I'm a former IBM employee and this vid brought nice warm fuzzy feelings to me. Love the Wii U and was bummed when Nintendo announced they'd be moving away from PowerPC architecture. Great video!!
@@borisfranjic4016 ibm sadly has gone down hill when they sold their manufacturing. If you wanna work for an innovative gaming hardware company its probably best to aim for AMD. (Or nvidia)
The Wii U was a console with an unfortunate lifeline all through the entirety of its release, from a confusion launch to a lack of physical power.... but damn was it fun to play games on.
@@patricioandres4237 If he were talking about emulators, both the Wii and GC would be Dolphin, the Wii U would be Cemu, and the Switch would probably be Yuzu because it's further along than Ryujinx. And maybe Mupen would be considered for N64
Having personally developed for this device, the Wii U is a really solid platform. As mentioned in the vid, the CPU CAN get underwhelmed if overtaxed, but from a graphical standpoint, even BotW doesn't fully tax the GPU. Running stress tests graphically, I achieved somewhere in-between a PS3 and PS4 level of graphical quality on various models, materials, and textures. The Wii U was honestly neglected for it's abysmal CPU and horrendous marketing. I just hope someone can fully realize the capabilities of this device in a tangible way since Nintendo has opened development for it and the 3DS. I am even finding out just how truly capable the 3DS is, as I am privately developing for personal testing a 3D remake of Pokemon Red, pulling assets from the official 3DS pokemon games themselves. I have already established a playable demo that simply lacks polishing (UI, Particle effects for attacks, SFX, basically minor things), but is already taxing an O3DS to the limit, while still allowing full 3D at all times unlike the official pokemon games. At the end of the day, limitations are just that: Limiting. This doesn't imply a device is incapable. Unfortunately, this video never really put the actual power of the Wii U into perspective, so I felt this comment was needed her from someone who has actually worked with the hardware on a more intimate level than simply playing a game. For those further interested, the Wii U was also the hardest device I have coded for. Documentation, even today, feels like it was slapped together from manufacturer notes, and many things are easily missed unless you extensively scour over the docs, while others are actually confusing, and down right a PITA to implement, especially input. This coupled with the weak CPU, I feel was the primary killer of 3rd party support.
I know your comment is 4 years old at this point, but I’m genuinely curious about your insight of the Wii U’s processor. I’m just an IT guy that dabbled in some intro to C++ and Java courses in college, so I’m fairly ignorant on the subject matter. I’m wondering if you have a decent gauge on how well the Wii U’s CPU stacks up with the Xbox 360’s CPU, because I’d imagine it’d be easier to compare the two of them together since they’re both tri-core processors, rather than the PS3’s CELL processor. Was the clock speed the biggest difference that separated the two, or were there more architectural deficiencies in areas like cache. I’m also wondering about your comment about the lack of decent documentation for the Wii U’s processor. Isn’t it, on a surface level, an overclocked Wii processor with three cores on the die? I know there’s a lot more to the hardware than just raw core count, but I would’ve guessed that devs could use the knowledge they had learned while developing Wii titles as a good starting point. I’m still taking your word for it when it comes to assessing the system’s capabilities, but I do find it disappointing to see that a system that released in 2012 has processor specs that are debatably weaker than a processor made for systems in 2005.
Hey when a game developer claims a game system is a PITA or a nightmare or anything or claims a CPU is "weak" then we are entitled to know who the game developers are, what companies and what games... Because this is fairly common diatribe from shitty game devs that only care about exploiting gimmicks and have nothing original or spectacular to back it up with... Some of these 3rd party whiny devs cannot be trusted either for they will make a game that gets the attention of the hardcore but not the significant sales and then their next game turns into some shit fest kiddie toddler babysitting game instead of something worthy of being an actual videogame software made for a traditional videogame system.
The major publishers stopped making Wii U games very fast, but for some reason that I don't fully understand the indies really embraced it. A lot of indie games that debuted on Steam made their way to the eShop.
zack egg , the gamecube is alright but i noticed some censorship when i played it. on tony hawk you cant punch people with your board. thats just stupid and this mentality is limiting 3rd party developers. overall i think the gamecube is alright , but im happy my parents bought me the ps2 back in the day
He's never made anything off this channel... Thats the point. Thats why he can play all the copyrighted music. He has the freedom to do whatever he wants. But he has a job, and quite possibly a life. That's why he doesn't release a lot. He does release quality.
the console. instead of developing for all platforms, nintendo develops their games for their own weak machines to juice money. It's not bad on it's face; until they cut so many corners that "current-gen games" can barely run even on the only proprietary hardware they were designed for.
Yeah, but isn't a console that will be perfect for exit outside home, the screen isn't visible under the sun or in other outside places so isn't so portable is more play in your house or in places that aren't open to the outside
Saying "laptop" like it somehow is equivalent to "underpowered" doesn't really mean anything. My laptop sure as hell can't run games like this, but then again I can shell out tens of thousands of dollars to get a laptop build that's as powerful as a gaming PC. Laptops vary drastically in power so the point is lost.
Kind of off-topic but I love the way you clearly credit other videos you used by putting plenty of details about it in the bottom-left corner. Too many other channels (mostly those generic Watchmojo wannabes like TGN, gameranx, etc) just use footage as they see fit, don't credit other TH-camrs, and even go so far as to *_plagiarize_* videos, down to the footage, order, and even dialogue (I can go more in-depth if any of you want to know what video I'm talking about) Major respect man, you just earned yourself another subscriber
The chip names are genius. The Wii U's code name is the Cafe ‘Espresso’ ‘Latte’ *Genius* (Codenames are the consoles internal name. We know the Wii U was codenamed cafe, the wii was revolution and everyone knows that the gamecube was known as dolphin)
+Muhammad saws war pädophil na und? The Vita flopped because it was *too* powerful. Developing for the Vita with its relatively good graphics was more expensive than developing for the 3DS, and less profitable than developing for home consoles. Developers weren't willing to risk large amounts of money developing $40-priced games for a system with few owners. Then of course it fell into the spiral we've seen many times before: with no games people don't buy the Vita, and with no Vita owners devs don't make games. The Vita itself is great, but as Nintendo has proven more than once, software sells hardware, not just specs.
Even though it was a commercial failure because it was dropped pretty much instantly by the major publishers, it's still worth owning one for those Nintendo-made games. Although the fact that it's 100% hardware compatible with the original Wii somewhat alleviated the problem for me. I didn't own a Wii before getting a Wii U, and was delighted to finally play some titles that I had previously missed.
Also the Wii U is capable of natively running Gamecube games (not emulating), but they never implemented it. You can homebrew the vWii and play Gamecube .iso's from there.
