Wii U will be powered by a CPU which features three IBM Power PC Cores, an AMD series 7 GPU and 1GB of memory available to games. The console’s CPU is apparently formed of three IBM Power PC cores of an undefined clock speed, though reports suggest this to be lower than the Xbox 360 and PS3. The developers also say that the machine has 1GB of RAM available to games which is approximately twice that of the Xbox 360. The GPU is a custom AMD 7 series, supporting shader type 4 and DX10 type features, with embedded eDRAM.

“Wii U has a powerful GPU with more oomph than the rivals – and is more modern in architecture and shader support, which may come in handy later on.”

“The CPU on the other hand is a different question. We are not limited by it but some other games might suffer from it. Still, because of the GPU, I expect most multi-platform games to look the best on Wii U, even if the difference might not be huge sometimes.”

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    • I like how the word ”reports” should have been a link, but instead it’s just the ”r” of that word.
      Just for those who read the article quickly and wanted the link.

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    • this is good news. much better graphics will come on this than ps3 and 360. dx10 type features , 1 gig of ram etc. this means games will be able to run at 1080p no problem due to 1 gig of ram.
      i am excited for these specs.

      if anyone is wondering , how is this thing going to look when maxed out ???

      go and watch the e3 2011 zelda HD tech demo. those graphics are leaps an bounds ahead of current gen .
      these specs also mean the wiiu is going to be CHEAP about $280 £269
      spmething like that.
      please xbox and ps fans. YES WE KNOW THE PS4 AND 720 WILL PROBS BE TWICE AS POWERFULL OR MORE. (and i will buy a 720 or a ps4 hands down) .
      but this is great news for nintendo fans.
      the console has BETTER graphics than current gen and supports this awesome new gamepad etc.
      the future of gaiming = wiiu + ps4 or 720 + pc + 3ds + vita . nuff said .

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      • “Wii U has a powerful GPU with more oomph than the rivals – and is more modern in architecture and shader support, which may come in handy later on.”

        this means the wiiu is next gen. every tech nerd will tell you the GPU is a lot more important than the cpu.
        its widely known the wiiu has a Dedicated sound chip which means the sound will not be sapped from cpu.

        i personally am very happy with this. this sounds like a great console!!

        we all know PC’s have BY FAR the best graphics.
        the next gen will boil down to exclusives and features . not just horse power.

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          • Vita sticks aren’t designed for fatasses with sausage fingers, it’s meant for people who don’t live in their basement with Nintendo products.

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            • i am perfectly lean and healthy , tall and good looking.
              6ft3 @ 15 stone.

              the vita’s sticks are absoloutly apauling. sorry i played one TODAY and the sticks just feel awful. they feel like they are made out of plastic milk bottle , they hardly move and you have 0 precision/control over your game.

              the sticks issue completely put the final nail in the coffin of the vita for me. it was embarasing.

              THE VITA HAS TWIN STICKS!!!!!!! BUT THEY ARE THE WORST STICK EVER MADE , BY FAR!!!!!

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              • Oh I agree with you, I was playing Uncharted and I have to tell you those analogs weren’t comfortable at all. The hardware itself feels right and screen is great, but I’m blowing my money on Wii U man. Maybe I’ll get PS4 in the future who knows, but XBox is a no-no for me. And I have to agree that Aeolus or shall I say Siegfried needs to get laid; just chill out a bit and don’t be all uptight man, sheesh. Tomorrow is another day even if Nintendo still exists.

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              • That Patcher man is the silver fox of the swollen puss of youth!!! Savor his moist sweat well!!!! The mystic Tony Stark is so prock the pasta of sultry encounters for misty waterfowli!! Do it sultry fake regginator gracing my magnificent man gaze!!!! I’m so sultry for you. Odiorne loves you fake Reginald!!! So hawt! Kiss kiss fall in love my love!! Breastfred ash Ketchum!!!! What a sultry maiden! Link!!! LINK!!! Harvest that youthful man!!! He wants it!!!!! Stop it!!! Stop that Cornish hen!! I love you. Yes. Drink the Lipton soup with me lover. Those twin sticks will savor your lust well. We be some smokin Hitachiinggirls!!! Take biotin every day! It makes your hair very lustful for Mel Gibson. Cody odiorne. Data mah name lovers. The Ketchum needs to be breasssstfed!!!!! Do it!!! Hurry!!! He’s hungry!!!!!! I love him. He’s hot.

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            • i have my own apartment aswell btw. packed full of furniture nd technology of all kinds. current gen consoles , retros spanning the entire history of gaming and many other cool things.

              you are the troll who rents a room of his grandma arent you ????

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            • I’m very disappointed in you. I told you to take out the garbage and throw out all those old mountain dew bottles in your room, and as usual, the house is a mess and your rooms stinks. You really need to prioritize mister. Take a shower and please do SOME of the chores i put on your list?

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            • i never new it was a problem!!!! vita fanboys saying ‘the hardware is perfect!!!” ITS NOT!!!. those analogues are poorly positioned and they feel beyond rubbish and cheap.

              everything else is spot on .

              but i would rather have 2 psp circle pads, than those shitty lose fidley sticks.

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          • idk where you are getting that from… by far better then that cramping slider pad that the 3DS has. I bet you that if the systems had the opposite sticks you would be praising it on the 3DS.

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            • gtfo allison. the 3ds’s one circle pad is better than a vita stick yes. when you ad the CPP its a lot comfier.

              the vita’s sticks are pathetic . and you know it.
              also the fukking console has no games at all. so stop praising it.
              it doesnt even compare to the 3ds (especialy not the XL) .
              its a useless system with no support and no games.

              the 3ds has already a huge library of great games .

              seriously compare the vita to its fail self. not the 3ds.
              the 3ds is in its own league of glory .

