The WiiU version will clearly be better. Do the math.. Oh wait.
Xboner 720p for $249 is the sweet spot. It will have good games and I want KI but I only pay for what it's worth and the GPU is only worth $79 in the PC market for performance.
Remember it depends on your CPU. This may not be a big deal for rich people with crazy powerful CPU's but for poor folks like me it's HUGE! Also it may be a great way to get steam boxes cheaper even yet. they can slap in cheaper CPU's and cut cost while not losing any gaming performance, but it will take a while because it really needs to have lots of games running this API for that to happen.
Update! I just ran the Star Swarm benchmark on Dirext X11 and then in Mantel mode. Amazing results! in directX it almost came to a stop when it had thousands of ships on screen, but in Mantal it could not be phased! Anyway here are my offical results.
(DIRECTX11) Average FPS:27.49
Average Unit Count: 3857
(Mantle) Average FPS: 39.02
Average Unit Count: 4258
This is honestly a OMG poop my pants improvement. I feel like I got ...
I just got it. I have a A10 5800k CPU and a R9 270x GPU. HUGE difference for me because I know my CPU is a bottle neck. I'm almost at a solid 60FPS in bf4 on ultra with 4msaa.
was only in the low 30s before. Then BF4 crashed and said it had a directX error! WTF! Some bugs to iron out but I'm happy.
This adds another nail in the coffin to the people that say you need to buy a expensive PC to get PS4 level graphics or better because Mantel gets rid of the CPU b...
Also dreamcast sold 10.6 million units and WiiU is half that
How about Sega and nintendo and they call it the Dreamcube!
It's Jan so basically a years more wait. I'm not happy
So your a fan and saying he is very cool for smoking? Trying to make him acceptable. You make me sick -bubs
J/K
Why can't they just go back to basics. Drop the gimmicks and just make great games. The kind of games that take hard work like Super Metroid. No shortcuts just blood and sweat and sleepless night of making fantastic games and greatness will follow. It is tried and tested and proven to work. Everyone said that Sony was wasting money buying up so many exclusive 1st party company's and focusing on gamers only while MS and NIN went for the casual and gimmicks. What MS and NIN forget about...
Not Steam OS, just make it only for Steam/PC and no consoles if they want to boost sales.
You people don't think that maybe Sony people had a sit down meeting and came up with more than a few reasons to make this move? I'm sure armchair n4g news boys know more than Sony by putting 15 seconds of thought into this.
The HD version sucks and even makes it look worse. Now we can see RE4 in Hd and it really shows off how old the games pollys looking zoomed in HD... we need a REMAKE! Yes like Resdent evil 1 remake for gamecube. That was the best game ever remade. They did not change anything but added a few areas and a boss and made the game beautiful with better voice acting.
Where is my Mantel update?
Now everyone go buy a 780TI to show your respect. He was the marketing manager and this was his last great move.
bubs up for that epic link
nice
A shame that no one aborted you.
They need to get back to Metroid after that last disaster with Namco.
Full Mantel support on day 1 for my new AMD 270X and $44 on steam now for pre order. yes please!