I was in the same boat as you. I missed Wii titles during 7th gen so when I decided to buy the Wii U, I went back and played a bunch of them along with Wii U games. Kept me busy all through the 8th gen borefest..
yup, great for us who had it and thanks to it having failed we have a better Nintendo today. Love the Wii U, but I also love how it "fathered" the Switch.
Actually, I think Nintendo made too many mistakes with the system: 1. The GPU was too slow for the current standards, they should've aimed higher on that respect. 2. Too little and too slow RAM. 3. The lack of a native hard drive solution was a bummer. Even if flash memory is fast as it is, 32 gb wasn't that great even in 2012 when the console first launched. 4. The netcode was hit and miss. 5. Aaaaaaaaaaandd... the gamepad. It's great, don't get me wrong, but it made the console a lot more expensive than it should have been. If Nintendo were able to sell the thing for 199 usd and probably 150 nowadays, the thing would have sold like hotcakes, it was it's natural price point in my opinion. The gamepad should have been sold separately and they should have enforced the existence of an ecosystem with the 3ds family, there you had your extra screen for everyone on the room, with the option of the fully fledged wii u tablet thing. It's a shame things went the way they did, I cherish my Wii U, it's a great system, certainly a lot more interesting than both the xbox juan and the ps4. It was the last true console.
javierortiz82 the main issue was the lack of software from Nintendo. It had a drought that wasn't helped by its form factor, CPU, and naming. Seriously, it's their version of the Saturn.
It was so underrated because Nintendo made it look like gamepad add-on for the Wii with a confusing name and poor advertising/marketing. The Wii U was great if you had it in the early years, but since there is absolutely no AAA third party support anymore, it's useless now. I still have mine to play exclusives and Virtual Console games.
Thing is, Nintendo didn't really say what it was, there was never any advertising for it. Hell I only know that it isn't an add on from looking into it. Don't be so quick to call people dumb.
WCBROW01 nah, it was because of the gamepad. If they had gone with a more traditional console with a traditional controller it wouldn't have been underpowered.
the gamepad is basically nintendo's version of the kinect, and also terrible marketing failed the wii u, right now the switch is basically what the wii u should have been
As a gamer with a balling gaming PC that can put a PS4 and XBone to shame, I will say that Nintendo knows how to play to the strengths (and play around the weaknesses) of their consoles. When the "big two" are just trying to be cheap, cut-down PCs, there's rarely a reason to go for them. But Nintendo always stands out from the crowd and offers games and experiences that you just won't get on the PC. PC Gamers understand that consoles will never win the arms race of pure power against a PC. But Nintendo fully accepts this and doesn't try to compete in the same space. And they deliver some truly remarkable titles while doing so (surprised you didn't show off any Smash Bros here). So yeah, while my gaming PC may cost twice as much as a PS4 and Xbone put together (twice), the latest Nintendo platform always adds something to the mix that the other consoles just can't match.
Nintendo has some pretty good games and tricks us into paying them more by only developing for a proprietary and cheap console that will just manage to run them.
Andrew KVK You, sir, are right! ... Not that I complain, isn't that the whole point of console exclusives? I mean, most PCs could run those games but you don't see Halo or Kingdom Hearts on PC only to give consoles a marketing edge the companies paid for, when in reality the console is overpriced for the hardware it boasts and your PC would have so much more added value for the same price
I find the hardware race a bit tiresome these days. It had more relevance when the biggest limiting factor for games was specs. New generations would allow for new genres, but now, the hardware race is largely a pissing contest. Ingenuity is so much more important, which is why I care more about the people who make the games rather than the spec sheets. To their credit, Nintendo has some of the most talented individuals in gaming.
I know this comment will never see the sunlight under this sea of comments, but if anyone wonders what the song is from the 3D inside of the wiiU thingy is... welp it's Gold Mines - Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge. kthanksbye
Are you calling a 3.6MHz SNES more powerful than a 7.6MHz Genesis? SuperFX existed to give the SNES fucking life support because it was just not fast enough on the CPU side.
SNES was the second weakest of its generation actually. It was only stronger than the PC-Engine. SNES had a lot of memory bottlenecks which hindered sound quality, resolution, amount of colors on screen, amount of sprites on screen. Stuff like that. The CPU on top of being pretty bad as it's the same as the NES' CPU but just a 16-bit variant, it was still slower than the Master System's CPU. Hell the Genesis could play more sounds at once than the SNES and the audio isn't crunched on the system due to having enough memory for the sound hardware, THe only good or strong thign about the SNES is that had a genuine VPU and not a video controller tied to the CPU like older systems before it. Case in point... the SNES would shit itself trying to run Sonic the Hedgehog.
Nintendo was always in between two generations. Many people actually consider Wii to be Gen 6.5, and the Wii U Gen 7.5.(FYI PS3 is Gen 7 and PS4 is Gen 8)
In the right hands, it’s powerful. It probably has more potential than what’s here now. We need more 1st class HomeBrew that pushes the limits of what its capable of. With great power, comes great games
Didn't you watch the video? The CPU is a slow turd, there's not much you can do about it, if they hadn't pushed the touchpad controller gimmick so hard, they would've had enough budget for a better CPU. That useless touchpad controller is responsible for the downfall of the whole system.
Musix_Match im not saying YOU are getting paid. Just simply saying anyone can get paid, even if it's a few cents due to low views without needing 1M subs
I don't know about everyone else, but I never once had performance issues or frame drops on my Wii u, all my games ran buttery smooth. I also really don't think it's fair to showcase the Wii U's most recent, most demanding title as the showing for its poor power, especially since that title, Breath of the Wild, didn't exist for a huge portion of its lifetime.
So we shouldn't show games like the last of us / God of war ascension / granturismo 6 / ratchet and clank into the nexus despite showing the best the ps3 can do cause they came out in the last days of the ps3 ?
solid 6/10 For some people it does. I own a Switch, but obviously not all of 13-14 million people who bought a Wii U have a Switch yet. Also, while the Switch version is superior, the Wii U one is nearly identical. Remember BotW was developed from the ground up for the Wii U and then ported over to the Switch late in development. It was basically The Twilight Princess situation on the Gamecube and Wii all over again.