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              • the slider pad is no different then then the one on the PSP in my opinion. I honestly do like the sticks on the vita, I can controll fast paced games a lot easier. The 3DS XL is no fucking different then the 3DS other then the larger size. I have 3 games on my 3DS, 1 of which I actualy play often enough (that is mario kart) I will have no more then 3 games for it until main pokemon games are made for it. Honestly ill probaly will only have 3 titles at most for my Vita as well. You sir just cant see that Im not all about nintendo only, I support all 3 systems and the two for handheld
                wise. There is nothing wrong with having both a vita and 3DS. I have them both just for the exclusive games, thats why I have all 3 systems, for the exclusives and because my hard core sony fan girl days are out of my life now and I respect all 3. You just dont like how Nintendo is #2 to me :P

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      • screw sony and microsoft fanboys there wishing apon a star the xbox 720 and ps4 wont be available till 2014 (for a possible $600-$800) by then nintendo has taken over the industry and sony and microsoft will get nintendo wii-u ports on there overpriced unreliable crapped out system. idiots love throwing there money away!

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        • You expect Nintendo to take over the industry? Well that’s a bit of a stretch. That’s also be horrible for competition.

          I doubt their consoles are going to be “Crapped out”, especially since they’re taking so long to release any info on them. The current generation is still in fairly full swing.

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  3. “The CPU on the other hand is a different question. We are not limited by it but some other games might suffer from it.”

    Pathetic. 7 years later and still cant have a better CPU…Least the GPU is nice…but for how long?

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    • that’s funny, because the 7series of amd gpu’s started the end of last year and the beginning of this year. so yeah, they’re using pretty up to date tech.

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      • He’s likely referring to the fact that Nintendo is now using current-gen graphics, regardless of whatever year and make the Wii U’s tech is.

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      • He is not talking about 7xxx series. How the hell would it be that range of cards when they all support DX11 and this only supports DX10.1? Because it’s a R700 card.

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        • if it was an r700, they wouldn’t classify it as a 7series gpu. the 7 series is like the 7970 and so forth. and yes, the lower ends of those card support direct x 10.

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            • its a CUSTOM GPU. meaning there are some modifications to it, which means they could have made it slightly less powerful in order to keep costs down. when someone says “amd 7 seires” they dont mean “r700 series” they mean “amd 7 series” you’re a dumb piece of shit.

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              • Yeah, a “custom GPU” is going to dive a few generations behind what it’s supposed to be. I really hope you aren’t series, or trying to troll me or
                something. /incrediblyfuckingsarcastic.

                Don’t even talk shit dude. You know very fucking well this isn’t a 7xxx series card. The majority of the rumors have suggested R700 and those cards support the features listed. You’re the only idiot here.

                Accept your defeat and educate yourself. Or do you want to take this shit up on a PC centric forum like overclock.net and explain to everyone with half a brain how this -Southern Islands 7xxx GPU- got gimped to DX10.1/Shader Model 4? You want to face that embarrassment?

                Nothing more annoying than fake ass PC gamers pretending they know shit. >_>

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                • a few? its one. 11 minus 10 is one. 5 minus 4 is one. and yes it’s totally plausible they didnt support certain feature in order to keep cost down, and to make it easier on the gpu so it can stream to multiple displays. a CUSTOM GPU is totally plausible to support a lower version of direct x. my 670 supports direct x 9 lol. just because the main manufactured gpus support direct x 11, doesnt mean that a custom verson for a console, needs to support it.

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                  • “Keep costs down”

                    Or like, just use the fucking R700 cards for cheaper, herpa mothafuckin’ derp, are you even THINKING?

                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_700_chipset_series

                    This is also called “7 series”, by the way, you’re losing whatever case you had to present, but i’m just going to vent this if you can’t comprehend the stupidity you’re suggesting:

                    Why in the flying fucking hell would they gimp a modern card to be supporting OUTDATED features, rather than just using a high end card from the past for cheaper?

                    Please explain how is it more cost effective customizing a modern GPU to be WORSE, as opposed to an older, cheaper card with those features? Do tell.

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  6. “There’s going to be some geek out there who will screwdriver that processor out from the machine, run it through all the tests and compare it to Pentium 3 upwards and tell everybody how rubbish it is. Of course they will. That’s great and I applaud people for doing such things. However, as a game designer that means absolutely nothing to me.”

    Expect to see a few of those geeks in this comments section.

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  7. PRAISE THE LORD the gpu is directx10 compatible. if it was only directx9 like the xbox and ps3, i would be somewhat confused lol. it is a shame with the cpu, but considering how most games now are more gpu intensive rather than cpu intensive, it doesnt really matter. all you really need is two cores, it just depends on how high the clock-speed is.

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    • and also, the fact that it supports shader type 4 is GREAT. my gtx 670 supports shader type 5, so being just one notch bellow a top of the line card is pretty great.

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    • Amen. I am actually going to even go to church Sunday. Dealing with Playstation drones and xbox devil bots has me losing intelligence and moral fortitude. Question who raised such bitter delusional one state only dwelling individuals?

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      • And it is people like you that make me come back to this site and troll :D but I actualy mean what I aay in my posts.

        Just to let you know I do own many Nintendos and I do play them, Nintendo is number 2 me though but Xbox is slowly taking that place. Id never thought Id see the day…. eh oh well. Not like I play my Wii anymore anyways. Just mainly competative Pokemon battles on my DSi when im not busy from work or playing my PS3 or xbox.

