I'm not expected a weak console. I'm just not hedging my bets on a super powerful one.
Don't get me wrong. I've already put money aside for WiiU this year. I would love it to be a decent halfway house between PS360 and PS720 but I'm trying not to raise my hopes up too high until I see more definitive information.
All this Frostbite 2 engine running smooth talk is just that. The information seems to point out that it might be running a bit better then current gen on the version of devkit that they have and that later devkits might be more powerful. That's not a lot to go on.
Right, see this is a lot more where I agree the vast majority of gaffers should be, but you are forgetting that the best information we have of the x720 is that it is based on an HD6670 GPU, which is not a gaming GPU, it will be a custom chip, but it's rumored to be 6 times as powerful, not 10x+ that everyone was expecting 3 months ago, that means a great deal to the landscape of next gen, Wii U is going to be a console that performs right along side the x720, even if it's half as powerful, thanks to diminishing returns, that difference in power will be harder to notice than xbox and gamecube were. The game could look virtually identical at 720p if xbox720 targets a 1080p spec, which I would imagine a lot of multiplatform devs doing if that were the case.
I agree, "better textures" means more memory, which is good of course, but it doesn't confirm higher performance.
Isn't that just another string of hopeful assumptions, that a)the devkit was outdated and b)later devkits (and final hardware) would be more powerful?
a.) Arkam said that it wasn't the newest dev kit and that he hadn't seen the newest, also his account was second hand, he does work for a company with the dev kit, but he said he doesn't work directly with it.
b.) The best reports we have is that devs were pleasantly surprised by the bump in power of current dev kits, this was a little over a month ago, and we know that a "final" dev kit was seen around this time, but is believed to be v6 and not the v5 that appeared to be what devs were talking about in the performance increase.
Keep it up guys, only like 150 or so posts to go