Great video mate. I subscribed to your channel a while ago. I owned a lot of consoles in my lifetime, including Atari, Sega, PlayStation, Xbox, even some old Philips cartridge consoles and off course Nintendo systems. I'm a fan of Nintendo and their games, but I never bought a Wii U. I've played from a friend a couple of times, and I was impressed by the graphical performance of the Wii U. Nintendo knows how to make efficient 1st party with hardware limitations. The time I've played on the Wii U was back in 2014. I was aware that PlayStation 4 & Xbox One were much powerful. Beside that, I've enjoyed games like Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, Zelda Wind Waker HD, and a couple other games. Sadly enough Wii U lacks 3rd party support thanks to the underpowered CPU. In 2016 I bought a PlayStation 4 and at the moment playing a lot of Breath Of The Wild on the Switch. Both are lovely systems with their own games and features. Blu ray movies on PS4 as an example. I don't mind what console people are playing, they all have their own games. And a gamer wants to play all of the great games available. I'm looking forward to Super Mario Odyssey and Metroid Prime 4 for the Switch and God Of War and Gran Turismo Sport for the PlayStation 4. Also considering of buying a Xbox One in the near future. They have also some great games I love from the Xbox consoles like Gears of War , Halo and Forza as examples. Furthermore, keep up the good work. I always enjoy watching your video's. Friendly regards, Emiel
Emiel333 Official True gamers always recognize every developers and console companies' quality. I'm a PS4 and Wii U owner too. As much as I love Zelda Botw, Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon, I also love Uncharted, GOW, Shadow of the Colossus or Horizon Zero Dawn from the PS4. I now want to get a new graphic card (I'll probably wait for the new gen) to play multiplayer games, like Battlefield, Rocket League and Assetto Corsa with a wheel. And I'd have had a Xbox One too, as I had a 360 last gen and I absolutely loved it. The Switch is still not worth it for me as a Wii U owner, but it will get interesting for sure in the future. Anyways, they're both out of the budget if I want to finish the PC. At the end of the day our only problems are money and time! As we've got other oblies and hobbies too. Cheers from Spain.
Nintendo should have tried to make a slim version of the wiiu that is smaller in size so that it can be more easily portablized. The current wiiu is large to be carried and even with old tech it still takes a lot of power and overheats which is a problem, but I like that tablet controller on it.
I have a keybind directly set up to take me to your YT channel. I always watch this at 6:00 AM after walking the dog and watching the airplanes takeoff at the airport.
I love at 11:03 near the end of the video the Wii U is thug life AF!! just casually sitting there with a lighter to the side and a spliff burning away in the disc drive!! lol classic!
It seemed like the start of a new trend for lackluster CPU's, because even the Xbox One and PS4 had CPU's that weren't quite up to par with the standard, i kept hearing, but the GPU's were very good and decent.
I'm making a joke about how the wii u died... I never said it was bad, but in my opinion the switch is better, mainly because it feels less tacky and actually does what it says on the tin, as well as being able to actually run breath of the wild.
Fun fact: The Wii U's CPU was so absurdly bad, both Nintendo and third parties have consistently gotten dramatically better performance out of the Switch's quad A57 chips, which themselves are underclocked compared to the Shield TV device that shares the Switch's SoC at 1Ghz. 4 1Ghz ARM chips annihilate the Wii U's 3 1.24 Ghz PowerPC chips.
Sorry but Xenoblade X showed every strength of the Wii U in the best ways possible. That game was a technical master peice that still no other console can properly emulate (not even a 1080ti and Ryzen 2700x). To not include it is strange.
The crazy part is, not only did they not say much about the GPU, but the same was true in the developer kits, leaving third party devs to try to figure out what was in it by themselves. I'm still not entirely satisfied with how much information we were able to glean from the die shot, it looks like a paltry 160 shaders and 172Gflops. Now that the platform is dead, I wish Nintendo would just lift all the technical NDAs.
@Walther Penne The processor is capable of low latency, but that also limits its top end throughput. It didn't even have modern SIMD, apart from paired singles. It was just a poorly designed console for the future where the 8th gen twins were just around the corner from its launch.
@Walther Penne You know we've also had ray tracing proof of concepts on CPU running at least as far back as the N64, right. The question is how much you can do and how useful that is vs the resources you've consumed. Let me know the title of this next gen game you're releasing on Wii U with accomplishments the entire industry including Nintendo missed except some random guy on youtube comments, I'd like to check it out as a programmer nearing a decade in the field.
@Walther Penne Wait, this is you isn't it, it's the other reference to Total Destruction 2025 I found. How many of these projects from 5 years ago panned out? Do you just enjoy saying a lot of words with no output to back it up? Why were you banned? "- I plan to port the famous "Bioshock" 1, 2 & 3! As well as Portal 1 & 2 if possible! Those are 5 big games and 5 big projects that alone will take at least 1 year to make them working! - GTA IV will also be one of my bigger projects - I plan on using "Bayonetta 2" (WiiU-Version) and recompile it for running on PPC instead! So that will fix the variable framerate and make a perfect 60 fps out of it! - I also plan to port famous Crysis 1,2 and 3 if possible to WiiU! - I plan to port/Recompile Battlefield 3/4 for WiiU (and 1,2 if possible, but no guarantee for these)" gbatemp.net/threads/planning-on-making-ports-and-some-other-good-stuff-for-wiiu.487316/
Why did the Wii U Fail so badly? I thought it was cool, having the dual screens like that, and being able to play most of your games while someone can watch TV.
Walther Penne a) shooters shouldn't be what sells a console b) $300 plus games and controllers is nothing compared to PS4's $400 plus many $40+ games as well as PS Plus membership and Xbox's $500 and many $40+ games and paid DLC. c) exactly
The PS3’s CPU was the equivalent of a super computer processor at this point. But harnessing it’s power was extremely difficult, and it required tons of trial and effort to get desired results. Late games of the PS3 demonstrate the true power of Cell, that even the Xbox 360’s Xenon CPU couldn’t match.
Crazy to think that I bought a Wii u over a ps4 in early 2014 and haven't looked back. I still don't own a ps4 and prolly never will. I loved my ps3 but the ps4 didn't really interest me for some reason. Think I just got tired of it. I wanted to see what Nintendo was up to so I "switched" lol. Probably one of my favorite systems next to the Sega Genesis. Going to buy me a Nintendo switch this holiday season!
The Wii U game pad was honestly one of the biggest reasons why it failed and that's ironic because the game pad was supposed to be the key selling point. Devs never really took full advantage of the game pad. It was bulky to hold and not many games were made for it. Third party support was really lacking. Even one of the exclusive third party games for the Wii U, Zombi U, was really an average game at best.
You're acutally right here's the flaws 1. Not selling separate 2. Not many games took avantage of it. 3. Was expensive should have been 80$ at least 4. Was bulky behind it should have removed the two bumps behind 5. Could have upgraded the battery life up to 20 hours at least 6. Should have had 780p instead of 480p
Bigblujay 97 It was just another zombie game. Even as a zombie game, dying light was way better. ZombiU had a graphics downgrade if you look at the trailers and compare it to the actual game.
Untuned Watching it doesn't help. You can click the three little dots, then press "I am not interested" and when the video disappears click on "Tell us why" and select "I am not interested in this channel".