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    • I agree with this. 299 is worth it just for the next Zelda. I certainly feel like I will be buying the next gen Sony or Microsoft though. Wii u may fall behind quite quick

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      • Not quite quick. I give it 3 years after PS4/720 launch until it falls behind. And then the Wii U has been out 4 years which means that it will take 1-2 years until Nintendo will release their next system.

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  10. This is barely confirmation it’s just an article touting sourceless specs. While it may be true we don’t know for sure.
    No I’m not trying to defend Nintendo for any reason I’m just pointing out that all of this is still unconfirmed so we should really only take it as a grain of salt.
    Either way if it is true, I’m okay with that, sure it does mean some issues in the future as far as multiplats go but it’s going to be in the same vein as PS3 this gen, multiplats might look better on the other consoles but those exclusives are going to be the titles that really pop and stand out in this coming gen.

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  15. Get out your notebooks, Sony and Microsoft! You gotta make sure to rip this off as fast as you can, just like you did with PsMove and Kinect!

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  17. The Wii U is officially next gen. The graphics are better although maybe in some cases just a little better. The same thing for Unreal Engine 4…it may just be a minor improvement over Unreal 3 (particle effects)…but it is a next generation engine. We can all agree that even though 7 years has passed…leaps in graphics are getting smaller and smaller…until quantum computing comes around.

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  18. WAZZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
    UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
    UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
    UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
    UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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      • Yes it did in the end of the console cycle. But as Nintendo is first out this time so do I get the feel that they’re going to “hurry up” the next next gen at a pace that makes Sony/Mircosoft unable to deliver a good system in the right time frame to compete.. That’s what I would do if I was Nintendo, I don’t get why Microsoft didn’t do so :/

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      • You better pray to fucking jesus that wii u ousells and that he others haven wisen up if not nintendo will lose like they did with the n64 and gamecube and snes on the european continant. If the wii u loses your arrows gunna come crashing down pretty hard and youll look foolish. Wii is garbage i gurantee that ouya will outsell wii us record if they play the markting cards right because the price point is already good and they are marketing to the casuals sorta like developers are making ios and pc gmes because the poor souls actually make a 50% profit compared to the measly 2-20% on console gamings.

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    • Another butt hurt buy ‘merica xbox hill Billy that is sad no American console has ever dominated gaming world wide. We know why you are bitter, it’s not your fault. Blame Microsoft for making Kinect and having only two exclusives.

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      • Just speaking the truth. Wii U aint gonna be alone for ever, the others are coming and just you watch. The wait till be good for them as they will have acsess to better tech.

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  21. Lets hope the PS4 and Xbox720 will suck ass. I know graphics isnt everything…but it would be nice if the Wii U has better specs then next gen systems.

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  26. If real, this will be great for now. It’ll definitely be last when PS4/Nextbox come out, but nowhere near as behind as the Wii was. As for people saying its unlikely since the developers are anonymous, can you blame them? Nintendo often sue or get people fired for leaking stuff.

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  27. I think these are very good specs. This is also not an official thing from Nintendo, so I’ll take it with a grain of salt. Wii U is powerful. Leave luck to heaven.

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  28. If the PS4 and 720’s specs eclipse this by a lot, I’m jumping ship. Some of the developers whose games I loved are now making games for the so-called “next-gen,” and I’m still wondering which they’re referring to: The next-gen with Wii U in it, or the next-gen with only PS4 and 720 in it? If the next-gen includes the Wii U, then I’ll just get that. If the next-gen blows past the Wii U though, I have no choice, I have to switch consoles. Nothing is impossible, and for the PS4 and 720 to be miles more powerful than the Wii U is not an impossible scenario.

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    • “Jumping ship”. Ermm, why would you buy a Nintendo console for anything less than the exclusives? Seriously, if the WiiU turns out to be in the same position the Wii was, i wont care, because i’ll have the first party games, and they’ll blow me away, and be vastly superior to any game on the ps4 that i’ll probably buy, and not because of graphics.

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        • You “def” are stupid.
          Nintendo makes my favourite games of all time, and id buy their system just for those alone. What, does that mean i cant own a Sony console now? Even though i chose the psone and 2 over what Nintendo was selling (although i still got their handhelds). Dont “assume” anything, when you cant even fucking spell properly, your points are completely opinionated, and in actually fact, you’re probably just one of the little shite trolls. Shut the fuck up.

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        • Why get the ps4? I only like god of war on there. I can get better movies from you know movies. I really hate uncharted from a game play point of view but I give it props for the character models.

          I’d rather get a wiiu with a pc upgrade. I mean Sony and ms are not beating a tri core i7 with 64 gigs of ram for just $400 lol( for the ram).

          I mean I can even max out my modeling tools now lol.

          I’m just happy the wiiu is true hd rather than 12-20 frames of up scaled 510-620 faked hd.

          Wiiu will do console gaming hd justice because it was great on the pc but just sad on the consoles.

          Unfortunately I do know tech and i have to say the wii was the best sd could offer and they really matured many of their franchises to a very fun state. Now we get the icing on that cake.

          I really think I’ll get ms surface before I get their console. If surface is their console I would be fine with that since it will be useful finally.

          Sony… Well I put a blu ray burner in my workstation. Plus they lied so badly about the ps2 and the ps3. They are such a sad company.

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  29. I don’t really care if the specs are not as good or better than whatever console because all that matters really is if the games are good and fun.

