Rumor: Wii U 50% More Powerful Than PS3

[ShadowSoldier]

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Yeah, we know. Don't worry about it.

 

[Sterling]

I'm trollin trollin trollin trollin trollin trollin trollin trollin trollin trollin trollin trollin trollin

Yeah, we know. Don't worry about it.

Actually, looking at the Wii Vs, 360 and PS3, I'd say he's going to be right. If Microsoft and Sony have a 4 year observation period without their hand forcing, that's 4 years. Plenty of time to top Nintendo in almost every way.

QUOTE(Guild McCommunist @ Jun 13 2011, 02:14 PM)

The tech demos didn't peg it as like next gen powerful, and they're still not selling me on content. People are just dying over it already because it's Nintendo and they can only think in terms of "OMG FIRST PARTIES".

I still don't believe it'll be powerful enough for the next gen.

Why is it you always negative to Nintendo?

Actually, Guild's the only one who has a clue in this thread.

I wouldn't say he has any more insight than the rest of us. He personally dislikes the Wii. From a technical stand point and his personal experience. His prediction is heavily weighed by how much he dislikes the Wii controls. This goes double because the Wii U has those same wonky controls plus an added factor of "What the hell is this".

 

[Pyrofyr]

It's funny when people say graphics aren't everything, because the power has much more to do with it than just graphics, being able to shell out the same top end graphics while handling a lot of other stuff at the same time is important, you can just do more, when there is more. 50% more than the PS3 certainly sounds fair though.

 

[DSGamer64]

50% more processing power means the processor is able to do more then the competition. I am not really surprised if it is faster, we are talking about a server designed processor that was created to access tons of data. The Power7 based processor is supposedly similar to the one in the IBM Watson computer, which had an excessive amount of DRAM for fast data access like the Wii U will have. I think the reason is because of the high density discs Nintendo has been developing for it, will require a faster system to load the discs.

 

[Slyakin]

I don't know, the WiiU looks good now, but I'm sure that the next E3 will have it be so outclassed that it won't be funny.

 

[Jehuty25]

It'd be nice if the Wii U could play and natively support mkv.

 

[machomuu]

It'd be nice if the Wii U could play and natively support mkv.

That would be random.

 

[awssk8er]

From the Zelda tech demo, and the bird scene, you can tell that it is much more powerful.

Out of the three consoles (Assuming Sony and Microsoft release new consoles), it will definitely be the least powerful, but honestly... I can't imagine anything more powerful than that. At that point, graphics can't really improve, in my opinion. Oh well, they probably said that when N64 came out.

 

[Rydian]

It's funny when people say graphics aren't everything, because the power has much more to do with it than just graphics

Such as physics, AI, and game logic in general.

 

[DeMoN]

And the PS4 will be 50% more powerful than the Wii U. The cycle goes on and on...

 

[OrGoN3]

Wow, really? Something released 6 years later will be more powerful!?!?!? Get out of town! Since when?

The damn thing is powered by an IBM Power 6 (or 7, who knows) variant. Seriously now. Nintendo under-powered their last two systems. It's obvious they will over-power this one. Plus, the thing's gotta display 5 screens at once~!

 

[ojsinnerz.]

IMO the Gamecube had a really crappy library. I consider it to be Nintendo's worst system that wasn't a failure.

Gamecube? Worse than the Wii? Hahaha, surely, you jest. Sales wise, sure. Everything else? Nope.

The Wii has been the biggest disappointment of all Nintendo consoles. I stopped giving a shit about Mario (Except for Galaxy), a whole bunch of interesting titles got successors/remakes on another console (MadWorld with Anarchy Reigns, Tales of Graces with ToGF, Rune Factory Oceans is on both, No More Heroes with No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, House of the Dead: Overkill with House of the Dead Overkill HD) and unlike with the situation with Capcom's 4 Gamecube games that went to the PS2, at least the Gamecube games looked and played better. There were hundreds of useless add-ons that were used for less than 3 games, and just a general lack of strong titles.

Donkey Kong Country Returns. Muramasa: The Demon's Blade. Little King's Story. That was it for the Wii games that interested me.

Gamecube had games like Tales of Symphonia, Eternal Darkness, F-Zero, Ikaruga, Pikmin series (Also on the wii, but if you played it before, it doesn't matter), Resident Evil remake (Same deal as above), Skies of Arcadia Legends (The other version was on Dreamcast), and a whole bunch of other games. The PS2 had a greater list, but the Gamecube was a very good console nonetheless.

 

[Wombo Combo]

Content is king without it I can give a shit less how powerful it is.

 

[SinHarvest24]

Well with the increased power, i can only hope Nintendo starts to make some hardcore console games. Seriously the Wii disappointed me after a while.

 

[ManFranceGermany]

And the PS4 will be 50% more powerful than the Wii U. The cycle goes on and on...

probably more like 700%

 

[Fel]

Nintendo was always more about the quality of the games, so I don't mind if the next PS3/Xbox console will have way better graphics since the ones from the tech demo satisfied me. I prefer content over graphics since I'm used to and still like even older visuals, like from Might and Magic 7, Baldur's Gate and so on. So as long as it looks beautiful to me and I like the gameplay (the tech demos were great) I don't mind if the rival consoles will have better power or not.

 

[NES SNES V.B. N64 G.C. Wii WiiU]

Wow, really? Something released 6 years later will be more powerful!?!?!? Get out of town! Since when?

The damn thing is powered by an IBM Power 6 (or 7, who knows) variant. Seriously now. Nintendo under-powered their last two systems. It's obvious they will over-power this one. Plus, the thing's gotta display 5 screens at once~!

No, only one WiiU controller can be used on each console, the extra players have to use wiimotes.

 

[emigre]

It'd be nice if the Wii U could play and natively support mkv.

It would be nice bit it won't happen. If the Wii U plays DVDs, we should consider that a victory as Ninty don't seem to regard media playback as important.

 

[KingVamp]

And the PS4 will be 50% more powerful than the Wii U. The cycle goes on and on...

probably more like 700%

Yes... at 7 times the price of the WiiU.

Do you honestly believe it be such a jump?

 

[jalaneme]

the Wii U could be 100% more powerful than the ps3 I couldn't care less, we will be still getting the same games they will just be in HD nintendo should have concentrated on innovention instead of graphics and tried to be unique.

now because of the graphics boost we are going to get a lot of war games like call of duty on the console which spoils the image of nintendo, the xbox and ps3 is where war games should stay, not on a nintendo console.