I'm a former IBM employee and this vid brought nice warm fuzzy feelings to me. Love the Wii U and was bummed when Nintendo announced they'd be moving away from PowerPC architecture. Great video!!
can you tell me how is it to work there.What were you doin ,was the technology ahead of time but was never published?
@Walther Penne wrong.... IBM just created something groundbreaking. Go look it up.
Lol dude deleted his comment after looking up their new invention 🤣
@@borisfranjic4016 ibm sadly has gone down hill when they sold their manufacturing. If you wanna work for an innovative gaming hardware company its probably best to aim for AMD. (Or nvidia)
@@OldscaleAt least the Power PC ISA is open source. I'd rather use it than Risc V
The Wii U was a console with an unfortunate lifeline all through the entirety of its release, from a confusion launch to a lack of physical power.... but damn was it fun to play games on.
Budget-Builds Official do people like you have to keep making comments like this about the wii u? we already fucking know why it failed
Just thought it would be informative, This was a great video none the less
Dex... he was only making a point, in case some people didn't know
Vladmir Ibroncavich meh.
Dex: Great Justification....
Wii U is one of the greatest and cheapest options for high class budget gaming.
Who tf are you
@@Regalhound who are you?
@@Regalhound you don't know proto?
@@Regalhound get ignored
Was one
So powerful that it can destroy friendships.
Scrub So true...
You sure you didn't mean uno?
Anthony Seboe *Mario party
So powerful that it's let you die a virgin.
ill Eagle bruh
These chip names are making me realize why the Wii U was revealed as Project Cafe
Whiffy5
And the Switch's Tegra has NX on it.
They named the chips too lol, everything was themed around the idea of making a console ideal for coffee tables.
+Nicholas NRG I'd say it pretty wwell succeeded.
@Walther Penne Wii U CPU was clocked at 3×1,24 ghz= 3,7 ghz.
PS3 CPU was only 3,2 ghz.
what was underpowered then?
Wii U GPU power also Above Xbox 360 with 4x Ram (2gb)
-N64: Project Reality
-GameCube: project dolphin
-Wii: project revolution
-Wii U: project Cafe
-Switch: NX.
Technically the N64's code name was "Project Reality"
@@MaxonerousX He is talking about emulators...
@@patricioandres4237 No, he's not. The working title of the consoles were those
@@patricioandres4237 If he were talking about emulators, both the Wii and GC would be Dolphin, the Wii U would be Cemu, and the Switch would probably be Yuzu because it's further along than Ryujinx. And maybe Mupen would be considered for N64
@@MaxonerousX mupen sucks
Wii U
- Great console
- Great games
- Awful marketing
- Extremely underrated
- I LOVE THE WII U :)
Don't forget about rushed release
Wii U
- Fu*king underpowered
- good first party
- who cares about 3-rd party?
- Even worse firmwere
A budget smartphone can crank out better graphics than this piece of shit, fucking rip Nintendo
James Beaupry My smartphone only outputs 480P graphics, last I checked, Wii U can do atleast 720P..
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-lack of third party support..
However Wii U is an amazing Nintendo Hd console.
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Mario really enjoys the ride, great view...
Ziv Shemesh Great ride
Overused joke
Wow lul ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Cmon Nintendo
Ziv Shemesh good, I'm not the only one who has a dirty mind lol
The Wii U is highly underrated. Playing on my switch I sometimes stop and appreciate that many of these games are just Wii U ports or run similarly
The wii u had a really charming UI
Facts
Breath of the wild looks and rus better on the U.
@@yearight5303 it does neither the performance is worse and so is the audio quality and the switch runs at higher resolution
@@supersonic_shed4817 okay switch wojak
Having personally developed for this device, the Wii U is a really solid platform.
As mentioned in the vid, the CPU CAN get underwhelmed if overtaxed, but from a graphical standpoint, even BotW doesn't fully tax the GPU. Running stress tests graphically, I achieved somewhere in-between a PS3 and PS4 level of graphical quality on various models, materials, and textures.
The Wii U was honestly neglected for it's abysmal CPU and horrendous marketing. I just hope someone can fully realize the capabilities of this device in a tangible way since Nintendo has opened development for it and the 3DS.
I am even finding out just how truly capable the 3DS is, as I am privately developing for personal testing a 3D remake of Pokemon Red, pulling assets from the official 3DS pokemon games themselves. I have already established a playable demo that simply lacks polishing (UI, Particle effects for attacks, SFX, basically minor things), but is already taxing an O3DS to the limit, while still allowing full 3D at all times unlike the official pokemon games.
At the end of the day, limitations are just that: Limiting. This doesn't imply a device is incapable. Unfortunately, this video never really put the actual power of the Wii U into perspective, so I felt this comment was needed her from someone who has actually worked with the hardware on a more intimate level than simply playing a game.
For those further interested, the Wii U was also the hardest device I have coded for. Documentation, even today, feels like it was slapped together from manufacturer notes, and many things are easily missed unless you extensively scour over the docs, while others are actually confusing, and down right a PITA to implement, especially input. This coupled with the weak CPU, I feel was the primary killer of 3rd party support.
I know your comment is 4 years old at this point, but I’m genuinely curious about your insight of the Wii U’s processor. I’m just an IT guy that dabbled in some intro to C++ and Java courses in college, so I’m fairly ignorant on the subject matter.
I’m wondering if you have a decent gauge on how well the Wii U’s CPU stacks up with the Xbox 360’s CPU, because I’d imagine it’d be easier to compare the two of them together since they’re both tri-core processors, rather than the PS3’s CELL processor. Was the clock speed the biggest difference that separated the two, or were there more architectural deficiencies in areas like cache.
I’m also wondering about your comment about the lack of decent documentation for the Wii U’s processor. Isn’t it, on a surface level, an overclocked Wii processor with three cores on the die? I know there’s a lot more to the hardware than just raw core count, but I would’ve guessed that devs could use the knowledge they had learned while developing Wii titles as a good starting point. I’m still taking your word for it when it comes to assessing the system’s capabilities, but I do find it disappointing to see that a system that released in 2012 has processor specs that are debatably weaker than a processor made for systems in 2005.
Heyyy do you know about any other good videos that talk about the whole architecture of the Wii U?
Hey when a game developer claims a game system is a PITA or a nightmare or anything or claims a CPU is "weak" then we are entitled to know who the game developers are, what companies and what games...
Because this is fairly common diatribe from shitty game devs that only care about exploiting gimmicks and have nothing original or spectacular to back it up with...