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  30. I don’t believe it because of these statements:

    “The console’s CPU is apparently formed of three IBM Power PC cores”
    “The GPU is a custom AMD 7 series, supporting shader type 4 and DX10 type features”

    Power PC was never confirmed by Nintendo. Their own website claims that the CPU is multi-core, but Power based, not Power PC. They are two completely different CPU architectures.
    The AMD 7 series GPU family supports shader model 5 and DX11 type features.

    I am a skeptic. Grain of salt taken.

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    • POWERPC COMES UNDER THE POWER LOGO AT IBM SO THE POWER VS POWERPC ARGUMENT IS IRREVERENT POWERPC IS CONSIDERED BY IBM PART OF THE POWER BRAND SORY TO BURST YOUR ILLUSIONS BUT THAT’S A FACT…..

      45nm powerpc 400 aka the modern day version of older g4 g3 cpus in fact powerpc 400 series the top version the 476fp is twice the cpu per clock the arm a9 is and this baby just got ibm edram and nintendoised instructions its the most powerful 32bit risc cpu for gaming on the planet its that simple

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  31. All the trolls are just playing dumb.The Wii U is by no means weak.And the cpu isn’t weak.I mean look at my outdated pc with geforce 8400 gs and an old intel dual core and it still runs almost all of the new pc games.I’ll say it again:The Wii U is by no means weak.

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  32. Even if this clearly proves that the WiiU is more powerful than the current gen consoles, the haters still saying that this is weak. Oh those hilarious drones

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      • This loses all meaning when you consider the fact that those “7 year old consoles” had tech in them good enough to satisfy console gamers for those 7 years.
        A small leap over something good enough to last 7 years is still a good leap, and well worth being called satisfactory.

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  33. I don’t understand specs, so can someone tell me if their good or not, and how much more powerful is it than the Xbox 360 and PS3? Thanks

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    • overall it is powerful. lower CPU clocks doesn’t mean it’s weak. Some games utilizes clock speeds, more than available core, hence “may” suffer too some degree, who knows how much. but good optimization can solve it, or at least reduce that “suffering”.

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  35. So, a mid-range GPU from last year, and a CPU less powerful than that found in the 360/PS3, hardware made in 2005. Hope Nintendo likes bottlenecks.

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  36. That CPU is kind of sad. The 360’s CPU was outdated by 2008, and this is going to be a huge bottleneck if the Wii U’s isn’t much better. There are really good AMD 7 series GPUs, but that covers a wide range of performance levels, and I’m sure the Wii U is using a weaker one, considering its speculated price point. 1GB of RAM is also now.
    I was expecting the console to be weak, but this is a little disappointing, if it’s real. Not that the hardware is as important as the games, but still.

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  41. Wii was weaker, still did better. Wii U will do the same, regardless of whether its CPU is slightly lower or not. “Oh, looks like the CPU is a little weaker. Guess I’m not buying it.” XD Like shut the fuck up.

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  43. Sorry for being a little slowpoke, but what’s the type of midia they’re using on the Wii U again? I heard it was something like a “super huge DVD” with 20 gb or something like that. Maybe it has something to do with the CPU capacity, right? I mean, games should adapt to their own midia: no wonder the PS3 graphics looks a tiny bit better than 360, if you put your TV on HDMI.

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    • It’s basically a reverse-engineered Blu-ray disc. So they won’t have to pay the royalties to Sony, etc. Panasonic will probably have them written the same way as they did Wii discs.

      So 25GB single layer, 50GB dual…etc.

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  44. Weak specs. At least it puts those idiotic “DX11” Nintendrones to rest.

    Also, “AMD series 7”? How vague. Unless they’re talking about R700, right? Sounds like it…

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      • There is absolutely no evidence to support that this is a Power7 CPU. Ultimately when it comes to games, GPU is more important. In this case, we have a clearly outdated GPU series dating back to 2008.

        Educate yourself.

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          • Read the fucking article you stupid piece of shit. HE CLEARLY FUCKING SAYS POWER PC.

            You’re grasping at straws. This is not POWER7. I repeat, this is not POWER7 and you cannot prove that it is. Enough of this horseshit.

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            • lol, you are ridiculous, it’s a waste of time talking with you, you are a fucking idiot that knows nothing, even with the links (that you probably did not read) You’re talking shit through his mouth…. You are just a kid, that pretend to knows crap, but actually, you are just a fucking drone.

              Aeolus “it starts” troll, a blind moron asking me to read the links that I post. Let’s update your slogan, Aeolus “it starts talk crap” troll…

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        • Aeolus are u expecting a 2012/2011 gpu? Cuz that’s not realistic even for ps4/720 the most they will get is a later ’09/’10 gpu they have to have something that they can make money on and not have a massive loss on units sold…thought u would’ve known this from watching what happened to Sony and ps3 wen it first came out, tried to b reasonable with the hardware they had in the system….look how fast that system flew off the shelf at launch :/

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            • It’s only realistic if you’re an elitist momma’s boy.
              The price tag it would need to have to not be sold at a loss, for such tech, would be enough on its own to guarantee it won’t happen.
              Not with this. Not with your precious future systems, either.
              And if they use older tech to try and keep the price down while still doing an improvement over the Wii U, and you still buy the systems despite the older tech, it will be the greatest moment of hypocrisy you will ever be guilty of.

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              • Sorry, I don’t read fanboy drivel. You don’t know anything about technology, so don’t try to argue it against me. It’ll only result in your embarrassment.

