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Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design
Vigile writes "Nintendo has never been known to be very aggressive with its gaming console hardware and with today's release (in the U.S.) of the Wii U we are seeing a continuation of that business model. PC Perspective spent several hours last night taking apart a brand new console to reveal a very simplistic board and platform design topped off with the single multi-chip module that holds the IBM PowerPC CPU and the AMD GPU. The system includes 2GB of GDDR3 memory from Samsung and Foxconn/Hon-Hai built wireless controllers for WiFi and streaming video the gamepad. Even though this system is five years newer, many analysts estimate the processing power of Nintendo's Wii U to be just ahead of what you have in the Xbox 360 today."
I don't know about you, but I sure found my computer to double as a nifty word processor, internet surfing device, and really convenient tool for recording music. I even heard rumors of other people using their computers to do some of this weird new "design work" or something... I think it was Otto Cad or something... whatever it was I heard they could use their computer to actually earn real live money! The best part about my computer was that since I was already getting one, and would already need a video card, the upgrade to a nicer card wasn't all that big of a leap! Those were the good old days.
Good thing I'm not actually bored enough to compare a computer to a gaming platform. Hey, quick pole.. how many people are reading this from a gaming console?