Rumored Tech Specs Give Wii 2 More Power Than Xbox 360

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Tomo Stryker

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mad825 said:
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..It's an improvement...Nevertheless...
Its like putting a cherry on a, "Cock Flavored Lollipop" . It may have something new, but its still, "Cock Flavored". +1 Internets to anyone who gets it.
 

smudgey

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It's not a new console generation, it's Nintendo catching up and building their first HD console, for a ridiculously low price. Seriously, how much money did Microsoft and Sony invest in their HD consoles? Shitloads? Nintendo are obviously developing one for a fraction of the cost, and seeing as the PS3 (and probably 360) are likely to have ten-year lifespans, this lets Nintendo even the playing field for the next 4-5 years until the next console generation.

It amuses me that people are seriously suggesting throwing in 4GB+ of RAM into a console. What's the point? Consoles are streamlined gaming machines; not the all-in-one solution you'd expect from a PC. The OS of a PC is usually a big ol' resource hog (look at the change from Windows XP to Vista; games usually required an extra half gig of RAM to run on Vista).

And considering most devs would continue to develop for the established markets of the 360/PS3, this means they'll be able to simply port games to the new console, instead of developing games specifically for the new console and then trying to down-scale them to the 360/PS3.
 

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Even IF it has more powerful hardware then a 6 year old console. And agreeable for Nintendo that is quite something. But .. it is in how you use power. Not in how much you have!

I would compare it to the FX series of nvidia cards and the ATI 9x00 series.. you get my point. Yes the FX series had more powerful technology but it couldn't even use it. It was bottlenecked to hell.

If Nintendo seriously wants to make a powerful console sure, we seen it with the 3ds. But I would like to see it in the games if you get my drift. I would like to see it in effect and yeah with the Wii, it having 2x as much power as the Gamecube. Maybe but I haven't seen much of it.

In the end it is in the games and it would be interesting to see how Nintendo being known for being different will do their thing with whatever the WII2 ends up to be. But the games.. really yet another Pokemon, even Zelda has hardly changed that much sadly :(
 

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I'm calling bullshit. Nintendo must know that putting a touch-screen on the controller, alongside buttons, is a bloody stupid idea.

On top of which, if this console is for real, it's going to be a lot more powerful than the 360, otherwise it'll be obsolete again in only four or five years.
 

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512 MB of RAM is the give-away to this being fake.

Thats INCREDIBLY low.

2GB would be low.

4GB or gtfo.
 

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funguy2121 said:
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So they are purposefully shooting for a new underpowered system, wow consider me underwhelmed yet again...
What's with all the talk of "yet again" and "trends?"

The Wii was a release unlike any other in Nintendo's, and the industry's, history. The gamecube was more powerful than the PS2 and the N64 had more processing power (not to mention *ahem* actual 3D graphics) than PSOne.

People can be so melodramatic. It's a video game.
I would hardly consider the Wii release "unlike any other in the industries history" motion controls just pretty much suck in my account and don't warrant much enthusiasm at all. It just wasn't impressive, just like what I'm hearing about their new system. Time will tell of course, but I'm prepared to be thoroughly unimpressed with what they introduce.
 

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So ? in a year Microsoft will probably release a new Xbox by 2013 so it really doesn't matter.
My exact thought.
Good going nintendo, beat something that´s YEARS old.
 

008Zulu_v1legacy

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Sounds like the controller will drain the battery in about 6 minutes flat.

But yeah, can see this working for Nintendo. They proved hardware isn't as important as to how well you can use it.
 

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512 MB of RAM is the give-away to this being fake.

Thats INCREDIBLY low.

2GB would be low.

4GB or gtfo.
Yeah, 'cause the Wii is known for it's incredible specs. I would not be surprised at all if the Wii's successor is just like the Wii in that it will use last-gen hardware. Meh.
 

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However, if true, it hints toward a console that adds features from handheld gaming to the home console experience.
I would also say, if true, that it hints towards a console that has controllers that cost as much individually as a DSi, a fact which causes me to take this speculation with more than a grain of salt.
 

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I prefer to low-ball the enthusiasm on any Nintendo product, as they've given me good reason to over the years. Nintendo is living in the past, wallowing in a bygone time when they could get away with doing as little as possible for their products to actually function.

Judging from their track record with hardware performance, I see no reason to believe them competent enough to produce anything that matches an Xbox 360 on any level, despite it's age.
And if it turns out to be true, then I wish anyone who gets it luck in finding something to put in it.
 

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I'd sure as hell hope so. If the newest generation console on the market didn't have hardware improvements to one-up it's competitors... that's pretty sad. Easy to let it slide last time because of motion controls and that in 2006, that was.... adequate for graphics, but there's really no excuse this time.
 

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sounds fake and gimmicky, HD touch screen embedded into a controller, if you really had what sounds to be a 360 controller with a HD touch screen, why would you want to play mario? i think i would want to play an FPS.

in all seriousness, i think ill wait to the expected 2013-2015 for the xbox 3, M$ only just started hiring people to start the development of it anyway and the 360 is a very solid piece of hardware that provides a suitable environment for playing what im interested in and at what level of graphics im comfortable with.
 

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Sounds pretty fake to me.

For one, a touchscreen controller just sounds like the dumbest idea ever, to me.

Now I could be proven wrong (if this ever comes to pass) but having a second screen on your controller would be WAAAY different than the way the DS works. For starters, the DS screens are close together, so its easy to see both and quickly switch your focus between the two. But I doubt anybody holds their controller under their nose while playing console games, so it'd be a whole lot more inconvenient to have to constantly turn your head away from the TV to check your controller.

And its not even like you could set up your fingers over the right spots and not have to look,like on traditional controllers, because unlike normal controllers with buttons you can feel, a touchscreen is a single flat surface. Without any landmarks to give your fingers any bearings, you'd be constantly hitting the wrong things.
All in all, its completely impractical.

Secondly, how's something as big as the controller described going to be able to work like a Wiimote + nunchuck? Doesn't seem at all possible.

And that's just the problems with the controller.
Those specs are TERRIBLY low. My computer is a hunk of shit, but still has way better specs than this supposed "console"

At this point, I'm extremely skeptical. Sounds more like an ill-thought-out fanboy's dream than a real piece of tech. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
 

Midniqht

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No matter what type of tech it has, Nintendo likely won't make use of it to the fullest. We'll still get Mario rehashes and cartoony games without very much high-tech demand.
 

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Wow those specs are bad. Definitely a lot of old tech in there. I seriously hope Nintendo isn't springing for such outdated processors and such low RAM, no matter how cheap it would be at this point to use tech that old. They really shouldn't be aiming for "just good enough" when their competitors are probably also looking at new generations of hardware.