Unless HDTV improves to better resolutions why release a new console that is going to offer nothing new above what the new wii can do.I can't see ms or Sony releasing much until display technology catches up to show off what new consoles are capable of.
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Unless HDTV improves to better resolutions why release a new console that is going to offer nothing new above what the new wii can do.I can't see ms or Sony releasing much until display technology catches up to show off what new consoles are capable of.
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Didnt the 360 use a modified R520 GPU or something, im guessing the Wii U is likely to use a modified 48X0/58X0 GPU as anything below that would be worse or equal to the 360 and above a 58X0 GPU would be too costly.
In AMD's press release it states the GPU will be a custom Radeon HD chip which in my eyes would quate to a 48/58/68 series GPU with 58X0 being the most likely chip to be used based on cost/performance.
In AMD's press release it states the GPU will be a custom Radeon HD chip which in my eyes would quate to a 48/58/68 series GPU with 58X0 being the most likely chip to be used based on cost/performance.
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You won't be saying that when the games you want to play are only available on new platforms but I wouldn't worry too much about the cost as the hardware in the wii 2 should be cheap to produce (it is basically the 360/PS3 6/7 years after the fact) meaning they can spend more of the budget on that tablet thing.
Quite embarrassing that they used footage from their competitors platforms in the presentation video though.
Just because resolution is fixed at 1920x1080 doesn't mean you can't render better images on the screen. I could run Quake 1 at 1920x1080, but it's not going to look as nice as Crysis at 1920x1080, is it?
So visuals will not be improved because most commercial screens go up to 1080p. Seriously lol.
Graphical power though. As said, Crysis at hi res looks better than Quake at hi res and Crysis requires much more computing power than quake does.
I never said they would not be improved,but not to the point to warrant a console just yet for what will be a stop gap until 4000 x2000 displays become mainstream
That was one of the features i was excited to see. (i do play a lot of TW's though)
We are already hitting the limits with the current generation. I can tell you now we are screaming for larger texture budgets and removal of other limitations.
Is the new wii still limited for this generation
I don't know as the company is still under NDA and lower minions haven't got to play with the hardware yet.
But there is some very excited people in the code departments.
Hold your horses... There's no point expecting TVs to jump to that sort of resolution yet. I doubt regular HDTV has remotely reached market saturation yet, and people won't stand for buying another TV so soon. Look at Blu-Ray... that's still taking it's time to take off. I'm pretty sure DVD still outsells Blu-Ray, doesn't it?
If you think there isn't scope for an improvement over 360 grade graphics, then I think you're missing the point. Most 360 games are rendered at 720p or thereabouts and then scaled up, and even then the effects involved are well behind what can be done on a PC. If they increase what can be internally rendered, and improve the effects and physics that they can create, then so much the better.
Enough to release a loss making console.
Console always lose money, games make the money.
That is exactly my point.A fps is still a fps at 720p and 1080p
Except this is where Nintendo exceeds as they always release a console with a profit margin, no subsidized costs.
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Now the real question is, what will Nintendo's next console be? Wii U and I?