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        • no powerpc = powerpc drop this retarded power7 BS

          its a powerpc 400 with broadway spec the clockspeed will be minimum 1.6ghz its a powerpc 32 bit 45nm cpu x 3 cores

          please look up powerpc 476fp for a insight into the cpu its the same process

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  47. This is foreign language to me, but someone mentioned keeping the system cool might’ve been the thinking behind the less powerful cpu. Nintendo is one cagey company; I think they’re privy to somethin’ we don’t know yet.
    … Still getting one. Developers (who actually know what they’re talking about [and I don’t mean TrollFantasyDreamland ‘know’]) are excited for it. Retro’s mystery game is enough to make me sold on the Wii U. Retro Zelda?

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  48. Do Not forget that Nintendo has the innovative tablet controller, although with that CPU I doubt you can fight more than 3 enemies but don’t worry they will all look better that Nathan drake, hahaha, but there will be only 3

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    • It will because the next xbox will(and I am 99.9% sure about this) run dX11 in some way. Wii au won’t be far behind though, the graphics will be up. Todate but the cpu may hamper the size of the maps or amount of ai at once. Altogether I think it won’t be too big of a gap.

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  50. To all the people saying Nintendo made a mistake with the Wii and they are just now catching up…All the specs execpt the CPU are better then a 360 and ps3. Also, wasn’t the Wii the best selling console of last generation? Didn’t it out sell the ps3 and the 360 by a landslide? When Skyward Sword got released, didn’t most gamers who sold their Wii, went out and bought a new one? The answer to all those questions is yes. The WiiMote wasn’t flawed, and Skyward Sword justifies the WiiMote (it does piss me off that Nintendo released the Wiis’ swansong 5 years after the damn thing came out, that game would have helped sell motion controls if Nintendo would have released it at the beginning of it’s life span). But, Skyward Sword, Xenoblade, Last Story, Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, Kirby: Return to Dreamland, Twilight Priness, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a New World, Red Steel 2, No More Heroes, Mad World, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Super Paper Mario, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil 4 (with better controls), and a bunch more games made the Wii fantastic. Don’t hate because Nintendo knows what they are doing…

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    • This exactly, and nintendo fans, same thing goes for you, 360 and ps3 aare amazing consoles too, don’t hate them because they have better tech.

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    • The Wii did win in terms of sales, but lost in terms of games. Also you don’t benefit from the sales Nintendo does, so if a console is in last place, but has the best games, then overall it’s the winner.

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      • How did it lose in terms of games?
        Because it wasn’t the third-party hit of that generation?
        Dude, it didn’t lose in games just because supposedly “core” gamers didn’t run out and make it their main system of choice.
        Like it or not, casuals are important parts of the gaming community too.

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          • Just as many, but then again, that depends ENTIRELY on your taste in games, so it’s going to differ from person to person.
            It wasn’t a system for shooter fans, at the least, but it definitely had its own gems even in that category.
            A reliable point, though, is that the systems would not have sold as well as they did without an abundance of gamers who saw games they considered high quality that they wanted on the system.

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    • >Says its barely over current gen specs
      >Worships the PS3 for its specs
      >Still says its horrible even though its still more than a match for the PS3.

      Dude, you’re a Sony drone with hater’s logic that only absorbs the negatives without looking at the positives.
      You take the tiny flaws and over-blow them to proportions that make you feel like you’ve won the race when you haven’t even left the starting line.

      You’re not convincing anyone of anything other than how disappointed you are over not being able to gloat that it’s weaker than the PS3 in every single area.

      True gamers will still get this console.
      Just like they got the PS3, 360, and Wii.
      Don’t bother trying to tell us what your definition of a “true gamer” is, either. We’ve heard it all before. You don’t think anyone who owns a Nintendo system is a true gamer. Har-de-fucking-har-har.

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      • Sorry, I don’t pay mind to butt-devastated horseshit filled with lies claiming myself to be doing things I’ve never done.

        Until you find where the fuck I’ve said any of that. I’ll acknowledge your pathetic, disgusting, fanboy existence. Nobody is going to be putting words in my mouth here.

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        • At every fork and turn in the road, you’ve done nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, but defend the PS3 and the upcoming PS4, while roundly bashing anything you could find to bash on here.
          You have proven, through your own disdain for the system due to who makes it, before it’s even out, that you would rather take a PS3 over the Wii U.
          You don’t need to directly state that for the truth of it to be right out there in the fucking open.
          The way you act has put forth all the evidence anyone with half a brain needs to have, to figure out that you’re a cock-sucking sony drone pot who roundly calls the kettle black at every fucking turn.
          You are also a homophobic bitch-monkey who over-uses the word “faggot” as if it somehow makes you a clever boy when it just proves you’re an insecure man-bitch.
          Get the fuck off our site, fan boy.
          You’ve done all of that and worse, and you’re just fucking embarrassing your shit-brained self now.
          It’s painful to even watch how weak-ass you are.
          In fact, you’re so fucking sad that you’re not worth a single post more.
          The evidence stands loud and clear, from every single post you’ve made on this site since you registered that weak-ass, uninspired, troll-brand name of yours, and you’re not worth our time.
          Have fun replying, kid. Your attention well is now dry and you won’t be receiving any further views.

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  53. This is releatively good news, the graphics should last long enough, the cpu is OK, it could be better but it’ll get the job done. DX 10 support is good, I was hoping for dx11 like the 720 but this is great considering it should have a low price. I’m really hoping the cpu doesn’t hamper the size and scale of games and the AI. But I doubt it. Also a lot of you fanboys need to understand that gaming isn’t a religion so quite acting like your consoles a god because its better then 6 year old conoles. Lol, Also I’m probably going to get this knowing that its going to be powerful enough to handle future console games, and likey multiplats from the 720. This is pretty good news for nintendo.

