15th April 2011, 5:18 PM
etoven Wrote:So when you consider that the Wii was barely more powerful then the game cube and the PS3 at the time had more cores then the Wii had ram.. I predict this next upgrade will be PS2 level on a 64 bit platform.. Ok I'll be generous maybe I single, Intel core I5 thrown in simply because the I7 with turbo boost technology is two awesome for Satoru Iwata :)
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Well it's twice as powerful as the Gamecube in a lot of ways, so it's a bit better than that, but yes not nearly as powerful as the PS3 or 360. What does "more cores than the Wii had RAM" mean? Cores aren't a measure of memory, so I'm not sure that analogy maps in any meaningful way...
PS2 level? The Gamecube was more powerful than the PS2, so are you saying the next system will actually go down in power?
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