THQ Clarifies Claims of "Horrible, Slow" Wii U CPU

An anonymous reader writes "THQ has clarified comments made by 4A Games' chief technical officer, Oles Shishkovtsov, about why their upcoming first-person shooter, Metro, won't be available for Nintendo's new Wii U console. Shishkovtsov had told NowGamer, '[The] Wii U has a horrible, slow CPU,' by way of explaining why a Wii U version of Metro wasn't in the works. Now, THQ's Huw Beynon has provided a more thorough (and more diplomatic) explanation: 'It's a very CPU intensive game. I think it's been verified by plenty of other sources, including your own Digital Foundry guys, that the CPU on Wii U on the face of it isn't as fast as some of the other consoles out there. Lots of developers are finding ways to get around that because of other interesting parts of the platform. ... We genuinely looked at what it would take to bring the game to Wii U. It's certainly possible, and it's something we thought we'd like to do. The reality is that would mean a dedicated team, dedicated time and effort, and it would either result in a detriment to what we're trying to focus on or we probably wouldn't be able to do the Wii U version the justice that we'd want.'"

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Re:Better get used to it, THQ

[JonJ]

Why did he get modded down when that is pretty much it in a nutshell?

Because every console manufacturer uses PowerPC you fucking idiot. It takes fuck all effort to research this, so why his moronic dribble, and your fantasticly idiotic post got modded above -1 "God Damn Moron" is beyond my comprehension. Whenever I see one of your posts, I just automatically assume it's full of stupid bullshit. You are the worst two-faced Microsoftfanboy to ever pollute the waters of the internet, I sure as shit hope your sorry ass didn''t reproduce.

Re:Better get used to it, THQ

[hairyfeet]

Ohhh, did the poor wittle FOSSie get his panties in a wad this morning? And its kind of sad that FOSS attracts total fucking retards like yourself (Protip: Don't go full retard) or else you would have known I've been BASHING THE FUCK OUT OF WIN 8 YOU DIPSHIT which kind of makes it pretty hard to be a fanboi (like you so obviously are) or shill when I'M BASHING THE LATEST PRODUCT AS GARBAGE

And hey dipshit, you no able to read? how about You read the specs and compare because by the pathetic thing you call logic why then a G3 from 1997 is cutting edge, why it has a PPC chip too...right?

so go back to jerking over a Bash script FOSSie, nobody wants your shitty OS nor cares, BTW how is the marketshare? oh that is right..its been flatline for years. could it be the fact that even a Red hat dev says its a disaster or the fact that full of show stopping bugs that go back years? Nahh, that couldn't be it, why it has the blessing of the great and always classy RMS!