PPU is an awful, dated architecture - particularly the 7XX variant that the Wii and Wii U are using. What aren't you gettting, Darth? Not only that, but its underclocked to all Hell to keep heat and power consumption down. The average Nokia cell phone has a better - significantly better - CPU, and I'm not exaggerating.
I'm out of bubbles, and I don't think you understand the chip very well, so read up on PPU architecture and the Wii chip and you'll underst...
Darth, maybe you missed the part where its three enhanced broadway (Wii CPUs) stapled together. Bad CPU is bad. The low speed only adds to its fail. This isn't some genius, new-age, multi-threaded design, its a PPU core, which NO ONE uses anymore on account of its inefficiency.
Its a crap hardware design, shackdaddy. Nintendo should be called out for it. MS or Sony would be slaughtered in the press if they released a console like that.
I don't know why you're schooling me, as I already stated that "everything else was worse". Or maybe I'm just misreading your tone. The memory bandwith is as abysmal as the rest of this hardware design.
They've (neogaf and Beyond 3D) have pegged it as a triple core, enhanced broadway chip - the same CPU found in the Wii.
The GPU is moderately better than last gen consoles, but everything else is worse except maybe disc read speed.
Kinda pathetic no matter which way you slice it.
Only Nintendo can get away with this crap. That's like Apple releasing a new phone with an A3 chip in it and an SD screen - they would be murdered.
No. Prequels are the lazy-writer's copout. "I can't think of new material, so I'll just show you some stuff that you already know is gonna happen! But I'll add a few peripheral characters and cameos for the lore hounds. Best part, is that I don't even need to write an ending, cause, you know..."
If any other company, in any other electronics manufacturing business was to release the sort of hardware cobbled together out of 6-7 year old parts like Nintendo has for two generations now, post-GC era, they would be bankrupt. It is the strength of the Nintendo IPs alone that allows them to act with such impertinence as they do. I don't think that this will work in Nintendo's favour in today's market when the average tablet (Google Nexus 10) can run circles around their device....
The techheads at Neogaf and Beyond3D estimated it at around 1.5 ghz, which is poor, but better than this assumption. I call shenanigans.
32MB. That won't make up for such poor bandwidth, not by a long shot. Early speculation puts the CPU as a souped up, tri-core Broadway (Wii CPU) at 1.5 ghz.
The hardware is utterly disappointing in this day and age. All the cost went to the controller, obviously.
A turd costs practically nothing too (just a little bit of food the night before to make one), go play with one of those and report back to me on how fulfilling that is.
A fool and his money are easily parted.
Sorry, but this looks awful. A "Magic" game without well, "magic" is kinda fail.
There are better games on the Vita than this. Go pick up AC or Ragnarok Odyssey. Heck P4G is out tomorrow and that should be killer.
Those in denial can read the threads themselves:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...
http://forum.beyond3d.com/s...
The power consumption - due to the lowish specs - on the device is rather brilliant though.
In some respects - disc read speed, moderately more powerful GPU, AMOUNT of memory available - yes. In others - CPU, RAM SPEED and bandwidth available for games - no.
Its a toss up. In essence its about the same, though with a fancy new controller.
It doesn't get any clearer than what I posted. I gave clock speeds and GPU equivalents.
So the Beyond3D and Neogaf forums are pegging it as a 4770 with an unspecified (for now) buffer. The CPU is just a juiced up, triple-core, over-clocked (1.5 GHz or thereabouts) version of the Wii processor. The memory bandwidth is a bottleneck across the board. One bright spot is the transfer rate of the storage medium, which is around 22 GB/s. Again, you can find further analysis and breakdowns leading to this conclusion on the web. The specs are pretty sad, all in all, but Nintendo is banki...
RO, Dokuro, D3, Silent Hill, Little King, Gravity Daze and P4G around the corner. I guess it depends upon your taste in games. For Japanophiles like me, I love the Vita library and Soul Sacrifice, God Eater 2 and PSO 2 are out early next year.
If you're into hugely Western franchises or genres, then yeah, the Vita doesn't offer much. I hope the system picks up, but at the same time, I'm fine with it being niche for the next while so that I keep getting more obscur...
I do love a good kitty-cat meme, I must admit.
The internet is a source of - primarily - two things:
- Porn.
- An endless font of faceless people who love to complain about things that they would never bother to raise issue with in real life, for fear of how ridiculous they would appear.
The Amazon reviews fall under the latter category, clearly.
I've never seen a trophy set that you couldn't platinum without DLC. MS' achievement system is different, but you can still have hundreds of games and achievements from all over the place and a respectable gamer score.
Market saturation perhaps. America is the 360's strongest territory, so they would hit the ceiling next after the Wii (which is no officially in decline there).