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Wii Graphics 'Better Than At E3'
Gamespot and GameDaily have additional details on Nintendo's upcoming console. Gamespot reports on comments by Nintendo President Iwata that they were specifically not going for high-end graphics with the Wii. He goes on to say that some of their staff initially disagreed with the adoption of the Wiimote, but public and internal reaction has allayed the fears of detractors. GameDaily reports on comments from ATI, who says there is still a lot left to see from Wii's graphical output. What was shown at E3 was 'just the tip of the iceberg.' From the article: "Industry sources have said that the Wii GPU would be moderately more powerful than the GameCube's GPU, but how much more we don't know. Conservative estimates from developers have placed the Wii console as a whole at 2 - 2.5 times more powerful than the GameCube."
I plan to, also, but his point is still a valid one...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
In relative computing power 2-2.5x more powerful is NOTHING in the realm of consoles. The console cycle is 5-7 years. Usually performance increases are anywhere from 10-20x that of the previous generation. The ps1 had 1MB of vram and to get to ps2 graphics it had 16mb of vram and 32x the system ram. It also pushed about 16-20x the polygons. I don't remember off the top of my head but it went from several hundred thousand to a figure over 10 million.
The ps3 is a similar jump.
Hmmm... Pie...
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