Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has announced that the Wii U features 2GB of memory – 1GB for system memory plus 1GB for games. The Wii U also uses its own optical disc format which can hold up to 25GB of data, and the system has a 22.5 MB/sec disc read rate.
Wasn’t it 1 GB in total? o.O
That was a RUMOR.
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HOLY FUCK!!
U Brown?
Lol @ all the rumors saying it was 1 GB.
This is why we’re not supposed to believe everything we see or read until proven fact.
The rumors were implying RAM for the games, in which case were completely correct. Only the “1.5GB” was estimated for retail units since Dev Kits typically half the RAM.
got dizzy with that spin again!!! stop it those rumors are bunk…it’s too late to save face on them now!!!
Sorry, I don’t speak or understand stupid.
All you do is downplay everything positive, and capitalize on everything negative. STFU for once
Make me, pussy.
so you amid that you where wrong.
They were correct hen saying one gig for games
Time to start up a blog.
I am happy… Watashiva…
All this fucking time with those lying ass rumors! Iwata K.O’s them in 1 goddamn minute. Speculation DONE. IT’S MORE POWERFUL; CHOKE ON IT DOUBTING ASSHOLES. NOW, FOR THOSE GAAAAAAAAAMMMMMEEESSSS.
More powerful?? You decided this on half a gig more ram than speculated?
obvious troll obvious go back to school 512MB is 1/4 the size of the Wii U’s 2GB
1 GB for the OS??? What kind of OS is this???
Or what to they really mean by “system memory”?
No its OS, miiverse/multitasking are going to take a lot.
That’s a pretty decent disc read rate. Quick.
I wonder what kind of RAM they’re using. Probably something fast like GDDR5 or just DDR3. Who knows.
GDDR5 is GPU by the way. It may be little, but GameCube was also very little compared to the competitors of its time.
Ahh. I was thinking that. Time will tell. Can’t wait till someone breaks open a system and says “it has this type RAM, and this many CPU cores”
5x Blu-Ray drive.
The RAM is very likely DDR3.
Sweet!
Ok I’m a noob on system specs but it 2 GB that good? What do the other systems have?
Wii U has 2GB (2048MB) of RAM
PS3 and XBOX 360 both have 512MB of RAM
2048MB /4= 512MB
PS3 and XBOX 360 have one fourth of what the Wii U has!
It’s great!
I think he meant “what this does”……
Oh…
Makes the games run silky smooth!
4x the amount RAM: =/= 4x the performance tho. Do we know the the amount of edram?? It should easily be more than 4x better performance wise. And the bluray drive reads 3-4x faster than the ps3!? :O load times will lightning fast. I’m actually pretty happy right now. Will preorder tomorrow afternoon.
No I mean I know what RAM is but I didn’t know how much the other systems had in comparison. But that’s really great news! This thing could be the ultimate Nintendo system. It could render GameCube games with ease and we could have the smoothest running games on this system.
And what’s this about a blu ray disc?
The drive is using specs comparable to a 5x BD drive. The “proprietary” disc format is basically a Blu-ray disc written differently and read differently as to avoid paying royalty fees.
They did this with the Wii too.
X360: DVD (7.93MB/s)
PS3: Blu-ray Drive (9MB/s))
WiiU: Blue-ray Drive (22.5MB/s).
So I was wrong, It’s 2-3x faster, should still speed up load times quite nicely.
Evidently, it’s the Wii U high-density Disc that holds the same amount of info (per layer) as a Blu-Ray Disc.
AND LOADS/STREAMS MINIMUM 2.5 X FASTER
Oh… HELL YEAH!!!!!
I’ll preorder mine next paycheck I get.
PS3 is 256mb.
THE OS IS AROUND “””WAS AROUND 120MB ITS AROUND 40 TO SAY 64MB NOW
Really?! Ahh, it is isn’t it.
Both 360 and ps3 have 512 MB in total
yes, but the PS3 uses 120MB for it’s OS and it’s GPU looks like a Oscar Dela Hoya against the Wii U’s Manny Pacquiao!!!
BO FUUUUKING SELECTOR
huh?
2GB of RAM… 100% AMAZING!!!!!
Those fake posters are gonna be scrambling to save their reputation after getting caught with their pants down!!! Some of them even denied the Power7 watson cpu despite IBM confirming it in twittter!!! LOL @ the rumors saying Wii U will only have 760MB of RAM. It’s
reminds me of the 3DS in a way. Looking at the PSV I really can’t see
much of a huge diffrence compared to the 3DS. And, yes the
rumors also f-up and said 64MB of RAM instead of 128MB and an ARM11 dual core CPU that according to documents run the very least 800MHz instead of 266MHz. (they scrambled again saying that the system uses 32MB and forgot to mention it BS)
In conclusion, the non-believers (Sony drones, X-bots, graphic whores, racists, bigots, right winged, left winged, boneheads, etc.) have all been– *blows whistle* EXPOSED!!!!!!!
Yeah take that you Nintendo hates!!!
Racists?
Wait a second, graphics whores? what about PC? i can buy a cheap PC today that has slightly better graphics than Xbox 360 and PS3 and more stable frame rate (ofc, better resolution too).
