True. You know, there is always ways to play those games on a region-locked console; however, it's expensive!

If you mean hacking then yeah but if not an explanation is needed.

i hope not they might come out with a cool japanese game that i might want

They always come out with cool japanese games that people want.

Man i hope not.It's really annoying to see so many good games slip through my fingers all because nintendo wants to control who gets to play what.

I actually use the o button as confirm and x as cancel on my ps system (meaning ps1 to ps3 and psp to vita),the same can be said for my xbox an xbox360 with B as confirm and A as cancel.I'm just backwards like that.

Man I've never sold an old system...I still have my NES, SNES, Gamecube, Gameboy Pocket and Gameboy Advance (to go along with my current stuff) lol.

Same here.
It's not like i have money cus i'm usually broke but when i need money for something i want everything just works out on it's own.

sessler is a payed nintendo hater the guys a out of touch idiot payed to say the stuff his shows demigraph want AKA SONY AND MS FANZOMBIES

FANZOMBIES
Lol thats a new one.

Uh huh... I'm still waiting for the explanation as to why the 720 will be more powerful.

You and me both.It's like they're dodging the question.

Do people not understand power pc is dead?

Power 7 servers are 'expensive' though ibm actually uses its very affordable price for a high end server as an advertising bullet. Starting at $6,500 bucks, with some financing you could have a power 7 750 express for under 200 bucks a month, for about 36 months.

Not the power 7 processor itself. Its much, MUCH cheaper. Definately affordable.

However, power 7 is a SERIOUS departure in architecture for ibm.

The micro architecture was completely redesigned to take advantadge of the new edram technology, the entire core architecture has been repipelined from a high clock speed design to a power/performance focused design.

That means that the power 7 no longer falls into the same category of server processors.... It doesn't just get its power from more cores.

EACH CORE IN THE POWER 7 NETS OVER 2X GENERAL PERFORMANCE GAINS THAN A POWER 6 CORE CLOCKED A GHZ HIGHER.

It also uses less power, and makes less heat, and uses less memory (saves cost per core).

The entire architecture is made possible because of the new edram technology.

This is why its so easy to tell these rumours of tri core power pc with 3mb anonymous cache (some sources say its l2, which makes it more wrong, yet they say it uses power 7's ram technology, pointing to the 3mb as being what ibm mesnt by 'a lot of edram'.

Anyone who's even taken a glance at p7 wpuld be laughing their arse off at this point.

IBM increased the performance using their edram technology by REDUCING cache sizes.

Power 7's l1 cache is half the size of p6's at 32 kb. Since its the new embedded dram technology, bussed 8 ways, and acts like 6transistor sram (you thought mosys 1tsram was fast? this is 6t). And ibm was abble to lower the latency thanks to the reduced size to......

ZERO POINT FIVE NANO SECONDS.

That puts the memory bandwidth of power 7's 32kb of ram at 192 GB/s. at a core speed of 4GHz

Power 6s 64kb of edram has a latency of 0.8 ns.

So what would average person think would make a bigger difference? twice the ram, or 0.3ns less latency. The average person would always say double the ram.

But the p6 64kb l1 cache only gets 80GB/s.

I keep telling people, ram performance ain't about capacity.

What about l2? This is the one people claim is 3mb total. That is so wrong. That's as wrong as chocolate cheese.

P7 REDUCED its l2 cache by 16x!!!!

P7 has a 256kb l2 cache. Power 6 has a 4MB l2 cache.

This enables p7 to reduce latency to 2 ns for its l2 cache.

P6 has 5 ns latency. The results?

p7's 256kb l2 cache has a 256GB/s bandwidth per core at 4GHz..... While p6's 4MB l2 cache only gets a 160GB/s bandwidth at 5GHz.

Power and performance is not about more ram, and its not about clock speed.

Now, anyone who has been following these rumours should have one thing on their nind right now.

Hey 3dude, ibm said the wii u would use the same technology as power 7, they SPECIFICALLY said, and I quote 'lots of edram'.

At 4 cores, all those caches combined barely make a single MB. That's NOT 'lots of edram'.

You are absolutely correct. Although the performance is fantastic (and linearly scalable to clock speed) 1MB is most certainly NOT a lot of edram.

How about 32MB edram embedded on the actual die? Yeah, that's the ticket.

The final huge change Ibm made with memory architecture is that l3 cache is no longer put on a seperate chip placed next to the cpu.

Its been EMBEDDED ON THE DIE ITSELF SMACK DAB THE MIDDLE OF THE DIE RIGHT BETWEEN THE CORES.

So what does that do for performance?

Well p6 ALSO has a 32MB cache.... Lets compare.

P7 is set up so each core has up to 4MB l3 directly adjacent to it. Now, all cores CAN share the entirety of the pool. So, a single socket of p7 has 8 cores, with 4Mb l3 per core at 8 cores, for a total of 32MB.

That enabled Ibm to get latency down to 30ns for its l3 cache.

P6 had its l3 cache on a seperate chip. 32MB on it. This gave p6 a l3 latency of 35ns. How much of a difference did that 5ns make?