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  55. I don’t know anything about specs, I trust my eyes, and I like what i’ve seen from WiiU so far!

    People like to compare the Wii U to PS3 and Xbox 360. but it’s not always a fair comparision.
    The first Wii U games are on pair with the latest graphics of PS3 and 360. When sony’s console came, the first games looked a lot worse, and now just look at The Last of Us! Developers need time to take advantage of the hardware.

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  56. God you guys are all pathetic. Fighting over a freaking piece of technology? Really? It feels like i’m watching a group of cavemen fight over a piece of meat.

    It’s a fact that PS4 and 720 will be more powerful then Wii U. Arguing about Motion controls is POINTLESS! Both Sony and Microsoft did it too, why do people tend to forget that?

    This is why the gaming industry will burn down soon..

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  59. I am going to buy a Wii U when it comes out, but I have to say this is the biggest shit article I have seen on this site yet. NO SOURCE, ITS TITLED DEV FINALLY RELEASE SPCS WHAT DEV, IT DOEN’T EVEN SAY THIS IS A RUMOR.

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    • It’s anonymous because the devs in question are breaking the non-disclosure agreement that has not yet been officially lifted.
      If the name of the developers in question was released, they would lose their jobs, so of course there’s no name to the source.
      Unlike so many other times, where people have used the anonymity to bash the specs, this time there is a reason.

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      • I have to agree with you. The specs of the Wii U isn’t 100% legit unless we get confirmation from either Nintendo of Japan President Iwata or Nintendo of America President and COO Fils-Aime.

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  61. I think I am convinced now that Wii U is substantially stronger than current-gen consoles. Forget that, of course it’s stronger. My question, however, is will Wii U get most multi-platform titles from both current-gen and next-gen? Good software makes a system appealing. I want all my favorite third-party franchises and some new ones on there, not just my favorite Nintendo franchises. So far, I don’t hear much third-party support. Surprise me, Nintendo. I want to be hooked.

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    • If you want surprise, you will need to wait until at least the middle of its first year or so of life.
      It generally takes about that long for third-party developers to truly start getting the hints and tricks for developing with the new architecture of a system.
      Getting upset when the third-party franchises released initially aren’t as great as expected won’t help to form a fair opinion of the system as a whole, after all.

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              • oh that’s easy

                all AMD GPUs from the HD 5, HD 6 and HD 7 series support pixel shader model 5.0 and DX 11
                a downgrade is neither helpful nor easily done in an existing architecture
                if you don’t believe it google it

                the CPU architecture has already been confirmed by IBM to be based on POWER7 architecture and i believe if anyone knows for sure it should be them

                http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/34683.wss

                powerPC != POWER7

                and yes because these tidbits are proven wrong i dare to believe that all of the specs are actually just made up crap

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                • Except nobody said this was Southern Islands and there are numerous series of cards referred to as “7 series”. R700 is, AMD 700 as well, and Southern Islands. He is clearly implying HD4000 as always rumored. So, yeah that’s one down.

                  That press release makes 0 mention of POWER7 or anything particularly specific. That’s two down.

                  Try again.

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                  • the R700 was never referred to as the “7 series” show me a single example of the R700 being referred to as the 7 series

                    that press release which you obviously failed to read thoroughly makes the following mentions

                    “The all-new, Power-based microprocessor”

                    there you have it
                    power-based not powerPC-based
                    if they’d been referring to powerPC they would have said so don’t you think?
                    does it say powerPC? no it doesn’t

                    next statement:
                    “IBM’s unique embedded DRAM, for example”
                    POWER7 is so far the only POWER architecture that sports eDRAM in case you didn’t know
                    next one:
                    “IBM plans to produce millions of chips for Nintendo featuring IBM Silicon on Insulator (SOI) technology at 45 nanometers”
                    POWER7 is also so far the only POWER architecture that has been manufactured in 45nm so another big indicator that we’re looking at a POWER7 CPU in the Wii-U

                    so there we have the confirmation that it’s POWER7 and not maybe an earlier architecture like POWER6

                    i don’t doubt for a second that this wouldn’t be enough proof for the state of denial you’re in but it doesn’t make the facts any less.. fact
                    so you better go suck it ;)

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                    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_700_chipset_series

                      i hope you realize that this is a link to the motherboard chipset by AMD

                      the neogaf link you posted has a SINGLE guy (lightchris) referring to the r700 as a “series 7 GPU” while misinterpreting a post by another guy who was actually referring to the southern island GPUs

                      everyone else calls it “series 700 GPU” and just runs with the misinterpreted post by lightchris without second guessing

                      pity being a gamer doesn’t make you tech savy

                      you call em gamers

                      i call em clueless gullible goons much like yourself which the internet is unfortunately full of

                      god you’re pathetic

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                    • Look at this lunatic who, just like stratisfire is suggesting that Nintendo is using a custom Southern Islands and happened to butcher it so hard that it’s a DX10.1/Shader Model 4 card.

                      Call this “fake” all you want, you can’t prove that it isn’t. End of discussion.

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                    • you’re not listening (as usual) i’m saying these specs are incorrect which would also make the DX10/shader model 4.0 claim incorrect

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          • and by the by
            as long as you don’t know WHAT GPU it’s based on any statements like “no they’re not substantially stronger” are completely without any basis
            just like the opposite statement

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            • We already can safely say it’s a R700 card, your argument is weak and based off the assumption that just because it has a tessellation unit *which 360 has by the way* means it’s a DX11 card. It is not, by any means.

