Wii U blitzes PS3 and 360 as the "greenest" console

[BORTZ]

That's interesting. Last time around, Nintendo Wii had the highest of the volatile chemicals involved in the console. This time, i mean it does make sense, since the PS3 and 360 are 6 years old.

Also PS3 got into some trouble a few years back because they were using lead solder on the boards, and had to stop selling to the UK till they got it all figured out. Who does that actually set back? The UK, because lead free solders are harder to solder with, and now we are having lots (chemical) more problems with the lead free than the leaded.

 

[Issac]

The thing with green peace's scoring system is that nintendo won't give out just any information to them, and that also gives them low scores.

 

[dickfour]

On my list of reasons to buy a console energy consumption aka being green is number 3542. Basically I don't give a shit and this would never impact my buying choices

 

[SpaceJump]

Thanks for the great read!

 

[Hyro-Sama]

soulx didn't post this?

 

[Treeko]

I wonder where you have found the CPU to be clocked at 1.24Ghz(only),Cause my sources tell me that its a

• IBM PowerPC 750-based tri-core processor "Espresso" reportedly clocked at 1.24 GHz.
• Firstly its a Tri-core processor
• Secondly the total overall Processing power should be 3.72Ghz shouldn't it?correct me if I am wrong.

 

[emigre]

soulx didn't post this?

Did I give a pro-Nintendo slant to it?

 

[Foxi4]

• Secondly the total overall Processing power should be 3.72Ghz shouldn't it?correct me if I am wrong.

CPU frequency does not denote power. Three cores working at 1,24Ghz are just that - three cores working at 1,24Ghz. Power is denoted by MIPS.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Did I give a pro-Nintendo slant to it?

Nope.

However, the most desperate of fanboys could take an unbiased view of a Nintendo related subject and use it as a pro.

 

[Joe88]

it's from 2010....

won't let you buy adult rated games till 11pm?
why?

and? I cant find any current data, but using less electricity doesnt mean much when you are dumping harmful chemicals, and massive amount of e-waste, or heavily poluting the air with their factories

 

[Treeko]

CPU frequency does not denote power. Three cores working at 1,24Ghz are just that - three cores working at 1,24Ghz. Power is denoted by MIPS.

Well that was a let down then

I hate Nintendo for sticking with the Same CPU type again(I understand that it is good for backwards compatibility)but come on how much are they gonna drag this on its been 3 generations,the GameCube's Gecko CPU was just a under clocked Wii CPU,then the Wii's CPU exact same thing only more speed,Wii u new Architecture but over all the same thing isn't it?and then they complain about loosing 3rd party support I am gonna pass on the Wii u,I am hoping for a True successor to the GameCube,Nintendo you'd better not mess that one up

 

[Eerpow]

Why is this news again? We knew about the lower wattage a looong time ago, Wii U at 75W compared to the PS3's 80W. A slower CPU means that they can make a smaller system less prone to overheating.

And just to clear things up, power consumption and CPU speed tell us jack shit about graphical performance considering how the newer tech is laid out. What we need to know is what the GPU is capable of doing since it will also handle a lot of the processes instead of the CPU this time around, until then every "news" concerning what the Wii U is capable of is 100% useless. We have yet to find a single developer who has complained about what the GPU, RAM speed/space etc is capable of. However everyone is complaining about the CPU clock since it makes porting games from previous generation platforms a real pain in the ass because of how the PS3 and 360 heavily relies on raw CPU performance.

 

[FAST6191]

I hate Nintendo for sticking with the Same CPU type again(I understand that it is good for backwards compatibility)but come on how much are they gonna drag this on its been 3 generations,the GameCube's Gecko CPU was just a under clocked Wii CPU,then the Wii's CPU exact same thing only more speed,Wii u new Architecture but over all the same thing isn't it?and then they complain about loosing 3rd party support I am gonna pass on the Wii u,I am hoping for a True successor to the GameCube,Nintendo you'd better not mess that one up

As opposed to Sony's tossing the developers into a brand new architecture and expecting them to hit the ground running?

 

[Eerpow]

As opposed to Sony's tossing the developers into a brand new architecture and expecting them to hit the ground running?

Which is exactly what Nintendo is doing right now, it's a brand new architecture that requires devs to take use of the GPGPU instead. A faster CPU would have upped the price and size of the system yes but at least we wouldn't have such a pathetic launch with games clearly not made for the newer hardware.

 

[Bladexdsl]

ninty should have called it the green-U

 

[ComeTurismO]

This thread needs more valwin.

 

[Foxi4]

I hate Nintendo for sticking with the Same CPU type again(I understand that it is good for backwards compatibility)but come on how much are they gonna drag this on its been 3 generations,the GameCube's Gecko CPU was just a under clocked Wii CPU,then the Wii's CPU exact same thing only more speed,Wii u new Architecture but over all the same thing isn't it?and then they complain about loosing 3rd party support I am gonna pass on the Wii u,I am hoping for a True successor to the GameCube,Nintendo you'd better not mess that one up

It's actually very logical to "stick" to a given architecture and improve it over time. We use x86 (and now the 64-bit version, the x86_64) architecture for most personal computers and nobody's complaining - in fact, it's great that we are, it makes programming easier. It's a matter of how much the architecture is improved that counts.

 

[PizzaPino]

and people say its not next generation

 

[bowser]

 

[notmeanymore]

One of my favorite phrases when reading someone else's writing is "There's grammar all over the place."

And let me tell you sir, there is grammar allll over the place in this article.

Will you fix it or shall I?

In other news, I stopped caring about measuring how green I can be, though I do have a disdain for creating useless heat, ever since I learned about entropy. Forget about killing the environment. I'm wasting our limited amount of universal energy just to sit there and make heat? Yuck.