Nintendo’s next generation hardware will be roughly twice as powerful as Microsoft’s current system, the Xbox 360, according to a studio source speaking to Develop.
and what's funny is its roughly the same power as the new xbox. it might be the difference between a 360 and ps3. so you'll have to make the same negative comments about all next gen systems
They got that info these. They sell them online for $19.99. Its call a "Random BS Generator". Whenever you need to make something up on the fly it does the job for you. Most one bubbles have them.
We don't need to, that's why we have consoles as well. For everything else, there's the pc to play it on with all the bells and whistles we don't get with our consoles.
It would be great to play the console exclusives with no limit on graphic capability but it isn't a perfect world. If it was, everything would be playable on pc. And moddable.
But sadly we have to play those games on limited hardware. Ho hum.
with no limit? yeah it would be nice, the only way youd be able to play ps3 exclusives would be in the form of a cutscene on your pcs it surely wouldnt be realtime, limited hardware that produces graphics that your pcs wish they could produce
New Xbox is rumored to be six times more powerful than the 360. So what you're telling me is that Nintendo's next gen system will once again be considered last gen quality in a few short years? Nice....
shouldn't this be more powerful considering it's seven years newer than the 360? twice as powerful isn't much to brag about since the competition has had a console out almost a decade.
so if you belive everything on n4g it goes like this,wii u is 50% faster then xbox360 which is equal to ps3 but xbox 720 is 6 times faster then 360 and 20% faster then wii u,i am quite good at math but this is fucked up
Remember marketing (including developers that got influenced) will twist the math however they want to come out with large number. And many gamers easily get sold without any proof.
That's why proof it with games. I can't play a number no matter how large it is.
Prove Wii U in games (not poorly coded games) than I'll believe. Simply saying the hardware is twice as powerful is meaningless because without games to prove it, the hardware is just a paper weight.
Remember argument that PS3 hardware is powerful than X360. Need games to prove it.
so according to rumors the new xbox is 6 times more powerful than the 360 while wii u is only twice more powerful than the 360, yet the new xbox is only 20 percent more powerful than the wii u...so how is the wii u only twice as powerful?
Well on a article on ign I read last nite they said he new Xbox will be 20% stronger the the wii u so let's just wit and see cause what really matters are the games and in that department nintendos great
The comment about the next xbox being six times as powerful as the current one cant be true.. No next gen console will be that powerful and stay competitively priced...
nitendo did wonders with wii when no developer could even do a decent job at graphics, so yes, nintendo has the ability to utilize their own system to max
I hope it is once again the weakest console, so that it will be most affordable, and I get to laugh again at the supposed gamers who brag on Power. When has power ever been the top console?
I love my selection of games on the Wii. I am not loaded with money, so I was still buying '08 games last year, so I have more than enough to play.
I prefer Japanese style games over western styled, but last year alone I purchased
Skyward Sword Muramasa Super Paper Mario Sonic Colors Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon Phantom Brave Lost winds Melodias Winters (Wiiware) Punch out! Sin and Punishment Star successor and No More Heroes Desparate Struggle
so yea, I stand by my stance that I hope it is weakest. The weakest system usually has more imaginative games because they know they can't compete graphically with realistic artstyles, which I don't care much for
The Wii U will sit right next to my 360. I just need to buy a new shelf for the games. Darksiders will be the first game I get. Mario and Zelda finaly in HD :)
The 720 is supposedly using a 6670. The Wii U is using a 4870.
If you compare both GPU's you'll see that the 4870 is twice as powerful as the 720's GPU.
But even if IGN's article was correct (when they said the 720 is 20% more powerful than the Wii U), that would still imply that the Wii U is more than just twice as powerful as the 360.
As I said, ACTUALLY compare both. All because a GPU may be later gen then another doesn't mean it's always better. Never mind, I'll do the comparison for you:
4870:
Core Clock and Shader clock: 750 Mhz Memory Bandwidth: 115.2 GB/s FLOPS: 1200 GFLOPS Pixel Fill Rate: 12000 Mgpixels/s Texture Fill Rate: 30000 MTexels/s
Now compare it to the 6670
6670:
Core clock speed and shader clock: 800 mhz Memory Bandwidth: 64 Gb/s FLOPS: 768 GFLOPS Pixel Fill Rate: 6400 Mpixels/s Texture Fill Rate: 19200 MTexels/s
So there you have it. It's not that hard, all you have to do is RESEARCH, use Google. It's so easy.
