The point was that in order to make a console with that power all those years ago, there were a lot of sacrifices and simply thinking "Wii U is 300/350 and 360 was 300/400" is too broad a stroke.
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Metro Last Light dev: 'Wii U has horrible, slow CPU' [Up: DICE dev comments]
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The point was that in order to make a console with that power all those years ago, there were a lot of sacrifices and simply thinking "Wii U is 300/350 and 360 was 300/400" is too broad a stroke.
eDRAM needs a lot less transistors and consumes less power, which reportedly allowed Nintendo to go with an unusually large L2 cache of 3MB. That little detail also makes die size and power consumption comparisons with other chips a lot less meaningful.
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Why did someone have to bring this stupid thread back up?!
No, the Core 2 is very different from the P3.
If the WiiU CPU is just 3 750CL cores with some EDRAM cache then that is a very small jump compared to P3 vs C2D, more like P4 to P4D!
Why did someone have to bring this stupid thread back up?!
No, the Core 2 is very different from the P3.
If the WiiU CPU is just 3 750CL cores with some EDRAM cache then that is a very small jump compared to P3 vs C2D, more like P4 to P4D!
Composite cables? What the hell?
I don't think your comparison is any better.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Anything beats paying for online or fake Microsoft money and ending up with stray points left over on your account. Pricing DLC at 1600 points and only selling points cards in multiples of 500 is unbelievably shit. I'm aware 400/800 point cards exist, but i haven't seen them in Australia. I could be totally wrong.
Nintendo's VC and online stuff is pretty terrible at times but they're setting a good trend with add-ons for the Wii U - no overpriced proprietary storage or headsets. Being able to use your own HDD is great.
Developers/Publisher choose their pricing on the Wii U eShop. If EA wanted Madden to be $5 it could be or they can hold sales whenever they choose to.
DeaconKnowledge
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Better if I don't trust any of them, no?
lunchwithyuzo
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GOD launches are also full price MSRP, and XBL prices are at parity with eShop downloads. What exactly are you talking about, XBL and eShop carry the same sort of pricepoints?
phosphor112
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I've seen that guys post, and no. I understand he's a programmer but even that guy himself said the "15% more power" is from unoptimized code. Most small devs don't optimize them. The big plus about the cell that devs took a while to take use was the LS (local storage). The 256kb of instant use data that was right next to the SPU's.
Power processors aren't new, but the cell design was.
How many people call desktop intel chips horrble and slow lol
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Wii U doesn't have VC. And 3DS has instituted more reasonable price ranges ($3-6). Last gen's over, time to move on...
Yep, if they mean it seriously, they don't have any clue about the CPU. But it was more likely to be BS for the media to hoard.
Team Ninja agrees:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=507190
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Arent they independent from THQ?
And that's why they had to come up with a reason that was not related to business
Perhaps it's to ease his own insecurities.
to protect the internet, he had to act accordingly.
Twenty7KVN
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Why bump his thread?
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
So when Warner picks up the license I guess we can expect a Wii U port again?
Steve Youngblood
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This is important stuff, as evidenced by the fact that this is the second time he's felt compelled to do this: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=45398240&postcount=2578
Sho_Nuff82
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4A doesn't make platform publishing decisions.
And after NG3, are we really taking Tecmo's words seriously?
And after NG3, are we really taking Tecmo's words seriously?
Chris23235
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Quite probably not, but the people resonsible for the Metro 2033 platform publishing decisions already made clear, that 4A didn't ever had a clue how fast or slow the CPU of the Wii U is, because they never laid hands on anything else than an early, not nearly finalised, devkit.
Besides, even if I agree with you, that 4A didn't do any platform publishing decisions, it was 4A, that claimed, they make such decisions in the first place.
Then why are they in business at all?
lol
may be, unless 4A games prove that port will be too costly/vastly inferior.
because they develop games
Could damage possibly already be done? Those that would be interested in the game, at least the day one purchasers or anyone that might be deciding which version of a game to buy, might have heard about this already. Would there be concern since 4A already ran their mouth that even if the new publisher put out the money for a Wii U version that it wouldn't be good because people simply wouldn't trust 4A to do their best and deliver a quality product. Maybe wanting to prove what they said the first time was correct to save face?
Then again this just could be me projecting. I personally would be wary about a Wii U version now since they were all to willing to blame the system with their lack of experience with it.
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