Some of these 3rd party whiny devs cannot be trusted either for they will make a game that gets the attention of the hardcore but not the significant sales and then their next game turns into some shit fest kiddie toddler babysitting game instead of something worthy of being an actual videogame software made for a traditional videogame system.
Hm
You helped develop my childhood.
Nintendo- scaring away 3rd party developers since 1996
Sad but true
3ds Masterrace Minus the GameCube?
The major publishers stopped making Wii U games very fast, but for some reason that I don't fully understand the indies really embraced it. A lot of indie games that debuted on Steam made their way to the eShop.
zack egg , the gamecube is alright but i noticed some censorship when i played it. on tony hawk you cant punch people with your board. thats just stupid and this mentality is limiting 3rd party developers. overall i think the gamecube is alright , but im happy my parents bought me the ps2 back in the day
maybe because the big budget games cant get a port because of the slow cpu :/
look to the left and see the sims "hot date" game
thattylerguy same
ive been waiting for ur videos ma boii
same
He's never made anything off this channel... Thats the point. Thats why he can play all the copyrighted music. He has the freedom to do whatever he wants. But he has a job, and quite possibly a life. That's why he doesn't release a lot. He does release quality.
and also really good editing takes a long time to render and edit.
Wii U may not be powerful, but it supports the beautiful cartoony graphics that Nintendo puts out. It's great the way it is.
which is great until said user wants to try third party titles.
Nintendo's first party games are great enough as they are.
Should they be charging you an extra $300 to play them though?
Extra $300 on what?
the console. instead of developing for all platforms, nintendo develops their games for their own weak machines to juice money. It's not bad on it's face; until they cut so many corners that "current-gen games" can barely run even on the only proprietary hardware they were designed for.
How powerful is the Switch!
Walther Penne literally nothing you said is true
lmao!
Walther Penne Nintendo said switch isn't so portable and classified it as non-portable
i mean that in fact
Yeah, but isn't a console that will be perfect for exit outside home, the screen isn't visible under the sun or in other outside places so isn't so portable is more play in your house or in places that aren't open to the outside
havent watched any of your videos since 2015 and holy shit th e quality has improved, im going on a video marathon
oh lemme get my cup of thea at 11 pm I'm sure my family will appreciate it
Ian Witten in Australia its 7:20 at the moment
Ian Witten it's actually 7:24
Haha it's 1 a.m here
4:00 pm here
Tell them GHG just uploaded a new video, they should understand.
I'm amazed that Pikmin 3 can run on that CPU... Calculating the movements and AI of 100 individual entities 60 times per second sounds intensive.
@Fartimations gamecube came out in 2001 wtf
It’s a 30fps game
@@memoryman3586 welcome to the real world
The game is 30fps
I'm sorry. I don't speak Minecraft enchantment table
I have to give it credit, these games look great for what is the equivalent of a 2 GB laptop with integrated graphics.
Did you watch the video? GPU is much better than integrated gpu, unless you mean an APU.
a modern APU is much more powerful, so thats likely what was meant.
Saying "laptop" like it somehow is equivalent to "underpowered" doesn't really mean anything. My laptop sure as hell can't run games like this, but then again I can shell out tens of thousands of dollars to get a laptop build that's as powerful as a gaming PC. Laptops vary drastically in power so the point is lost.
even modern intel hd graphics match up, or exceed in performance to the old radeons. it's really software and os that make the wii u so impressive.
Ahhh I love console peasants😎
Kind of off-topic but I love the way you clearly credit other videos you used by putting plenty of details about it in the bottom-left corner. Too many other channels (mostly those generic Watchmojo wannabes like TGN, gameranx, etc) just use footage as they see fit, don't credit other TH-camrs, and even go so far as to *_plagiarize_* videos, down to the footage, order, and even dialogue (I can go more in-depth if any of you want to know what video I'm talking about)
Major respect man, you just earned yourself another subscriber
yeah it's nice when credit is given to all sources or as many as you can obtain.
As a console-gamer : woow how smooth
As a Pc gamer : eww 30 fps
NGL I feel like console 30 fps is just different, as I am both a console and PC gamer.
@@droson8712 Your going to both heaven and hell
@@Kev360-r4t lmao
@@droson8712 games like Smash and Super Mario 3D world were in a full 60fps at 1080p
@@forget6917 no its not 1080p. The wii u only shows 720p
Also GHG loving your Sony PVM, I always wanted one of those little beasts, but missed my chance to pick one up
Budget-Builds Official Hey! It's you.
"Smash with 64 people on screen"
double, or nothing
wait no
Walther Penne,just keep in mind the wii is ACTUALLY underpowered,just look at them sega saturn grade textures!
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
The chip names are genius.
The Wii U's code name is the Cafe
‘Espresso’
‘Latte’
*Genius*
(Codenames are the consoles internal name. We know the Wii U was codenamed cafe, the wii was revolution and everyone knows that the gamecube was known as dolphin)
The 3ds was Citrus and the Wii was Revolution. DS was Nitro
Ehh, that's not right.
The Wii's CPU was called 'Broadway' and its AMD GPU was called 'Hollywood'.
I'm talking codenames, like how the Switch was NX
and the hack is mocha.
those names are genius.
Sonicrunn3r gc's GPU was literally caked flipper, referencing dolphin
No wonder this was the only console most of the members of the PC Master Race agreed to be worth buying.
DJ So SHEARS muscle growth comic 6
DJ Soru SHEARS muscle growth comic 6
Yes, because of its exclusives. If games like BOTW were legitimately (not CEMU) on PC, then no one would really have a Wii U, other than younger kids.
I wish Nintendo would release their shit on pc because 4k60fps and modding nut that will never happen
Dude Lmao its on pc though
Wii u and Vita were both underrated
+Muhammad saws war pädophil na und? the Vita was underpowered? ok
+Muhammad saws war pädophil na und? The Vita flopped because it was *too* powerful. Developing for the Vita with its relatively good graphics was more expensive than developing for the 3DS, and less profitable than developing for home consoles. Developers weren't willing to risk large amounts of money developing $40-priced games for a system with few owners. Then of course it fell into the spiral we've seen many times before: with no games people don't buy the Vita, and with no Vita owners devs don't make games. The Vita itself is great, but as Nintendo has proven more than once, software sells hardware, not just specs.
mpforeverunlimited Vita is probably more powerful than the Ambulance console
I said underrated not underpowered?
Henny Z Yeah,no,the Wii U is more powerful than the Vita
"So sit back,relax, grab a cup of tea or a beer if thats more of your thing and come along for the ride" never gets old
Wii U is good enough to run great games, that's the only thing that matter
well sure, but isn't that kinda redundant, I mean, so is the NES
Wii U is a piece of shit
Chris youre a piece of shit
Alfred seniggah Good comeback.
