Recent content by climbsyke

The parallels drawn between the Wii launch and the Wii U launch are startling. Upon the Wii reveal Nintendo's shares fell through the floor and the hardcore gaming gang came out proclaiming that the Wii was a fad and would die. They were wrong. This time is no different with the usual mix of...

I'll concede the Cell-vs-PowerPC thing, but I have to take issue with the implication that any developer who's not already 100% Xbox-exclusive would drop support for Nvidia ? it is a necessity for making PC ports, after all. Yes Nvidia is a huge presence in the PC arena. There is no denying...

IF, and its a big if MS have a new console in development the chances are they are going to want proper backwards compatibility. That means power PC processor and AMD GPU just like Nintendo. That puts Sony in a bit of a situation. Do they: A. continue with cell and Nvidia meaning all next...

There is no doubt that PC's are currently well ahead of consoles. I was merely saying that when a console first hits the market the gap between it and PC is not that wide. I also agree with you that Nvidia and AMD are much closer than they used to be, but there are still relative strengths and...

Potentially faster, but PC is always going to be held back by developers having to cater for lower spec machines that are out there. Console games can be optomised for the hardware, so the realistic difference between a brand new console and the PC's isn't actually that wide on release.

My first post!! Wow, I was a bit taken aback by how much hate there was towards Nintendo on this site! Anyway, there have been many comments on this thread about the lack of power the Wii 2 will have (according to rumours). My thoughts: 1.CPU The specs say triple core IBM CPU. The 360...