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

[hairyfeet]

You want to know what I fucking hate about Linux? Two things, 1.-The FOSSie faction are so fucking batshit that you can rub their nose in fucking horrible design choices like rubbing a puppy's nose in shit and they'll just go "La la la, smells like roses, la la la" and 2.- FIX YOUR SHITTY DRIVER SUBSYSTEM ALREADY!

For the love of God how damned long is everybody gonna buy Torvalds bullshit about an ABI? watch how even basic fucking math can show he is full of shit...You have MAYBE 2000 guys IF THAT on the ENTIRE PLANET that are truly qualified to debug and write low level system drivers and are willing to deal with Torvalds and his cronies, how many drivers you got? Ohh 150,000 EASY. so if you shot Bolivian marching powder up the asses of those 2000 guys 24/7/365 then they STILL wouldn't have enough fucking hours to provide QA and QC for the insane amount of drivers that get shit on each fucking month...ARRRGH!

So until the fucking FOSSies admit that EVERY SINGLE OS ON THE PLANET besides theirs, BSD, OSX, Windows, fuck even OS/2, are NOT wrong on such an obvious God damned design choice then yeah, i'm gonna point out they are completely full of shit. I have offered time and time again for them to step up and take the hairyfeet challenge, NONE will accept...why? because they KNOW the drivers will shit the bed, that's why! And I'm giving them not one but TWO major advantages right off the bat, they are only having to show they can support HALF the lifecycle of Windows and I'm willing to take Vista, the shittiest release this side of WinME!

So while you seem like a sane guy I hope you can see why I'm happy to bitchslap a FOSSie whenever I can because they are fucking delusional! I mean you go to TMRepo and that is EVERY argument you will see here condensed to 20 or so lines of bullshit, the "it works for me" the "moving the goalposts" the "Linux has more drivers" every line of complete fucking horseshit spewed from the mouths of FOSSies for 20 damned years in just 20 TMs.

But what do they do when the truth is rubbed into their noses like shit? "La la la, you're a dirty poo poo head that must work for M$!, You just love M$"...riiight, which is why I've been calling for Ballmer to be fucking FIRED for half a decade, and why I said Win 8 is a cheap cellphone wannabe that other than HTPCs where you want big ass screen sucking buttons to make it easy to hit with a remote it is a giant pile of shit, unsuitable for purpose. yep i bet Steve Ballmer himself goes "You know he's right, I AM a big fat sweaty incompetent that only got this job by being Bill's little buddy! let's hire that guy right now!"...fucking retards, that's what they are, total fucking retards that have drank so much of the koolaid that Torvalds could change the code so that every damned desktop just played a GIF of him laying a big old turd on a plate and they'd be discussing "How Linus is pointing out what its like to deal with proprietary software!".