If you look, 4870 scores a couple places higher than the 6670 (6670 is ranked 79 while 4870 is ranked 49). I wouldn't say the 4870 is twice as powerful (performance-wise), but it's far from weaker...
The rumors don't match. The Wii U is 2x a 360 but then the nextbox is 6x the 360 but the wii u is 20 percent less powerful. Really, I doubt they're true at all. There's still a lot of planning being done on both systems atm, so nothing is concrete.
Funny! There was a recent developer that said the final dev kits for Wii U were more powerful than expected. Rumors say that there has been about 5 dev kits... Which one does this guy have? I don't think he has the final one... Final wii u dev kits should be about 20% less than nextbox. Haters can hate... But truth is all next GED consoles will have comparable power even Wii U... People forget so soon how many beautiful games gamecube had... Nintendo knows how to make decent hardware also people.
It was supposedly considerably stronger than the 360, though I'm not sure it had more so to do with playing games or for its other features like background downloading or its other apps. The problem was the PS3 was difficult to develop games on, so most multiconsole titles were made with the 360 in mind first.
I reckon something similar with the Wii U may happen given that it's supposed to be a very open and easy piece of hardware to work with. If Valve digs it, then it's got to be worth looking at.
This web link basically breaks down the rumored GPU for both the WiiU and Xbox720. Very interesting stuff and helps explain why it is said the Xbox720 will only be about 20% better than the WiiU.
“…What the “more powerful than expected” statement could mean is that Nintendo was able (with help) to develop a highly modified Radeon HD 4850 or something that is the equivalent and shrink it down to fit the smaller console environment. Nintendo most likely told developers that performance would be very close to the HD 4850 but the actual chip would be something totally new.
So now we move on to the Xbox 720′s GPU target for it’s dev kits: the HD Radeon 6670. This GPU is a bargain bin type GPU that was released last year and can play most games at a decent frame rate at medium settings….”
all this gpu is better then yours speculation is rubbish.I have a average pc at home that i use not for gaming,it has a dual core and a nvidia 7300 gpu but it only has 1 gig of ram plus 64mg og vram so it won't even run say modern warfare 1 but if i upped the ram to 4 gigs and the gpu had even 512mg of vram it would increase the speed 4 or 5 times,so they can stick quad cores and gtx's in their consoles but if they miser the ram it makes no difference. 360 has worse hardware then ps3 but way more edram=more or less the same graphic abilities. except for exclusives purpose built for each system before the fanboys start
Yea not gonna happen. a year ago Nintendo and reports all said that the WiiU was only 50% more power (50% douse not equal 2X, but 1.5%).
5X time the power, but wait where looking at 7 to 8 more powerful? Can I have some of what your smoking. For just 5 Time more power we're looking at least a 500-600 dollar price tag, More if it is as you say and it will be 8X. That's for a console developed without an expensive tablet like controller. Nintendo would have to sell the console at a lost (something Nintendo doesn't have the resources to do so)
twice as powerfull as the xbox is what it will be i rekon and if the price is right nintendo are onto a winner because the 3rd partys are all onboard they all want a stab at the wiiU to show off there development skills on this new machine
I know everyone may not understand all of the specs being thrown around here but people should really compare final hardware to final hardware, not early Dev kits! But as much as the fan boys here would hate to admit it the Wii U is easily 4-5 times more powerful than either the ps3 or 360(no hard feat here guys seriously). Just going off of the facts from the gpu series they plan on using, not to mention Nintendo's is a custom version of this chip. It will not only come with the latest shader model and graphical effects, but also with a larger memory bandwidth and faster Ram as well...
Which means you still getting hardware that was good around 2008 for premium price
Questions:
Who?
What dev kit?
How are the metrics calculated?
this unknown random site makes random claims from an unknown dev. lol yeah that sure is credible. all the proof i need.
Which means, Wii U is as powerful as the PS3.
New Xbox is rumored to be six times more powerful than the 360. So what you're telling me is that Nintendo's next gen system will once again be considered last gen quality in a few short years? Nice....