Come back to me when you come up with something more original.
Unidentified creature Stop calling everyone a Lesbian, You don’t even know our Genders you Dipso
Even though it was a commercial failure because it was dropped pretty much instantly by the major publishers, it's still worth owning one for those Nintendo-made games. Although the fact that it's 100% hardware compatible with the original Wii somewhat alleviated the problem for me. I didn't own a Wii before getting a Wii U, and was delighted to finally play some titles that I had previously missed.
Definitely :)
People seem to forget all the exclusive games on the wii.
I completed Zack and Wiki last month, and started The Last Story this week :)
Also the Wii U is capable of natively running Gamecube games (not emulating), but they never implemented it. You can homebrew the vWii and play Gamecube .iso's from there.
I was in the same boat as you. I missed Wii titles during 7th gen so when I decided to buy the Wii U, I went back and played a bunch of them along with Wii U games. Kept me busy all through the 8th gen borefest..
I'll sub to that, good vid mate.
I always love how these videos feel more like a home movie series rather than a TH-cam video
I still love the Wii U for its UI and games and dont care that it failed as hard as it did. IMO its still a great console.
The Timelords I agree
yup, great for us who had it and thanks to it having failed we have a better Nintendo today.
Love the Wii U, but I also love how it "fathered" the Switch.
The Timelords SOMEONE CALL THE AMBALAM WII U WII U WII U WII U
The Timelords if you like it for the ga,es ere is a wii u emulator on pc
Me too :D
Actually, I think Nintendo made too many mistakes with the system:
1. The GPU was too slow for the current standards, they should've aimed higher on that respect.
2. Too little and too slow RAM.
3. The lack of a native hard drive solution was a bummer. Even if flash memory is fast as it is, 32 gb wasn't that great even in 2012 when the console first launched.
4. The netcode was hit and miss.
5. Aaaaaaaaaaandd... the gamepad. It's great, don't get me wrong, but it made the console a lot more expensive than it should have been. If Nintendo were able to sell the thing for 199 usd and probably 150 nowadays, the thing would have sold like hotcakes, it was it's natural price point in my opinion. The gamepad should have been sold separately and they should have enforced the existence of an ecosystem with the 3ds family, there you had your extra screen for everyone on the room, with the option of the fully fledged wii u tablet thing.
It's a shame things went the way they did, I cherish my Wii U, it's a great system, certainly a lot more interesting than both the xbox juan and the ps4. It was the last true console.
LaL
well said man
javierortiz82 the main issue was the lack of software from Nintendo. It had a drought that wasn't helped by its form factor, CPU, and naming. Seriously, it's their version of the Saturn.
Xbox Juan... Kill me please
@@tmpmisterix1479 probably he got jinxed by auto correct lol
Ironically the Switch often runs at 30fps while most Wii u games target 60.
Shoulda showed some bayonetta 2. Probably the most impressive game on the Wii U
You mean the port from Xbox 360 that ran at 720p with absolutely no framerate consistency, lackluster texture filtering and no antialiasing?
lol
360 couldn't do Bayonetta 2.
Metaldude X I think the most impressive game to me was xenoblade chronicles X. I couldn't believe that it was running on a Wii u.
TheMrIron2 I didn't know Xbox 360 had Bayonetta 2, a wii u exclusive ヽ(ヅ)ノ
Really nice video. I love the 3d models that show the internals of the console. Great work!
It was so underrated because Nintendo made it look like gamepad add-on for the Wii with a confusing name and poor advertising/marketing. The Wii U was great if you had it in the early years, but since there is absolutely no AAA third party support anymore, it's useless now. I still have mine to play exclusives and Virtual Console games.
RALPHY88 I will forever be bitter about transferring over my Wii data to the Wii U.
+Mr Bubble I liked watching the transfer though. It was pretty cool.
Thing is, Nintendo didn't really say what it was, there was never any advertising for it. Hell I only know that it isn't an add on from looking into it. Don't be so quick to call people dumb.
Adam They called it a new console when they revealed it. People ARE dumb.
Roderic Kingfield I agree, anyone who was not unsure what it was, is a moron. That or they live in a hole in the ground.
It had potential. Nintendo just cheaped out on the CPU.
WCBROW01 nah, it was because of the gamepad. If they had gone with a more traditional console with a traditional controller it wouldn't have been underpowered.
the gamepad is basically nintendo's version of the kinect, and also terrible marketing failed the wii u, right now the switch is basically what the wii u should have been
Pavlin Todorov Wii U is what Wii should've been and Switch is what Wii U should've been. Nintendo has always had the most powerful console until Wii
yes but the wii outsold both xbox 360 and ps3 by 16 million, the wii u would have costed like $900 if it was released around 2005-2006
Pavlin Todorov how is a console on par with PS3/360 gonna cost 900 dollars?
I never knew the Wii U was knows for butter smooth HD graphics.
Lol yep
It's been 84 years...
As a gamer with a balling gaming PC that can put a PS4 and XBone to shame, I will say that Nintendo knows how to play to the strengths (and play around the weaknesses) of their consoles.
When the "big two" are just trying to be cheap, cut-down PCs, there's rarely a reason to go for them. But Nintendo always stands out from the crowd and offers games and experiences that you just won't get on the PC.
PC Gamers understand that consoles will never win the arms race of pure power against a PC. But Nintendo fully accepts this and doesn't try to compete in the same space. And they deliver some truly remarkable titles while doing so (surprised you didn't show off any Smash Bros here).
So yeah, while my gaming PC may cost twice as much as a PS4 and Xbone put together (twice), the latest Nintendo platform always adds something to the mix that the other consoles just can't match.
PrimeSonicYT conclusion:
pc master race
ligh i take it that entire paragraph went right over your head, good job
Nintendo has some pretty good games and tricks us into paying them more by only developing for a proprietary and cheap console that will just manage to run them.
Andrew KVK You, sir, are right!
... Not that I complain, isn't that the whole point of console exclusives? I mean, most PCs could run those games but you don't see Halo or Kingdom Hearts on PC only to give consoles a marketing edge the companies paid for, when in reality the console is overpriced for the hardware it boasts and your PC would have so much more added value for the same price
I find the hardware race a bit tiresome these days. It had more relevance when the biggest limiting factor for games was specs. New generations would allow for new genres, but now, the hardware race is largely a pissing contest. Ingenuity is so much more important, which is why I care more about the people who make the games rather than the spec sheets. To their credit, Nintendo has some of the most talented individuals in gaming.
I've got my cuppa and beer, but there's no more content
stoped a netflix binge for this. love your vids!
YOU WUT??????
#WWEThemes he stopped watching shit for a good video
Furorusukki ツ yeah the walking dead is pretty shit.
