You wrote that you think it could be outputting .7 TFLOPs when the 360 8 years earlier did .25. How is that a good jump or not crazy low power?(and yes, I know that's not all that goes into it but you seriously think that after 8 years they can't get a graphics card with 3 times the output?)
The only fantasy land in this thread is you suggesting that the lowest possible outcome for the WiiU still has it being above a possible xbox 3 output.
I find is strange too that 720 is supposed to be weaker than WiiU, when 360 has so much stronger than Wii, even with one year ealrier release, WiiU has a huge screen in the pack that means a huge ammount of the retail price will go there than graphics and when 720 is coming a year or more later
And 720 has developers like Epic and Crytek that will definalty want something beefy to push too
If anything, by all the above, i would expect 720 to do Samaritan in 1080p easilly, if WiiU can do it in 720p
Because profitable from the start and lasting 5 years can be even more profitable (e.g. almost every Nintendo console ever)?
The only reason this gen has lasted so long is precisely because MS and Sony could start covering their losses. The fact that they're making money now is good on them, but it's only covering for the horrible first years they had. Don't pretend MS and Sony have found a miracle business plan, they only found a good way to make up for their earlier mistakes (mistakes from a business perspective).
Okay, fair enough. That doesn't mean you could simply remove two GTX580s and hope that 'optimization' is going to save you though.
Yes, i agree, even though i dont know the profit comparissons between Wii and 360, but in the process they keep their name and relevance to core gaming, i dont think anyone can deny how Wii was for core gamers this generation, it was definatly not 360 or PS3
And if Epic says it can be done on one 580, then why not ? I am sure the code was very unoptimized and they confirmed it too
Plus the custom 720 GPU will not be an exact 580, will be a custom chip using latest 2013 tech and probably a lot better
And GPUs dont scale 3x when you add more, unless they made some very custom design and busses, which i doubt, they even used only one of the 1.5GB VRAM banks in the demo as confirmed
And of course the demo was not 720p, 30fps that will be the target for next gen consoles, in fact they could remove the 2 GPUs and run it at that resolution with one with minor optimization (if at all)