Wow the PS2 only had a 299Mhz processor? That sure is a big jump. However, I don't think you could expect the Wii U processor being 1,000% more powerful with a 30GHz processor, that technology doesn't even exist

Well clock speed is useless without good architecture.
The Wii U can have a slower clock speed, but have better architecture and more cores and be 10 times the power of a PS3.

If it looks good. Mario Party 8 was fun, but got tiring after a while.

That's a pretty good thing to estimate right now, but as you said we need to wait for Nintendo to crawl out of their shell and give us the technical features, the overall performance of the console, and the power it possesses.Most likely that will happen before the month of July ends, so I guess guys, we wait! Again!

They haven't even released the specs for the 3DS so it may be a while lol.

It's certainly possible that Nintendo will be surpassed by Microsoft and Sony in the next generation - in fact, I think it's inevitable with the 2-year gap between the releases. But really, I wouldn't worry too much about it - as Jikayaki made it clear on that other thread, the eighth generation really won't be so much about horsepower as it will be about delivering unique experiences and services.

In a way, the 3DS is already a sign of that - features like StreetPass, SpotPass, and dare I say, glassesless 3D visuals, have never been implemented on such a wide scale before. These killer features that can be listed as bullet points on the box are what will help the 3DS retain the upper hand in the handheld gaming race, even when the NGP and iPhone 5 surpass it in raw power.

Let's also think for a moment what a 2012 launch for Nintendo and a 2014 launch for Microsoft and Sony really means. Nintendo will have a 2-year head start on them, giving them plenty of time to build and market the Wii 2 into a commercially dominant product. Sony and Microsoft probably will come out with even more powerful consoles further on, but they won't get anywhere near Nintendo's success until they learn that it takes more than sheer muscle to sell consumer products these days.

Well, there will definitely be room for improvement for graphics. We are no where near any cap on how good graphics CAN look. As far as we know, Sony could be releasing the PS4 late next year or early next year. I wouldn't doubt it. Actually I doubt there will be a 2 year gap between Nintendo, and the other 2 consoles.

Plus look at the Xbox. Worldwide, it would be very doubtful if the PS3 doesn't outsell it by years end, and it had a full year to get ahead. A headstart means almost nothing. In fact it ruined the quality of the priduct because they rushed it to get it out faster.

I have been on a few. Neopets, although wasn't a forum site, was my first forum I was on. They had a forum.
I joined up on the ps4forums, but it had already died by the time I joined it.

My most active forum experience is on the 3DSforums.com, I have over 4,000 posts there
I have also been there since the first week it was made.

My first crush was in 5th or 6th grade on a friend I had had since 2nd grade. I admitted I liked her in 7th grade and went to a dance with her. But I couldn't get myself to dance with her for some reason.

Then I felt stupid. We were still friends for a while and I still liked her until about 8th or 9th grade. That was my biggest crush EVER! Actually it's about my only crush on someone I didn't date, well only big crush.

Haha, just for kicks I looked at how many new members David brought over.

the list of members is 23 pages long, 14 of them are filled with people that joined in the past 24 hours.

I am one of them

So David, you have some serious power lol.

Wait, what's the other 1%

That comment actually sparked something else in my mind, do you think they will make family friendly/party games and then hard core games, or do you think we'll see some games that try to accommodate both parties in a single game?

They would probably try to attract both audiences, but with different games.

They said they want to appeal to EVERYBODY so I think there will still be some.

The Wii U is significantly more powerful than either the PS3 or Xbox 360. Both tech demos show cased that fact simply how much more powerful is the question. Rumors before E3 pointed to a theoretical figure of something between 4x to possibly 6x the capability of Xbox 360 depending on how the rumored chipsets where customized. The only thing in doubt about the full capability of the console was whether it could be considered a full generational leap over current consoles. As a measuring stick going by those original rumors there isn't any reason with optimizing the code for a closed box system that majority of the more graphically impressive games that have recently come out for the PC could run on Wii U on their highest settings.



This bit of information though is extremely interesting. Basically the only thing that can be taken from it is that Wii U's CPU is Power 7 based, but that means far more power than many expected. Depending on the number of cores, the clock speed, and exactly how the chip has been customized it could theoretically be a full generational leap over Xenon. Going by the AMD press release the GPU may be something from the Radeon HD 5xxx to 7xxx family of GPU's instead of the originally rumored 4XXX family of GPU's. Which would result in a better feature set, better performance with a lower TDP, and would benefit from AMD Eyefinity technology. The biggest issues I'm worried about regarding Wii U now is its total RAM.

This definitely sounds like good news. As long as it's close, I don't care if it's underpowered when compared to the next generation consoles.

Hey everyone. I have noticed many people from the 3DS forums, so many of you know me

Storm! Glad to see you here.

Hey CUDpwns nice to see you are here on this website as well, i am also from the 3ds forums.

I don't remember seeing you.
I am a regular on the 3DSforums as well

50% sounds very disappointing. Anything short of like 1,000% would sound disappointing. This is supposed to be a generational leap, not be slightly more powerful than the current one.

Although I don't know much about this stuff. Perhaps more processing power isn't proportional to how good graphics look.

Look at the difference between the PS2 and PS3
PS2 299Mhz processor
PS3 3 GHz processor
although the clock speed doesn't matter as much as the architecture, it still sounds really disappointing.

There were over 100 games in development for the 3DS, several months ago. No telling howmany there are now. Besides, it's better to judge quality. Right now, it's impossible to fully judge either system. Give us 2 years and then we can get a good grip on how good each system is.

Well the games are undoubtedly not ready yet. Probably still earlyish in development.

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