Glenn dies
Jamoi woah really it's not like i have already seen it and decided to rewatch it.
9:25 Mario must be enjoying himself
I know this comment will never see the sunlight under this sea of comments, but if anyone wonders what the song is from the 3D inside of the wiiU thingy is... welp it's Gold Mines - Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge.
kthanksbye
Lolz
Manueljlin thanks dude i was wondering where that was from. I thought it was a remix of haunted ship from sonic rush adventures
The problem is it was nitendos next gen... it wasn't suppose to compete with the PS3 and Xbox 360 it was suppose to compete with the PS4 and Xbox1
To be fair, the Super NES was more powerful than Genesis.
Are you calling a 3.6MHz SNES more powerful than a 7.6MHz Genesis? SuperFX existed to give the SNES fucking life support because it was just not fast enough on the CPU side.
Extra Deluxe yea does it have *BLAST PROCESSING*
SNES was the second weakest of its generation actually. It was only stronger than the PC-Engine. SNES had a lot of memory bottlenecks which hindered sound quality, resolution, amount of colors on screen, amount of sprites on screen. Stuff like that. The CPU on top of being pretty bad as it's the same as the NES' CPU but just a 16-bit variant, it was still slower than the Master System's CPU. Hell the Genesis could play more sounds at once than the SNES and the audio isn't crunched on the system due to having enough memory for the sound hardware, THe only good or strong thign about the SNES is that had a genuine VPU and not a video controller tied to the CPU like older systems before it.
Case in point... the SNES would shit itself trying to run Sonic the Hedgehog.
Nintendo was always in between two generations. Many people actually consider Wii to be Gen 6.5, and the Wii U Gen 7.5.(FYI PS3 is Gen 7 and PS4 is Gen 8)
Great episode. Wii U had so much potential.
Yep…
It was already proved it was powerful when I was younger. Because it runs a frickin Batman Arkham game pretty well
The use of 3D models is awesome dude, keep up that trend!
Mario is totally looking up Peache's dress at 9:23
CJ who wouldnt?
Give the poor man some slack. He constantly risked his life for 30 years (as when the game was released) and only got cakes.
And maybe a kiss on the cheek...
So in other words our Wii U's are alive? Yeah that makes sense. I always thought my Wii U was way more powerful then a 360.
I love these videos. Coming home from work, making a cup of tea (Because beer is not my thing) and binge watching some GHG. Unbeatable
In the right hands, it’s powerful. It probably has more potential than what’s here now. We need more 1st class HomeBrew that pushes the limits of what its capable of.
With great power, comes great games
Didn't you watch the video? The CPU is a slow turd, there's not much you can do about it, if they hadn't pushed the touchpad controller gimmick so hard, they would've had enough budget for a better CPU. That useless touchpad controller is responsible for the downfall of the whole system.
@@callofgamer24You couldnt have said it better. At least mine is hacked and can play the entire Nintendo legacy on it.
Sounds like you're whispering this to me from under your blanket.
Finally, a vid for Wii U!
Pr0tat0 your profile pic goes with your comment very well.
thx m8
thought channel died
Hitesh Dutta Doesn't he work in fast food? He would do better off full time TH-cam.
really like his uploads, takes me back to 90's
***** People with 400k are making upwards of 10k a month...
Musix_Match you can get paid even with 2 subscribers. It depends on views, not subscribers. Assuming your channel is running ads.
Musix_Match im not saying YOU are getting paid. Just simply saying anyone can get paid, even if it's a few cents due to low views without needing 1M subs
mario kart 8 graphics makes me cry this is gorgeous
CEMU solves that problem of PC Gamers wanting to play Wii U games.
It's not the same though especially with games that require you to use the gamepad.
That’s why I purchased a Wii U
@@Adamchevy Me too,
I don't know about everyone else, but I never once had performance issues or frame drops on my Wii u, all my games ran buttery smooth. I also really don't think it's fair to showcase the Wii U's most recent, most demanding title as the showing for its poor power, especially since that title, Breath of the Wild, didn't exist for a huge portion of its lifetime.
Speed Grump botw runs great now.
Thats for the switch too, so does it really matter?
So we shouldn't show games like the last of us / God of war ascension / granturismo 6 / ratchet and clank into the nexus despite showing the best the ps3 can do cause they came out in the last days of the ps3 ?
solid 6/10 For some people it does. I own a Switch, but obviously not all of 13-14 million people who bought a Wii U have a Switch yet. Also, while the Switch version is superior, the Wii U one is nearly identical. Remember BotW was developed from the ground up for the Wii U and then ported over to the Switch late in development. It was basically The Twilight Princess situation on the Gamecube and Wii all over again.
Yeah but they both have it.
An ambulance went by me and while I was watching this video and it was vaguely fitting
Great video mate. I subscribed to your channel a while ago. I owned a lot of consoles in my lifetime, including Atari, Sega, PlayStation, Xbox, even some old Philips cartridge consoles and off course Nintendo systems. I'm a fan of Nintendo and their games, but I never bought a Wii U. I've played from a friend a couple of times, and I was impressed by the graphical performance of the Wii U. Nintendo knows how to make efficient 1st party with hardware limitations. The time I've played on the Wii U was back in 2014. I was aware that PlayStation 4 & Xbox One were much powerful. Beside that, I've enjoyed games like Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, Zelda Wind Waker HD, and a couple other games. Sadly enough Wii U lacks 3rd party support thanks to the underpowered CPU. In 2016 I bought a PlayStation 4 and at the moment playing a lot of Breath Of The Wild on the Switch. Both are lovely systems with their own games and features. Blu ray movies on PS4 as an example. I don't mind what console people are playing, they all have their own games. And a gamer wants to play all of the great games available. I'm looking forward to Super Mario Odyssey and Metroid Prime 4 for the Switch and God Of War and Gran Turismo Sport for the PlayStation 4. Also considering of buying a Xbox One in the near future. They have also some great games I love from the Xbox consoles like Gears of War , Halo and Forza as examples. Furthermore, keep up the good work. I always enjoy watching your video's. Friendly regards, Emiel
Emiel333 Official True gamers always recognize every developers and console companies' quality.
I'm a PS4 and Wii U owner too. As much as I love Zelda Botw, Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon, I also love Uncharted, GOW, Shadow of the Colossus or Horizon Zero Dawn from the PS4.
I now want to get a new graphic card (I'll probably wait for the new gen) to play multiplayer games, like Battlefield, Rocket League and Assetto Corsa with a wheel. And I'd have had a Xbox One too, as I had a 360 last gen and I absolutely loved it. The Switch is still not worth it for me as a Wii U owner, but it will get interesting for sure in the future. Anyways, they're both out of the budget if I want to finish the PC.
