Wii U Is Less Powerful Than Xbox 360 And PlayStation 3 Say Developers

Slightly disappointed but tbh I’m not too surprised…

STOP WITH THIS.

Nintendo has a history of using their own shaders, so it’s not as easy as most developers are used to. It’s doesn’t mean the console is less powerful, devs are usually just lazy

Not true.

Then Nintendo should probably upgrade the graphics card power, stick in NVIDIA GT Series.

i’m not buying the wii U anymore :S

happy april fools

Oh, yeah, anonymous developer is surely a credible source. We saw the demos at E3, and so did eyewitnesses: it outputs 1080p with great visuals.

This april fools is a bit late.

Yeah right :V

Me thinks that next console I gets be dah Amstrad now cos dah graphic be betterer.

Happy trolls day was yesterday…fools

I wonder why the source isnt named…Maybe Fake

You guys claim these anonymous developers are some nameless wannabes who can’t divulge their names, but has it occurred to you guys that these anonymous developers might even be the same famed developers who claimed the Wii U was very powerful back then, but are not divulging their names?

That’s the thing about anonymity: Those developers could be anybody, even Wii U’s so-called “strongest backers”.

And people fawned all over some of Wii’s strongest titles and they weren’t even the least bit bothered by their lack of graphical ability compared to the other consoles, so despite what many of you “I’m gonna leave Nintendo because their graphics suck!” guys say, the minute Nintendo pulls out some of their strongest games onto the Wii U, we’re all going to fawn over them all over again. Cuz we all know when enjoying a great game that the graphics ultimately stop being so important.

In other words, if Nintendo’s core games were good even on the Wii, imagine how big of an explosion they would make on the Wii U. Crazy, but true.

FUCKING BULL FUCKSHIT! Maybe the developer was paid by Pachter to say this useless fucking crap about the Wii U. And GRAPHICS don’t matter. I need someone else to tell me if the Wii U’s graphics are AWESOME :D or BAD. And graphics do not matter. Buy it anyways.

THEY ARE NINTENDO. THEY CHALLENGE ALL PLAYERS.

Why I’m not surprised?

we have seen tech demos that prove otherwise, so not really believing these two anonymous source articles

If this is true, i´m gonna be very disapointed :-(

The 360 and the PS3 have been out for over 5 years and have been pushed their limits…the WiiU hasn’t even be released yet.
Games that come out towards the end of a consoles era are way better graphically then the games that come out at launch. Compare any PS2 launch title to God of War 2 and you’ll see what I mean.
So basically what’s being said here (assumming its true) is that the WiiU is slightly worse before launch than consoles that developers have been working with and pushed graphica for over 5 years.

The news is a lie

And they said the ‘Ninja Turtles are Aliens’ was bad!

it looks like some late april fools joke

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This is such a lie, it’s already been confirmed the Wii U is more powerful then 360/PS3.

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I believe it. And even if it was slightly better, considering the PS3 and 360 are over half a decade old, if the Wii U is on the same level then that means that it’s already outdated -_-

Even if this is true, its not like I give a crap. Nintendo is about game quality, not graphic quality. The Wii and DS proved that to us this past generation by producing many great games.

If anyone believes that, it’d be someone who hasn’t been in video games long enough to know what Nintendo is capable of.

Because, you know, graphics are everything… >_> /sarcasm

The Japanese garden tech demo would like a word with those devs.

Developers confuse me now. Before it said it more powerful then ps3 and xbox 360 , then said on par. Now less powerful. I guess we will never find out untill the full specs are told by nintendo or e3 2012

The proof will be in the pudding! Bring on E3…

“On par” only means “the same” if you are excessively literal and/or a golf fanatic. In the common vernacular, the Wii U being “on par” with the PS3 and 360 merely means that it easily matches it, not that it is exactly the same. Here are some thoughts for you people to put your doom-and-gloom into perspective:

There are dozens of developers on board with the Wii U. And many
of them are saying that the Wii U exceeds the PS3 and 360 significantly in both graphics and overall performance.

The Wii U is being built with 2010 hardware. IBM even said that the CPU and GPU is the same one that powered the Watson supercomputer, which is the same machine that was on Jeopardy a while back answering every question miles quicker than its human competitors and eventually winning the whole thing that season. The PS3 and the 360 are using hardware from 2004-2006. It’s pretty easy to see that there must be *some* increase in power.