No, they are not graphics whores to be real…. they are just haters, acting like “graphics whores” but they play most games today at 720p 30 FPS and less (i repeat, today-nowadays because that 7th gen console hardware is not high end today).
Rule #1: Never compare PC to game consoles. It’s invalid and doesn’t count. PC is Personal Computer… game consoles is game consoles.
STOP DOING WHAT THE PEOPLE U SAY U HATE ARE DOING SPEC LYING THERE Saying 3ds low ur saying high your both wrong
3DS dualcore custom arm 11 is 268mhz the gpu runs 1to1 with the cpu the gpu is also 268mhz its a 1to1 balanced system theres 6mb of gpu buffer ram and 128mb of fc fast ram 32mb for os 96 for games
I didn’t say I knew it ran 800MHz or 1GHz….I just said doc said the processor typically ran that speed.(the links) The 3DS may run as low 500MHz(to conserve power) as far as I can guess but those rumors should be put to rest and state that the 3DS’ CPU ran those typical numbers and not trust IGN’s rumors.
This should shut up the idiots who say Wii U is the same tech as an Xbox. It will be a good deal more powerful, no doubt, bitches!
Haters thought Nintendo will just keep mum while they talked shit. They got what they deserve and a good punch in the mouth for that matter. Now they will start all this bullshit about how X720 or PS4 will be 100x more powerful than the Wii U while solving the world economy!!!
i love the end of that rant so true someones got a brain and there using it
yeah that kind of proves that wii u IS next gen.
haters going to hate.
That’s the same amount of RAM in my laptop
PC’s are far more advance than consoles.
You have a crappy laptop if you only have 2GB
there’s a laptop that has a 2gb?!?!???!
Mine has four upgradable to eight… But for me eight would be overkill
So, compared to a PS3, how many times better is this?
1.5, or what?
Don’t take that as a troll post; I honestly have no clue about specs so I’m looking for a layman’s explanation.
8x the RAM of the PS3 total.
4x the RAM of the 360 total.
Games wise, 4x PS3, 2x 360 in terms of RAM.
Good!
Here’s hoping the PS4 matches it in this aspect, at the very, very least. If it does and the price point for both it and the Wii U is around $400 due to such tech, I’ll likely get both.[as long as the PS4 doesn’t drop support for PS3 games, that is…….]
minimum 2 x but we need more info its going to be more than that
huge edram GPGPU design modern gpu compute shaders 3mb edram catch to cpu 3x cpu and 1 x gpgpu gpu working together thats a whole lot of threads
the disc speed is 2.5 x ps3
4x better than PS3
PS3 has 256MB dedicated to video and 256MB dedicated to the system. So the Wii U technically has 4X better in system and Video RAM compared to the PS3. One also has to account how much embedded RAM (probably 40MB of 1TSRAM vs 10MB for 360, and none for the PS3) the Wii U has. The Wii U also has a true GPGPU, is awesome wayyy better than the one my 360 has. Overall, good news and puts the Wii U at the very least 3.5x-4x more capable than the x360 (which to me is the better of the two current gen HD system).
Let’s not jump to conclusions. The 360 Xenos also has GPGPU functions, and the rumored R700 does as well.
I have an x360 and I am not jumping into conclusions. You’ve been known as very anti-Nintendo on the site(that’s why your defense of the Xenos is not surprising) as I am known to dislike Sony (MS I like…but not as much as N). The GPGPU architecture of the 360 is a much earlier version of what the Wii U will have. Plus, the Wii U will probably end up having 40MB or more of embedded 1TSRAM (they own MoSys) which is 4x more than what the x360 currently has. But thank you the 360 is one impressive machine compared to the PS3.
“Let’s not jump to conclusions”
don’t act all smart, you ALWAYS JUMP into conclusions.
The majority of which have turned out to be correct too. Go figure.
iv worked out the disc load speed its 2.5 x faster than ps3s bluray i bet some of that ram is also a disc cacth like gamecube for even faster loading say 4 x ps3 it would only need 32mb or so to do that i hope so
Does Wii U supports dual layer discs? (50 GB)…. PS3 supports both 25 and 50 GB
Well, I’d imagine 25GB is single layer, so no reason why it wouldn’t so far.
Are the discs double layered so they can hold up to 50 gb?
nice !!!! was getting this regardless of specs ^_^ …
im guessing 1.6ghz -ish cpu and 800mhz-ish gpu ,,,,based on desktop ati gpus from that family and the cpu speed of powerpc 400 s and powerpc 476fp,,, both powerpc 32bit 400 series that a tri core next gen broadway would use as powerpc 750 no longer exist and all customers to IBM would move from powerpc 750 to powerpc 400 if they wanted to carry on with the same cores and instructions or/and allow back play of code
wii to wiiu expresso is tri core powerpc 4– broadway + custom catch etc
That’ a lot of disc space. 0_0
This is very good news. People, today the trolls are going to come out in force try to dampen the excitement of Nintendo fans. Don’t respond to them. Let Nintendo do your talking for you. Leave luck to heaven.