Wii U

[Knuckles 1]

I thought I saw it at E3. If I did, this means Nintendo is taking a step away from releasing "family-oriented" games, like Mario, Mario Kart, etc.. Though those are fun and all, it brings the Wii U and Nintendo up with the "Big Dogs" for hardcore gaming, as well with Assassin's Creed being on the market, and who knows what else?

GTA V? Dead Space 3? One can hope.

 

@Kiriashi, I don't know the precise details of the GPU yet, but it will likely outperform the Reality Synthesizer (modded Nvidia 7800) that supplies the graphics for the PS3.

[CrimsonInferno 35]

It will still have the softer, casual games on it, but also Hard-core games. It helps that it is backwards compatible.

[Joey 9]

Just saw this thread...figured I'll post something that no one else mentioned. Isn't anyone wondering....what....Pikmin 3 is gonna look like? xD

The first two had pretty nice graphics, and that was on the GameCube....GAMECUBE!

[madanchi 18]

Just saw this thread...figured I'll post something that no one else mentioned. Isn't anyone wondering....what....Pikmin 3 is gonna look like? xD

The first two had pretty nice graphics, and that was on the GameCube....GAMECUBE!

hell i wanna know what Metroid will look like on it XD and gamecube is same spec as Wii, the hardware isn't even final either :o it's meant to be more powerful

[Joey 9]

hell i wanna know what Metroid will look like on it XD and gamecube is same spec as Wii, the hardware isn't even final either :o it's meant to be more powerful

Wii is more powerful than the GameCube, I can tell by just some of the games, so they don't have the same specs.

[Joko 1]

The wii U's controller looks a little to chunky imo. Hopefully they really slim things down and personally i dont see a reason for the controller having a screen.It's unneeded and slightly useless. I personally wouldn't use it. Plus i only like the wii for its family friendly games in the first place. Mario,zelda,donkeykong, and Starfox is what makes nintendo imo ^.^

[madanchi 18]

Wii is more powerful than the GameCube, I can tell by just some of the games, so they don't have the same specs.

I can guarantee you one billion percent it is the exact hardware baring a couple addons such as wireless etc games can have better graphics because the hardware has been out longer so companies can work with it much better

[Joey 9]

I looked up the specs, looked at the numbers, CPU, GPU...whatever...the numbers are slightly less than doubled on the Wii compared to the GCN. I believe the graphic cards are even different.

I looked through Google AND Wikipedia, decided to quote a post from one of the Google search results.

"CPU / GPU / Memory

Wii - 729 mhz / 243 mhz / 24 MB - 64 MB (1TSRAM GDDR3) - 3 MB cache

Gamecube - 485 mhz / 162.5 mhz / 24 MB - 16 MB (ARAM) - 3 MB cache

 

Front-side bus bandwidth / main memory bandwidth / CPU DMIPS / cache

Wii - 1.944 GB/s / 3.888 GB/s / 1691

Gamecube - 1.3 GB/s / 2.6 GB/s / 1125

 

Texture cache bandwidth / framebuffer bandwidth / z-buffer bandwidth

Wii - 15.52 GB/s / 3.888 GB/s / 7.776 GB/s

Gamecube - 10.40 GB/s / 2.6 GB/s / 5.2 GB/s"

Edited July 16, 2011 by Joey

[madanchi 18]

I looked up the specs, looked at the numbers, CPU, GPU...whatever...the numbers are slightly less than doubled on the Wii compared to the GCN. I believe the graphic cards are even different.

I looked through Google AND Wikipedia, decided to quote a post from one of the Google search results.

"CPU / GPU / Memory

Wii - 729 mhz / 243 mhz / 24 MB - 64 MB (1TSRAM GDDR3) - 3 MB cache

Gamecube - 485 mhz / 162.5 mhz / 24 MB - 16 MB (ARAM) - 3 MB cache

 

Front-side bus bandwidth / main memory bandwidth / CPU DMIPS / cache

Wii - 1.944 GB/s / 3.888 GB/s / 1691

Gamecube - 1.3 GB/s / 2.6 GB/s / 1125

 

Texture cache bandwidth / framebuffer bandwidth / z-buffer bandwidth

Wii - 15.52 GB/s / 3.888 GB/s / 7.776 GB/s

Gamecube - 10.40 GB/s / 2.6 GB/s / 5.2 GB/s"

I could have bet my life that it had almost exact specs, maybe the increased hardware is to cope with extra addons but i'm not too sure now, one thing for certain however, is graphics guaranteed can look better than gamecube as time has passed XD also I'm gonns a give a gamecube tech demo when it was announced at E3 before launch, pretty dam amazing imo

 

one thing I lvoed about the gamecube was its outstanding special effects processor, god dam those effects in Red Steel can blow you away, the post processing light rays, water/ distortion effects etc

 

 

edit: forgot to mention that I simply can't wait for the WiiU to come out for one, or two, BIG reasons and that is it acting as a graphics tablet (Wacoms version is called Cintiq), those babies cost up to 2k, although the WiiU is smaller and probably got way less sensitivity/ pressure points but still, we'll see how it turns out

Edited July 17, 2011 by madanchi

[Knuckles 1]

The wii U's controller looks a little to chunky imo. Hopefully they really slim things down and personally i dont see a reason for the controller having a screen.It's unneeded and slightly useless. I personally wouldn't use it. Plus i only like the wii for its family friendly games in the first place. Mario,zelda,donkeykong, and Starfox is what makes nintendo imo ^.^

The controller is said to be very comfortable by the people in the industry that happened to try it. The screen wouldn't be useless at all either. It's a way for Nintendo to implement dual-screen technology into their new console. With the screen you can change items, weapons, and shields in Zelda on the fly without having going to the pause menu.