              Until you can argue that these specs are wrong with factual evidence, then you can have a case.

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              • “We already can safely say it’s a R700 card”

                to put it in your words:
                prove it

                and we also don’t know if it has a tesselation unit

                the other specs i have already proven wrong
                if not wrong then at least very unreliable

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                • No, you have not proven anything wrong. In fact the entire gaf thread going on right now will reveal many of what you claim to be utter nonsense. Everybody knows they’re not referring to “amd series 7” as HD7xxx, they’re talking about R700, as noted multiple times.

                  Power7 has not been mentioned, and has continued to not be mentioned by IBM. Therefore, you have no case.

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                  • i’m still waiting for proof
                    you have not delivered a SINGLE snippet of proof
                    i on the other hand did, you simply didn’t manage to read and research it properly which really isn’t my fault
                    this discussion is over until you do ;)

                    also if you enter AMD 7 series into google.. guess what turns up? exactly.. the motherboard chipset series and of course the southern island graphics cards

                    your “Everybody knows” is a one man show buddy

                    literally NO ONE refers to the R700 as the “7-series”
                    guess you’re alone on that one

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                    • they’re not even considering the possibility that the specs released might be faked instead of it being a typo (what typo? they forgot to type 2 zeros? of course that happens every day)
                      what a bunch of morons

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                    • “Faked” Everything isn’t going to be faked you fucking dipshit. Literally the majority of Wii U rumors imply R700, and even the specs are suggesting such. You are calling it fake based off one trivial detail why as far as I’m concerned, is not only ambiguous, but once again, features a line of cards referred to as such.

                      You said I’m alone on that part? I’m not, the forums are right there in your fucking face and the majority of posters are calling it R700, good luck convincing me and them that you’re right and they’re wrong. Because I can assure you that you are not.

                      Wii U is going to be 2008 tech, with nothing going for it. You might as well accept the inevitable, Nintendrone.

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                    • i don’t have to convince anyone
                      i know that i’m correct in my assumption that we know nothing yet

                      that includes you which would leave you on the “wrong side”

                      and since apparently you continue to suffer from a significant lack of proof concerning your claim you can just go ahead and continue to jerk off with your oh so knowledgeable neogaf petting pals over how you supposedly know something that stems from rumors and hearsay

                      that’s totally sufficient for me :)

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    • none is my guess since half of these specs can be revealed as being incorrect or contradictory due to information that has already been released by official sources (AMD and IBM)

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  67. i am confused? Why do people come on this website if they don’t like Nintendo? the name of the website is My Nintendo News…. also I have no idea what the specs mean unless they say that is is better or worse than current gens and even though the CPU was worse it sounds like it didn’t cause any issues so no biggie right?

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    • No where in the name does it say you must only have something good to say about Nintendo. You can still like Nintendo put have opinions that aren’t in their favor. It’s called criticism.

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      • I completely get that. It’s just that I have been reading comments on a couple of pages and there are some people that I feel like just don’t like Nintendo. I actually agree with most of the things people have said about the CPU and stuff.

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  68. I am taking this with 1/100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 of a grain of salt
    a) This is eurogamer, remember last time they talked about Wii U, definitely a credible source

    b)An anonymous developer, “anonymous delevopers” aren’t always who they say they are

    c)After reading the whole article they mentioned once or twice how Nintendo fans think multiplat games(Arkham city) look worse on Wii U than the PS3 Xbox 360, and similar remarks elsewhere

    I won’t believe anything until NIntendo tells us or someone rips it open

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  71. Nintendo didn’t release the specs themselves
    An Anonymous developer is saying all this
    Many developers said it runs DX11, yet this “anonymous” one says it runs DX10

    The fact that people are actually believing this shit is funny.
    How about you wait till Nintendo says ti themselves.

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    • you should be able to watch blurays once you mod the console and install the appropriate homebrew software just like with the wii

      after all the wii-u will use a standard bluray disk drive to read its disks (which are of course based on bluray disks)
      it merely lacks the software to actually play bluray video
      natively it won’t play blurays videos no

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    • Nintendo did not post this… it’s from “anonymous source” who thinks he knows the specs of the Wii U, but it’s not 100% legit. The Big N will give us the specs either before (from Iwata in Japan) or during the press briefing with The Regginator on September 13th.

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      • this is definitely not even close to being 100% legit
        i have no idea why “mynintendonews” tries to sell it as such

        the cpu has already been confirmed by IBM (press release) as being based on POWER 7 architecture and an HD series 7 GPU that only supports direct x 10 and shader model 4 (all GPUs since the HD 6 series support DX 11 and shader model 5) makes absolutely no sense
        thus this info here is at the *least* partially incorrect and if it’s this flawed there’s no real reason to believe any of it is correct

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        • isnt it obvious, the OP here are huge trolls, they care more about hits than actually giving us news. This site has gone to shit, I just like coming for the fantards

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      • btw
        nintendo prolly won’t release any detailed specs
        they never did for any of their other consoles

        what we heard from them so far regarding the wii-u’s specs is likely all we’re ever gonna hear directly from nintendo

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        • I can’t deny you one single bit, kehool. I’m sure that Nintendo won’t give any spec details of the U. We all know that their GPU is based on IBM’s Power 7 (the very same processor used in WATSON supercomputer), etc. Thumbs up for you bro.

