors to PS360. But it is true that graphics are beginning to plateau and large power advances may be hard to sell to a wide public. I have a feeling Microsoft and Sony may wait to see how well the second-screen philosophy works so they can decide whether to copy it.

[Enner]

I wonder if this power bump will mean that all Wii U games will display in a resolution of 1920x1080. Though, that doesn't matter at all if a game's art direction is lacking.


EDIT: Now that I think about it, I hope this vague 50% extra will be used for other things like better computer opponents.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I know one thing, it means that multiplat games will atleast be rendered in 720p-1080p (unlike lots of PS360 games) and run at higher frame rates with more AA, instead of being rendered in 520p-600p @ ~30fps and upscaled to fit your screen(like lots of PS360 games).

[stevey]

150% faster * 2-4 more cores.

Wii^u=A 360 inside a Wii with a few GC duck-taped to the end for good measure

[yoshi1001]

As my mother would say-it's just a number-it's what you do with it that counts.

[Chozo Ghost]

"Some of the developers we spoke to indicated to us that the console will have 50% more processing power compared to the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360."

That's just processing power, right? That doesn't factor in the RAM or the GPU right?

[EasyCure]

was she talking about inches originally?

that was uncalled for and I apologize.

[Chozo Ghost]

Wow! Compare the time EasyCure and me posted in the last two posts. Its exactly the same right down to the second!