RUMOR - Wii U to have more than 1 GB of RAM

[Valwin]

Nintendo is building this thing like a 2005 gaming pc minus the heavy os!

consoles dont work the same as a pc

they can have less ram

 

[AlanJohn]

"The wiiU will be 500% more powerful than the PS3 and Xbox 360"

 

[chartube12]

Nintendo is building this thing like a 2005 gaming pc minus the heavy os!

consoles dont work the same as a pc

they can have less ram

I aleady knew that shit head.

 

[BORTZ]

"The wiiU will be 500% more powerful than the PS3 and Xbox 360"

And 500% less powerful than the Xbox 720 and the PS4. Shit lol

 

[Elrinth]

ram is as cheap as chips now i say put as much as they want in it!

I'm with this guy... Ram is cheap. No need to be an idiot and sneak with it. Just throw in 2gb+.
That way they can have plenty of stuff running and everything in the memory.
Big real time strategy games can easily run off to 1gigabyte of ram usage.
What they usually need to have:
1. Download manager, 2. Actual Game, 3. OS in background with notifications and instant messaging

What else could be added?
* Browser with it's tabs.
Then I can't really come to think of anything else.


Or they could do something radical and weird and add like 64gigabyte of ram. Then use like 60gigabyte+ for the game only and stream the whole game into the memory while playing.
First stream the locations around the current play events, then stream the rest of the game meanwhile. A bit overkill and probably will never be used

 

[Skelletonike]

Nintendo is building this thing like a 2005 gaming pc minus the heavy os!

consoles dont work the same as a pc

they can have less ram

I aleady knew that shit head.

The current 360 and PS3 can play some pretty good games, if you compare a let's say... Skyrim for example, which is a recent tittle with it's PC version, can see a few dif's, not that big of a difference graphical wise, although most games that are released on the PC and on other platforms are usually watered down a little, they still manage to look pretty good.
Now, seeing as it's assumed the Wii U is more powerful than the PS3 and the 360, how would that be the same as a 2005 computer?

 

[silver_ryder]

Nintendo won't ever advance their graphics to anything hyper realistic because they're too afraid of losing their child audience, kid friendly games with uber realistic graphics doesn't do so well. If they make a realistic Zelda, with Havok engine detail, guaranteed to be atleast T.

Wii was the exception, SNES, N64 and GC Where far more powerful....

Blindness is terrible...!

Some one remember to call a game "Casual" and that spread like a virus, marketing at is best...

 

[DiscostewSM]

Nintendo won't ever advance their graphics to anything hyper realistic because they're too afraid of losing their child audience, kid friendly games with uber realistic graphics doesn't do so well. If they make a realistic Zelda, with Havok engine detail, guaranteed to be atleast T.

You sir have no idea what you're talking about. Games are not rated based on whether they are realistic or cartoony. Games are rated based on "content". By your definition, they could make Conker's Bad Fur Day rated E for everyone by using cel-shading.

 

[Valwin]

Nintendo is building this thing like a 2005 gaming pc minus the heavy os!

consoles dont work the same as a pc

they can have less ram

I aleady knew that shit head.

well shit head dont say they are building like 2005 pc by that logic the Ps3 is a 2001 pc because all it uses is 512mb of ram

 

[Foxi4]

Nintendo is building this thing like a 2005 gaming pc minus the heavy os!

consoles dont work the same as a pc
they can have less ram

I aleady knew that shit head.

well shit head dont say they are building like 2005 pc by that logic the Ps3 is a 2001 pc because all it uses is 512mb of ram

I can't say that I've heard of regular-run-down-the-mill PC's based on multi-core PowerPC Cell CPU's being popular in 2005.

Consoles != PC's

Completely different hardware requirements/built.

 

[shakirmoledina]

i think this will help multitasking as is quite common these days. more ram also means more features once homebrew is available (thinking too far?)

 

[Deleted User]

RUMOURS belong up the people who made them tools up's asses

 

[Midna]

It better have more than one gig... Even phones have it nowadays. Sigh.

Phones multitask and run an OS.

 

[Justin121994]

It better have more than one gig... Even phones have it nowadays. Sigh.

Phones multitask and run an OS.

Don't most thing nowadays? Messaging, background downloading, etc?

 

[Midna]

It better have more than one gig... Even phones have it nowadays. Sigh.

Phones multitask and run an OS.

Don't most thing nowadays? Messaging, background downloading, etc?

Consoles generally don't. That could change though.

 

[chris888222]

Nintendo is building this thing like a 2005 gaming pc minus the heavy os!

consoles dont work the same as a pc

they can have less ram

I aleady knew that shit head.

Classify him as a Nintendo fanboy that is true, but please... Everyone deserves some respect. He is indeed stating a true fact.

On topic: I predict the Wii U to have like 1.5GB of RAM. Maybe more maybe less. I just hope Nintendo knows how to utilize it properly.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Nintendo won't ever advance their graphics to anything hyper realistic because they're too afraid of losing their child audience, kid friendly games with uber realistic graphics doesn't do so well. If they make a realistic Zelda, with Havok engine detail, guaranteed to be atleast T.

if you had any idea what you were talking about or even knew your history you'd know that the snes, 64 and gamecube all had beefy gfx and power from the very start. this used to work good in the past just vs sega but now times have changed and gfx and power is no longer the driving force in consoles.

 

[alex.ap.pacman]

I wasn't trolling, I was being serious, it was an opinion not a statement so calm down.

 

[Midna]

Not trolling?
Well that's unfortunate.

I'm not sure what you're saying, actually.

Are you implying that Nintendo will never implement powerful graphics because that would ruin the art style of their games? Well that's pants on head retarded. That's like saying you can't run TF2 on a GTX 590 because it's not realistic enough.

Or are you perhaps saying that Nintendo has no need for good graphics hardware, on account of their IPs being stylized? That's wrong too. There are a lot of ways a stylized game can take advantage of good graphical hardware.

Maybe you're just trying to throw a bad spin on the fact that Nintendo will never make Mario hyper-realistic. And, uh, yeah. They won't. What of it?

Either way, I can't read any sense into your post. Regardless of what Nintendo needs to make their first party IPs, they must attract 3rd party devs to the console. They can't make all the games themselves. So they've gotta throw some good hardware in there.

Want to clarify?

 

[KingVamp]

Maybe you're just trying to throw a bad spin on the fact that Nintendo will never make Mario hyper-realistic. And, uh, yeah. They won't. What of it?

Wait, you mean they wouldn't? Man, I was so hoping for this.

:3