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  75. power PC? i’m sorry but this directly contradicts about the only known fact that has been confirmed so far… IBM confirmed last year that the CPU would be based on POWER 7 architecture
    POWER 7 != Power PC

    and a HD series 7 GPU that only supports dx 10?

    this smells very very fishy to me
    for now i’m not going to believe a word of it until these contradictions are cleared

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  76. like iv been telling you people for like 2/3 tears wiiu cpu will follow broadway its based on 2010 45nm powerpc 400 tech

    with the cores BROADWAY ENHANCED AND A CUSTOM 3MB EDRAM CATCH the cores are 5 instructions per clock efficient clearly the cpu is a 3x core powerpc as in POWERPC 476FP but not fp instead Broadway 2 ….

    the expected clockspeed is 1.6ghz to 2.0ghz as thats powerpc 45nm 400 clockspeed it maybe higher say 2.4ghz but i expect a 1.6ghz tri core aditional to the cpu is a dedicated sound processor a DSP and a ARM CO CPU like starlet in wii…..

    the cpu vs ps3 and x360 would be 3x core powerpc out of order a sound dsp and a arm co cpu vs the cpu of x360 in a like for like comparison……

    we are looking at a cpu around 15 x more powerful than wiis broadway it supports SMP and has the worlds bext singlecore per core performance in the world off the shelf this powerpc core is twice the cpu a ARM A9 IS CLOCK FOR CLOCK so a tri core at 1.6ghz would be a very least 3 x as powerful as a 1.6ghz dualcore ARM A9

    it has 5 instructions per clock per core vs 2 instructions of x360s xenon cpu and it processes in out of order not crappy inline like x360s xenon also each core boasts 5 execution units xenon only has 1 execution unit per core

    xenon of x360 has 1 execution unit per core 3 in total wiiu has 5 per core 15 in total wiiu has 3mb edram catch (edram twice bandwidth of sram per clock) x360 has 1mb sram catch

    x360 has no sound processor or buddy cpu wii u has a ARM BUDDY CPU (STARLET 2) AND A DEDICATED DSP SOUND ENGINE

    its clearly at very least 2x x360s cpu power with amassive catch me,memory

    other factual things i know

    x360 3.2ghz x2 instructions = 6400 instructions x 3 cores = 19200 instructions inline

    wiiu cpu if at 1.6ghz 5 instructions x 1.6ghz =8000 x 3 cores =24000 instrutions out of order not crappy inline then ad sound dsp and arm co cpu CLEARLY EATS X360 FOR DINNER WITH A MASSIVE HEAT SAVING POWER USE SAVING AND MASSIVE RELIABILLITY IMPROVMENTS

    FLOPS NOT NEEDED ON CPU AS GPU DESTROYS FLOPS OF X360 PS3 AND WII GPUS CONBINED AND IS COMPUT SHADER READY

    ITS ALL CALLED COMMONSENSE THE ABOVE THAT IS (IM CORE I KNOW WHAT IM SAYING TAKE ABOVE AS CORE FACT)

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  77. I’ll just wait until the WiiU comes out, and then see the reviews on it’s games. Then we’ll all see and maybe the trolls will taste defeat, just like aeolus tasted defeat upon reading the article that new super mario bros. 2 is still lead selling.

    On a side note, this article has the most replies I’ve seen yet.

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  78. guys guys guys and gals just look up powerpc 476fp then remove the fp ad in broadway ad a custom catch x cores by 3 expect a 1.6ghz or above clock speed theres your wiiu cpu

    also theres no way in hell the os uses 512mb whilst games are running if its 1.5 gb then expect at least 1gb plus 256mb plus for games 512mb os wghilst games are running get lost

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  80. This is what I don’t get about you damn sony/microsoft fanboys… If Nintendo is not a threat then why the hell do you come to these sites and troll? Is your life meaningless? Newsflash dumbass any true nintendo fan or gaming fan, does not give a damn about how powerful it is. You want power? Get a gaming pc… A customizable platform with which you can do so much more. Nintendo shaped this damn industry and if you know anything about how Sony works you know they copy everything Nintendo does because they know Nintendo will sell even if it’s a turd with an N on it. The only thing they do is add more. More this, more that. Nintendo puts 2 shoulder buttons on, Sony adds 2 more. Nintendo adds a thumbstick, sony adds another. Nintendo makes a motion controller, sony points-laughs-thinks nintendo has lost it-shits a brick when it sells-throws money at everyone until they get one themselves and it FAILS. I laughed when the move came out. If sony didn’t have the exclusives they have I wouldn’t even bother. But they have them cuz they throw money at everything. Remember they have other ventures so they have the money to spend. Oh and GoW and Infamous are the only good things to ever come out of Sony. Deal with it.

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  81. I seriously cannot understand why people are being hostile over gaming hardware and such. If you don’t like Nintendo/the WiiU then what are you doing here? This is a site for Nintendo based news, not to spew your hate. There are some disgusting comments on these posts that make me ashamed to be a human. Why can’t we all just get along, whether or not what console(s) we prefer. If you care so much about graphics/tech then i suggest a PC. Also we don’t even know the true specs, these are just anonymous devs that can’t be trusted. I’ve fortunately got all 3 consoles (wii, ps3, xbox) and I like them all, please stop with the homophobic, sexist, racist and such insults because all they do is make you look like an ignorant individual who thinks they’re better than everyone else. Want a ps3? get one. Want an xbox? get one. Want a wii? get one. Same goes for the Wii u and the other upcoming consoles. Grow up. I’ve seen kids act more mature.

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  82. What is this? You don’t cite your source, and you don’t even state who made that quote? For all I know you pulled that out of thin air. Great reporting.

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    • I know right, and they even say that “developers finally” Which we have no clue who actually “reveal wii u specs” It’s all anonymous and there for we shouldn’t trust it.

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