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New Rumored Wii U Specs
Another day, another Wii U specs rumor. The Nintendo Wii U has always had some underwhelming specs but these go even beneath that. For comparisons sake, these are almost identical to what you’ll see in the current generation gaming consoles from Sony & Microsoft – Playstation and Xbox respectively. So here they are, the ‘rumored’ specs and i’ll put an emphasis on ‘rumored’ because these are quite underwhelming.
RAM: 1GB (1333Mhz)
CPU: Tri-core IBM processor
GPU: AMD Radeon 7 series (supports DirectX 10)
Just to put these numbers in perspective, I’m typing this article on a computer with 8GB RAM (2400MHz), i7 3770k – Quad core and an Asus GTX680 (which supports DirectX 11.1).
I simply just want the Nintendo Wii U to have more ‘oomph’. So here’s to hoping that these are indeed just rumors and the Nintendo Wii U gets released with some slightly better specifications. I’d like to see a quad core and 2GB RAM as standard. What specs would you like to see on the Nintendo Wii U?
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I would love for it to be able to play DVDS/Blu-Ray’s.
Why? You don’t have a ps3 or blue-ray player already? If not you must not want one.
This is what was speculated in the beginning of the year. At least two more kit updates have been released since I first heard this rumor. Taking it with a grain of salt.
I’d like them to have 3GB Ram, quad-core, and more memory installed. I’d like them too get even farther ahead in the console war since I believe “fanboys” (microsoft sony) will talk about how their newest consoles are past the Wii-U.
We shouldn’t care what “fanboys” think. No console is better because all three companies are better equiped for a different crowd.
Microsoft fan boys currently get to talk about their unstable chips that are likely to deter a new X-box launch till 2014. Power doesn’t mean much when you have a greater than 90% failure rate.
Please stop reporting that the Wii U GPU “supports DirectX 10″.
It does not. I has features quite similar to DirectX 10, which is not the same.
More to the point though,
I do remember some developers talking about the system actually featuring 2GB of RAM, but that some ammount was reserves for the OS and online features.
If it’s true that none of this has to be dealt with in game memory, then 1GB is actually quite a lot.
For me, I’m hoping the Wii U stops being a childs system and starts being who Nintendo used to be. Before the Wii, Nintendo actually had some of the best systems technically, as well as of course structurally sound and able to endure a lot at the hands of its owners.
The SNES blew the Genesis out of the water in tech and would have NEVER beat the Genesis without that edge. The N64′s tech was twice what PS1 was although it suffered because of Nintendo’s stubborness to use CD, and the Gamecube was twice the machine that the PS2 was and just barely behind (2 percent or so processing power) of the XBOX.
Technology does matter in gaming as much as innovation. While I’m fine to play Legend of Zelda on the NES because it is an AMAZING game, I want something a little more powerful in 2012 since after all, the game will costs upwards of $50.
I realize for some reason, a large mass of the populance have been okay to go the road of bells and whistles (which in reality cost hardly nothing) for their cell phones, Wii’s, etc., and allowed companies like these to rip them off by giving them so-called innovation, rather than pure hard power with those bells and whistles, while the companies made millions and gave little to the consumers.
I know that most here are die hard Nintendo fanboys, but the XBOX was a perfect example of a system made by gamers for gamers thinking of the gamer first packing as much POWER into the system as they could get away with.
Gone are the days of giving to the player as in the days of SNES, N64, and Gamecube packing a lot of system for as little as possible. I want the Wii U to be affordable, but competitive with the next generation hardware so that third party developers don’t have to build from the ground up the same game.
I want it to be durable as I’m sure it probaby will be, (completely unlike the 360) and for Nintendo to have its gamers in mind a little more than its share holders (unlike the Wii).
A console motivated by a desire to give to the gamer and the Wii is a perfect example that innovation will only take you so far since the tech on the Wii looked dated in 2006, much less today in 2012.