bgassassin
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Hey guys. I finally caught up with someone I've talked with in the past. While the actual listed specs do not mention these exact numbers, with the die shot they are more than enough to confirm those numbers.
The 160/8/8 doesn't bother me. It's how they allegedly arrived at that which doesn't sit well with me. The allegation is that the Wii U hardware was downgraded due to overheating dev kits.
When I was here a few months ago I shared this in the Latte thread:
But in hindsight there may have been signs pointing to this. One was a comment from Vigil (we had forgot and thought Gearbox in the Latte thread).
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/312210/wii-u-development-has-been-a-little-tricky-admits-vigil/
I know when this first came out we speculated on that being due to architectural changes.
The other sign comes from Nintendo themselves.
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wiiu/console/0/1
So consolidating all of that would say Nintendo chose a smaller case over more power.
Again this is a rumor. But I wanted to draw more attention to it in the hope that others out there could confirm or deny the hardware downgrade.
The 160/8/8 doesn't bother me. It's how they allegedly arrived at that which doesn't sit well with me. The allegation is that the Wii U hardware was downgraded due to overheating dev kits.
When I was here a few months ago I shared this in the Latte thread:
I will say that around the time right before I stopped posting last year someone told me something along the lines of Nintendo reducing their original plans after the overheating issue. By then after hearing conflicting things I didn't even care and just wanted to focus on other things.
But in hindsight there may have been signs pointing to this. One was a comment from Vigil (we had forgot and thought Gearbox in the Latte thread).
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/312210/wii-u-development-has-been-a-little-tricky-admits-vigil/
Donald added: "When we got the new kits there were some things in the old build that wouldn't work with the new hardware and we had to wait for updates. So it's been a little tricky in that regard."
I know when this first came out we speculated on that being due to architectural changes.
The other sign comes from Nintendo themselves.
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wiiu/console/0/1
Iwata - Was making the casing smaller a clear target from the start? Kitano-san?
Kitano - Yes. At the start of development, Takeda-san gave us the task of making the console a "stagehand", a kind of unobtrusive role behind the scenes.
So consolidating all of that would say Nintendo chose a smaller case over more power.
Again this is a rumor. But I wanted to draw more attention to it in the hope that others out there could confirm or deny the hardware downgrade.