P6 gets 80GB/s for its l3 cache, shared between 2 cores, at 5GHz.

P7. l3 cache gets FIVE HUNDRED AND TWELVE GB/s shared by 8 cores at 4GHz.

Of course, if you only have 4 cores, that's 16MB for a bandwidth of 203 GB/s.

Power7's edram technology IS power 7. They are one and the same. You can't just use power 7's edram technology and NOT have a p7 architecture.

Wii u HAS power7, NOT power pc.

Power 7 gets better performance at a lower clock speed than power pc.

Power 7 gets better performance at lower temperatures than power pc.

Power 7 gets better performance at less power draw than power pc.

Plus, power pc is dead as a frontline processor. Died in 2005/2006 when Ibm lost the power mac contract.

Power 7 IS in wii u, its been confirmed, explicitely word for word by official ibm news feed.

Wow...
Just simply WOW.If anyone has ever earned thanks it would be you.Cheers

Why is CoD loved so much, you pay $60 for worse courses, same guns, and a crappy 4hr campaign, and blops2 I know is "futuristic" but come on, we have enough futuristic FPS. They are jumping on that bandwagon a little bit late. The FPS genre has turned into a way for developers to steal money from people by making a $30 game and selling it for twice that. And then they make countless unoriginal sequels and everyone goes out and buys them for 3X what their worth. The only FPS that's worth the money is Halo, because at least it has an awesome campaign, but the guns almost never change, ever...

Borderlands says

i cannot forgive nintendo for backing off they should have slaughtered sony , they were one step away from it and seemed to back off as if to say there a Japanese company we cannot do it they had sony by the ball sack they should have cut them off ,i detest sony

i could ram dualshocks down sony zombies throats all day till theres non left,ps2 was the biggest insult to me ever from sony that machine was souless its load times were unforgivable its dualshock was even more WTF than the first one it would break down if you sneezed in the same room it was soooo ugly it looked deformed it had only 2 controller ports unforgivable shall i go on

oh it had n64 graphics and 4 bit colour for the lords sake 4 bit colour WTF and for some insane inept reason sony fanboys thought playing dvd movies was Dzhit what ever

ha ha ha ha ha priceless.

I wonder what "Not Enough Shaders" has to say about this?

Be careful with that plan. It may be hard to find a GC compatible Wii depending on where you live.

If he knows how to shop online then he should have no problem finding a GC playing wii.

Yesterday.

20 minutes from now.

Watch it release in Europe on December 26th

Lol to the max

late 2013 is my guest if you are talking really mind blown its offical Wii U is next gen graphics. up until then you will see games that look considerably better but not ok this is next gen better.

If you say late 2013 then that means they have to already be making said game and if we go by that the only ones we know of that are making something right now is Retro.Then again maybe the game that will show it's potential is a whole new ip by a second or first party team.Ether way we'll get something on said game at the end of the year or beginning of 2013.

Yeah, the chances of the Wii U selling in Spetember are probably equal to the chances of Reggie saying "It's in stores right now suckas!" during their E3 presentation.

Although that would make me lol.

That would have mind blown me.I would be saying that whole time ''did you forget about what happen to sega when they pulled that crap'' throwing everything around the house.I'd be one lost individual.

If the WiiU has steam for their online then PSN and XboxLIVE are dead and will never revive.Here's to hoping for steam on the WiiU

The system isn't on par with last gen. Nintendo learned enough to not skimp on graphics. (Honestly it wasn't so much skimping on graphics last gen as it was more powerful than GC... they just didn't want to bet on HD and didn't expect Sony to release a 600 dollar console lmao)

You know the first games always suck graphically compared to end of life, and that 3rd parties are usually less willing to push the graphics than 1st party. And Nintendo's only two games is a heavily cartoony Mii game we can't get much insight from, and what is basically a Wii port (Pikmin). The fact they can pass as end of life PS3 is a good sign.

I don't expect to see what the system can really do until Nintendo releases a game built from the ground up on the Wii U that isn't a party game.

That would be the game Retro is working on but we won't even see it until next year...which sucks.

Tomorrow.

LMAO

Even the psp was able to do that so in game screenshots is nothing for a system made in 2012.What i want is in game video recording.

I know the next Zelda will murder Pikmin 3 but i know we wont see something on that until e3 2014.

I'm thinking maybe a year and half until we see something really pushing the system.

Nintendo is like the Superman of gaming.
Can Do Anything.

Please don't put superman and gaming in the same sentence.

Nes x2
Snes x2
N64 x3
Gamecube x2
Wii
Gameboy color
Gameboy Advanced Sp x4 (i love these the most)
DS fat
DS lite
3DS
Ps1
Ps2
Ps3
Psp fat
Psp Slim 2001A Model x2
Xbox x2
Xbox360 x5 (lucky me )
PC

REmake (resident evil remake,Gamecube) in HD please with achievements!

Now thats what i want or better yet how about REmake2.I would fight to the ends of the earth if it meant getting that game as a launch tittle.