RJMacReady

I think some of the posters in this thread are just throwing around technical terminology without fully understanding it.

You're implying that I'm an idiot. I suggest you refrain from the insults and flaming.

Going back to the subject what's consoles got to do with it. Comparing them to PC's is just ridiculous and bares no logic. Consoles are a fixed entity for their lifetime and games are made to run on them. Developers are always pushing the capabilities of PC's by making their games take advantage of the latest technology. Plus its ridiculous to expect people to turn down the settings and make the gaming experience sub par and not what it should be. If PC gaming technology was static and didn't change so often then it wouldn't be an issue. You may be happy to turn down the settings and have a sub par gaming experience but not everyone is like you. Not to mention there is nothing stupid or idiotic in wanting the best performance as you so put it.

You're implying that I'm an idiot. I suggest you refrain from the insults and flaming.

Going back to the subject what's consoles got to do with it. Comparing them to PC's is just ridiculous and bares no logic. Consoles are a fixed entity for their lifetime and games are made to run on them. Developers are always pushing the capabilities of PC's by making their games take advantage of the latest technology. Plus its ridiculous to expect people to turn down the settings and make the gaming experience sub par and not what it should be. If PC gaming technology was static and didn't change so often then it wouldn't be an issue. You may be happy to turn down the settings and have a sub par gaming experience but not everyone is like you. Not to mention there is nothing stupid or idiotic in wanting the best performance as you so put it.

Lol.  So if you're PC isn't capable of running games at high settings, there isn't any point.  You should just not play at all.

Remember kids. Whenever the Wii U sells 21K units in a week in Japan, it's a crisis that will never turn around. When the Vita sells under 10K units a week for many months in Japan, there's still time to turn it around.

All there is to do is wait for the games. I'm sure sales will pick up when it gets more of its announced games released.

The press for the Vita has been pretty negative actually.  I'm not seeing a double standard.

You've obviously never heard of bifarcated memory hierarchies, which require more complex architectures.

Unlikely. A memory heiarchy like the wii u's wont be necessary, because they will likely be using gddr4/5 that has a bandwidth much much higher than '2x wii u's main mem'.

Making the need for sophisticated memory heiarchies redundant.

They are going to get the most out of their memory bandwidth.