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Nintendo Reps at Eurogamer Expo claiming 'Wii U 19x more powerful than PS3"
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While a little gentle ribbing is fine, it's not very Nintendo, I doubt they'd hire a PR company that wouldn't rigidly follow their instruction.
I think there's almost no chance this conversation ever took place.
Seems a reasonable statement to make to me (even though it was probably somebody making something up because he was put under pressure). If Nintendo is utilising 1-2 year old technology to build the Wii U then 19 times more powerful sounds reasonable. To be honest, you can't really quantify "more powerful" in the video game sense because there's loads of different factors to consider within the architecture of the platform, how it is constructed, what processors exactly are inside the machine etc. The rep could totally be right if you compared two aspects of the systems, and totally wrong if you compared two others, there's too many factors to make any estimate at all of some broad "power" statistic for a console.
Nah this is a positive Wii U spec thread, if it was a bad Wii U spec thread than it would get 1000+ pages.
blu
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fixed.
PetriP-TNT
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That's like 75 Wii's. Holy powerhouse!
XtremeXpider
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Lol...
Good observation, however you underestimate the retaliatory arguments about GRAFIX and UNDERCLOCKED CPU's! and posting of screenshots of PS3 and 360 games that look way way better than any launch Wii-U game so far
SuperSonic1305
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19 times more console ports
vikingvessel
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For sure, definitely out of character for Nintendo in many ways. I was intentionally overlooking that, imagining as high as the stakes are, there is still room for a little playground tomfoolery.
19 times 0 is still ...
The PS3 is 0? Daaammmnnnn
PS3 couldn't run the title screen of NSMBU.
Technically true... 60 fps even at 720p... dat Mario physics!
Earthpainting
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How long until we can reverse-engineer these numbers to find out how many pikmin a PS3 has?
Why do people still report on what reps say at events?
I guarantee 95% of people who read this site know more about this industry than the majority of "reps" out there. Reps are regular people who interact well with others and probably read a packet of information and familiarize themselves with a demo before representing their company.
I guarantee 95% of people who read this site know more about this industry than the majority of "reps" out there. Reps are regular people who interact well with others and probably read a packet of information and familiarize themselves with a demo before representing their company.
XtremeXpider
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downgraded?
Projectjustice
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Not to defend the Nintendo rep or anything but your post doesn't disprove anything.
legacyzero
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19 TIMES, or 19 PERCENT?
XtremeXpider
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SMWU is one of the games I will buy with Wii U, but the game is 720p, it don't look like a game from a "19x ps3" console.
Projectjustice
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Since when did launch titles max out launching hardware? I wasnt aware of this.
Backfoggen
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Wii U the only tru next-gen console confirmed.
XtremeXpider
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Launch titles better (technically) than last gen titles? yes, a lot of samples.
phosphor112
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It's NEXT next gen.
chertipros
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That's still waaay too much
Projectjustice
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Dont get me wrong, I dont believe Wii U is 19x more powerful than PS3. Just saying posting a pic of a launch title isnt hard evidence either.
RSLAEV
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chertipros
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Hell, even the 3ds had launch games that looked better than psp games and the power difference there is pretty small
Nealand Liquor
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I truely find it odd when employees representing a company make far fetched statements that dance on the line of misinformation. Especially when those will be proven as such in the very near future.
In this day and age I have no idea why someone would discredit themselves by making a statement, that will no doubt, be repeated for years to come. Have these PR people completely forgotten about 'Toy Story grafix!' and the like?
Odd.
In this day and age I have no idea why someone would discredit themselves by making a statement, that will no doubt, be repeated for years to come. Have these PR people completely forgotten about 'Toy Story grafix!' and the like?
Odd.
XtremeXpider
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It is just a joke, I know SMWU is not a "proof" of anything about hardware power.
Backfoggen
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Those racks are actually Wii U dev kits.
Dreams-Visions
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NINETEEN TIMES
Then everyone else is left.
XtremeXpider
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It is a conspiracy...
Shhhh!!! maybe Sony will sue again.
Tallshortman
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Wii U is the highest end PC hardware possible confirmed.
Take a chill pill, son. I don't think anybody's taking this seriously. I mean come on, even Nintendo fans have to admit that this is outside the realm of possibility. Lol.
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