RUMOUR: Wii U Less Powerful Than PS3/Xbox 360

[Mantis41]

Let's recap how industry minds have rated the Wii U's power on our Wii U thermometer:

Hot! — Twice as powerful as 360 (anonymous developer); 50% more powerful than PS3 (analyst Arvind Bhatia); Wii U Out-RAMs Xbox 360 and PS3 (Gearbox chief creative officer Brian Martell)

Lukewarm — Wii U is "on par" with PS3 and 360 (Darksiders II developer Vigil Games)

Ice cold — Wii U "less powerful than PS3 and 360" (anonymous developers)

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[Midna]

Oh, the reports are far more varied than just that. We have basically no cohesive picture of what the WIi U will be like. Every source says something different, even sources inside the same company.

E3 will reveal all.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Thought I'd leave this here.

I dunno about you but this doesn't exactly sound "promising".

 

[Deleted member 194275]

Thought I'd leave this here.

I dunno about you but this doesn't exactly sound "promising".

Nintendo almost confirmed that Wii U is not powerful.

At least they confirmed that specs is not on their sight for now

 

[heartgold]

Thought I'd leave this here.

I dunno about you but this doesn't exactly sound "promising".

It's exactly what we have been expecting, it isn't going to compete with PS4/x720 next gen on raw power, I'd assume the improvements on chips within these 7 seven years should give it a better performance over the current gen with more capabilities, but against true next gen no chance.

 

[The Catboy]

You know, Nintendo has never been known to make the most powerful system. This isn't shocking nor news worthy in my option.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

There's a front page post on this new revelation now so we can move it all down there.

 

[DryBones]

Better buy a PS3 LOL

 

[Midna]

Better buy a PS3 LOL

*cough*

 

[sightlight]

the wii u less than wii and it even runs the crytek engine? I knew the 3DS could handle the crytek engine. wow no sayers.......

 

[silver_ryder]

You know, Nintendo has never been known to make the most powerful system. This isn't shocking nor news worthy in my option.

Tell that to SNES (more powerful than Mega Drive), N64 (more powerful than PS1), GC (more powerful than PS2). ;-)

 

[Qtis]

the wii u less than wii and it even runs the crytek engine? I knew the 3DS could handle the crytek engine. wow no sayers.......

No one ever mentioned that the WiiU would be less powerful than the Wii.. Also the rumor stated that it could be less powerful than the PS3/360, which could theoretically be true since calculating power is a bit hard (an i5 from a few years back is less powerful than a new i5 even though the clock speed is the same)..

On the matter of the 3DS and the CryEngine, so far Crytek has only said they're interested in the developing and modifying a working CryEngine for the 3DS. There is so far (AFAIK) no evidence that the CryEngine - or Crysis for that matter - is running on the 3DS.