Wii U not much more powerful than Vita,... wait no that's wrong

Tyrone Rodriguez, the man behind The Binding of Isaac, says that Nintendo's Wii U isn't much more powerful than Sony's PS Vita handheld and that the lack of horsepower in both may block Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth from coming to these devices. GGG discusses why Rodriguez is wrong to say this about Nintendo's console and why he's not doing any favors for himself, the game or his publisher Nicalis.

[Activemessiah]

Silly man.

[SegaSaturn669]

Id give him a pass. I mean, the wii u specs are easier to quantify. We have a semi functional wii u emulator.
We only recently discovered the usual vita clockspeed.

the psp ran at 222-333 mhz. The vita runs at 400mhz. Not a huge difference. Its probably battery technology holding back processing power.

The irony of this article is that binding of isaac is the only other game than xenoblade that requires a new 3ds to play.

[Miguelitons]

What a stupid comment from a developer. He better should have been quiet. But in the end where does it come from, Nicalis. This will not shine a good light on them.

[garrettbobbyferguson]

"This will not shine a good light on them"

Tyrone and Edmund have been pissing people off with Afterbirth. I don't understand why they're making any comments that might make people angrier.

[Miguelitons]

After these words I don't care anymore if they will bring Afterbirth to the Vita and Wii U, I don't support developers who prefer blaming the hardware than trying to make it work.

[MrBrofist]

I think they better "Call Tyrone...."

um....sorry couldn't resist

[Miguelitons]

haha LOL good one!

[OldGuyStillGaming]

Xenoblade chronicles X says hi😉
I love my wii u way more than the vita I once had..to me it comes down to the games not power of the console

[nodim]

if power is not important then how come you love wiiu more xD

[OldGuyStillGaming]

The games
If you have a wii u then you would have known why

[nodim]

if you didn't sell your vita before it started getting serious japanese support then you would have understood me too, I believe

[Metallox]

Maybe because the Wii U isn't powerful?

[nodim]

@Metallox and you're saying that vita is a lot more powerful, I take it?

[WildArmed]

Maaaan Xenoblade Chron X cannot come soonnnneeer!!!!

[Neonridr]

lol, that's ridiculous.

[nirwanda]

Probably not as ridiculous as you might expect, Wii U is about 3x more processing power but by the time you factor in resolutions 960x544 vs 1920x1080 and aa buffering etc they are not as far apart as you may think.
Obviously you would expect a 2d game to run fine on both though.

[Neonridr]

so one CPU is equal to the entire Vita power. You also forgot to mention how much more powerful the GPU in the Wii U would be. Not to mention it is based on a GPGPU configuration which means some calculations normally done by the CPU can be offloaded as well.

Factoring in extra RAM and such, I am sure the difference is a lot more than 3x.

[R00bot]

It's a 2D game tho it could run on the original Wii no problem.

[mrbojingles]

I wouldn't necessarily say that. I hear it runs poor even on New 3DS, which has a Quad Core ARM and 256MB RAM. Its easy to forget the Wii had a single core 729Mhz PowerPC CPU and like 88MB RAM. Heck, I don't even think Isaac would fit on the Wii's 512MB internal memory either.

[rextraordinaire]

Sounds like poor coding/optimization on the developers side...

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Rodriguez sounds like he either hasn't done his research and doesn't know what he's talking about, isn't very good at programming for the system, or has some sort of issue with Nintendo at the moment.
Possibly a combination of at least two out of three of those.

[Vegamyster]

I'm no programmer but i don't see why this game should be having performance issues on the Wii-U/PS Vita/3DS, it's definitely not close to the best looking games on any of those systems. Also saying the Wii-U isn't that much better then the Vita is a pretty weak argument, if you compare the best visually demanding games while taking into consideration performance, the Vita is no where near the power of the Wii-U.

[1nsomniac]

What most people wouldn't know is he's not a very good coder & has taught himself from scratch. The game was initially a web based flash game. After porting it to a physical game it then took him several years until he was able to understand & implement joystick controls as he publicaly really struggled with it.

I love the game but he's always been way out of his depth. It was a silly comment but he's surely aware of that.

[SouljAx360]

Maybe it was a joke. Because of how weak the Wii U is.

[Sarobi]

I think he just doesn't want to port the game to Wii U is all.

[Ck1x]

This means that we have a crappie game incoming...
Sounds like some major damage control!
This game must be putting Zelda U to shame then. Lol

[MasterCornholio]

O.O

Um WTF?

What a strange thing to say.

[jcnba28]

"When developers say the darnest things"

[The_Truth_24_7]

He speaks the truth. Don't be blinded by all the lies ninty tells you.

[Sonyslave3]

So let me get this straight Monolith X which is 4x the size of Gta 5 and it world is full of life can run on the Wii U but some indie can't -___-

Monolith X is the biggest open world game on any system .

[RGB]

Not that far off at all. PS Vita is between PS2 and PS3 while the WiiU is only slightly more powerful over PS3. Maybe 100-150GFLOP/s between them, Vita is more powerful than Wii though.

[imXify]

Today with the power of the Xbox One and the PS4 mixed with today's pcs, it's now safe to put both the Vita and WiiU in the "weak" category just like the PS3 and 360. New techs such as Physically Based Rendering simply cannot run well on the WiiU.

[Broomfondle]

We have these type of people in Australia. Commonly known as wankers.

[Azzanation]

So let me get this, The Vita struggles to run PS3 games and the WiiU is easily more powerful then the 360 and PS3 consoles... I think I understand.

[ShankarOnline]

Well Tyrone Rodriguez, is not going to be able to launch a game for Wii U in the next 1 year even if he tried to at his best.
So the best option blame the console, for not being able to make a game in 3 years for it. Also Wii U had not sold much more than the two major consoles, so blame it and ensure it doesnt do it big even if it were the year for its best sales. Infact except for this article which spoke of his comment, which blames the Wii U, Nintendo is actually having better list of games than the 3 previous holiday seasons it had seen.
No matter whatever PS & Xbox may try they would never have a more attractive list of games than what the Wii U has even for the next year's Holiday season. Infact you may have a successor for Wii U next year but that doesnt mean Wii U owners dont deserve any more games. Hope developers realise that. Anyway best wishes for AfterBirth.