As far as the specs go, here are some developers who showed their interest in this new machine.

Crytek::
“The specs are very good. It’s a challenge for designers, but once thought through it can add value, and that’s what’s ultimately important. Our guys in Nottingham; they are very happy with their testing on the dev kits we recieved and they’re excited about it.”

Valve:”Wii U seems to be a lot more powerful than the previous generation,” they claimed. “It sort of fits better into the scalability in terms of graphics performance and CPU performance, so I think it’ll be a lot easier for us to fit it into our scalability model.”

THQ:”The Wii U is much more powerful than the other HD consoles, so the Wii U doesn’t have a huge problem doing 1080p for the majority of its games.”

THQ: “Expect the majority of third party Wii U games from most publishers to have native 1080p, additional content, and smoother frame rates than what the PS3/360 versions have to offer.”

At least as far as the graphical capabilities are concerned, hardware is reaching an all-time high for power. The closer you get to photo-realism, the less visible difference each new advancement actually makes.

Remember we became gamers not because one system has graphics better than another, but because of the gameplay and the fun and overall joy video gaming brings us. A hardcore gamer is a person who plays EVERY single type of game out there, not just Call Of Duty. I play Mario, Pokemon, Street Fighter, Tekken, Uncharted, Mario Kart, Modnation Racers, I Even Play A Little Tetris, Or Some Sonic CD, or even some Metal Gear or Ninja Gaiden every once in a while. I can gladly call myself a hardcore gamer. People need to stop being so close-minded.

I guess I need to do a little Video Gaming History 101 session. The only time in the console wars that a system beat out another in overall sales because of it being graphically superior to the competition was between the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. The Genesis had a faster processor than the Super NES (7.32MHz vs. 3.10MHz), yet the Super NES was able 2 display more colors on screen (32,768 colors simultaneous vs. 512 colors on screen for the Genesis). Audio-wise, the Super NES was supplied by then business partners Sony Corp, who allowed Nintendo to use their SPC700 chip, which has a much clearer and crisper sound than the Genesis(Even with all its crappy doody accessories keeping it on prolonged life support).When the Super FX Chip was coupled with the Super NES it could display polygons, allowing for 3D graphics, nearly unheard of at the time. Long story short, consoles who sell the most in the console wars are usually underpowered compared to the rest.

The Xbox 1 and the GCube were both more powerful than the PS2, yet the PS2 lives on. In fact Sony is still making them, at least until there is no longer a demand for it. It is the best selling home console of all time, even though if you count up all the iterations of the Game Boy line and the Nintendo DS line combined, they easily surpass lifetime sales of the PlayStation 2.

Even the Wii was the least powerful of the 3 this generation. Everybody kept saying,”Oh motion controls will never work.”, Uh huh, righttt yet the Wii outsold just about everyone, and motion controls as a standard feature was so successful that Sony and Microsoft came up with their own motion controllers, each with varying levels of success, even though the PS Move bombed in comparison to the Kinect on Xbox 360 which I’ll applaud Microsoft for not technically copying anyone, although some consider it a ripoff to the PS2 EyeToy/PS Eye but the same can be said of the PS Move which was a ripoff of the *cough* Wii Remote *cough*, and it was not that much more accurate than using a Wii Remote.

Basically at this point Nintendo is still finalizing the Wii U. We know that power and abilities wise it will at the very least, match the PS3 and 360 point for point for features. The Wii U is THE only system that will be able to output visuals in native 1080p. Food for thought, the PS3 and the 360 cant do 1080p out of the box. Both top out anywhere between 570p and 720p, then upscale to 1080p, which is why in some games you see an increased amount of jaggies and bluriness on screen. The Wii U wont have that. Trust me. It wont. Because the Wii U can output full 1080p natively, there is no point justifying its “oh its got the same graphics as the other two consoles” mentality. That is a realization that there is a real monster residing under the plastic skin of Nintendo’s new console, just waiting to be let out. E3 is literally around the corner. With what looks to be a stellar launch line-up, a combo of innovation and good all around features, the 8th generation of video games looks to be a blast. Now we wait, and see. That is all we can do.