At the end of the day our only problems are money and time! As we've got other oblies and hobbies too.
Cheers from Spain.
the wii u is a great console to me i love playing the wii u i love the games too.
I can't believe you've done this...
Nintendo should have tried to make a slim version of the wiiu that is smaller in size so that it can be more easily portablized. The current wiiu is large to be carried and even with old tech it still takes a lot of power and overheats which is a problem, but I like that tablet controller on it.
hbarudi overheats? WTF?
One day i played like for 10 hours and WiiU was still Cold ASF without framedrops or problems
How thick are some people, well most people on TH-cam. He’s being sarcastic.
GHG is the only youtuber that buys ciggateres for his hardware
I have a keybind directly set up to take me to your YT channel. I always watch this at 6:00 AM after walking the dog and watching the airplanes takeoff at the airport.
do an RX 460 video
DrEpixStudios no... just no
DrEpixStudios he shoulds it's the strongest budget card out right now. actually he should do a rx 560 video
shane neyome That would be interesting.
he should!! i got an msi rx 460 4gb oc and for 120$ it is doing great!
sometimes he does new stuff, $300 fallout pc, gaming on a 4" stick
It's more powerful than 8 GTX 1080 TIs combined
Xps* lower case for the newest Titans on the p.
Also more powerful than every single individual piece of hardware manufactured by AMD... combined!
Magasquage Productions would've been a decent joke if it wasn't running an amd gpu
asd csfsdcxc I'm shitposting lol
I should rephrase it. Everything except for the piece in the Nintendo console lol
Nah, 11 GTX 1080 Ti's and 1 GTX 1050 Ti.
This video popped up in my suggested box. A very well put together video indeed! Great editing and a sense of humor. Subbed!
The best video about this underrated console!
Underrated engine hardware get unit sold out 13.5 millions? I think not.
GAMECUBE THE BEST!!!
@Jeeses99 dude the ps2 was the most underpowered of the three
I love at 11:03 near the end of the video the Wii U is thug life AF!! just casually sitting there with a lighter to the side and a spliff burning away in the disc drive!! lol classic!
You would make a fantastic voice actor
Xenoblade Chronicles X footage would have been great too
Liquid I can't even imagine what a xenoblade game on the ps4!
No I'm not a fanboy
It seemed like the start of a new trend for lackluster CPU's, because even the Xbox One and PS4 had CPU's that weren't quite up to par with the standard, i kept hearing, but the GPU's were very good and decent.
Correction: How powerful *was* the wii u
sadface
i cri evertim
why was? its still the best console ever WAY above the switch thing
I'm making a joke about how the wii u died...
I never said it was bad, but in my opinion the switch is better, mainly because it feels less tacky and actually does what it says on the tin, as well as being able to actually run breath of the wild.
Striker Hagane the wii u can run botw fine
6:51
Actually, the Xbox One has a bandwidth of 204 GB/s when the ESRAM is properly used.
The U's latte has 32mb of eDRAM too.
ESRAM is used as l4 cache, so not really a accurate comparison.
Fun fact: The Wii U's CPU was so absurdly bad, both Nintendo and third parties have consistently gotten dramatically better performance out of the Switch's quad A57 chips, which themselves are underclocked compared to the Shield TV device that shares the Switch's SoC at 1Ghz. 4 1Ghz ARM chips annihilate the Wii U's 3 1.24 Ghz PowerPC chips.
Sorry but Xenoblade X showed every strength of the Wii U in the best ways possible. That game was a technical master peice that still no other console can properly emulate (not even a 1080ti and Ryzen 2700x).
To not include it is strange.
100%right X is so underrated
can you make more vids of dell optiplex and dimension?
I love my Wii U. I started Paper Mario Color Splash this week and it's great so far.
WHERE ARE YOU GREEN HAM GAMING!!?!?!!??!?!??!?!?!??!?
I'm so early the video maxes out on 360p.
Mason Fowlkes im watching it at 720p kiddo. your connection is shit
It didn't give me a option for anything higher. Now I can do 1080p60.
Dex the gamer
His comment was posted an hour before you replied to him
of course it'd be in HD by the time you watched it
The Boss Stage1 well ok
The crazy part is, not only did they not say much about the GPU, but the same was true in the developer kits, leaving third party devs to try to figure out what was in it by themselves. I'm still not entirely satisfied with how much information we were able to glean from the die shot, it looks like a paltry 160 shaders and 172Gflops. Now that the platform is dead, I wish Nintendo would just lift all the technical NDAs.
@Walther Penne The processor is capable of low latency, but that also limits its top end throughput. It didn't even have modern SIMD, apart from paired singles.
It was just a poorly designed console for the future where the 8th gen twins were just around the corner from its launch.
@Walther Penne You know we've also had ray tracing proof of concepts on CPU running at least as far back as the N64, right. The question is how much you can do and how useful that is vs the resources you've consumed. Let me know the title of this next gen game you're releasing on Wii U with accomplishments the entire industry including Nintendo missed except some random guy on youtube comments, I'd like to check it out as a programmer nearing a decade in the field.
@Walther Penne Well I'm holding on to my Wii U for collectability until then, ping me whenever it's ready for me to try and see if you weren't crazy.
@Walther Penne Care to name these other two teams, and where to follow your work on Discord and twitter?
@Walther Penne Wait, this is you isn't it, it's the other reference to Total Destruction 2025 I found. How many of these projects from 5 years ago panned out? Do you just enjoy saying a lot of words with no output to back it up? Why were you banned?
"- I plan to port the famous "Bioshock" 1, 2 & 3! As well as Portal 1 & 2 if possible! Those are 5 big games and 5 big projects that alone will take at least 1 year to make them working!
- GTA IV will also be one of my bigger projects
- I plan on using "Bayonetta 2" (WiiU-Version) and recompile it for running on PPC instead! So that will fix the variable framerate and make a perfect 60 fps out of it!
- I also plan to port famous Crysis 1,2 and 3 if possible to WiiU!
- I plan to port/Recompile Battlefield 3/4 for WiiU (and 1,2 if possible, but no guarantee for these)"
gbatemp.net/threads/planning-on-making-ports-and-some-other-good-stuff-for-wiiu.487316/
all that gameplay footage near the end was excessive. we got the point 1/4th of the way through the footage. the rest wasn't necessary.
Why did the Wii U Fail so badly? I thought it was cool, having the dual screens like that, and being able to play most of your games while someone can watch TV.
Walther Penne
a) shooters shouldn't be what sells a console
b) $300 plus games and controllers is nothing compared to PS4's $400 plus many $40+ games as well as PS Plus membership and Xbox's $500 and many $40+ games and paid DLC.
c) exactly
Regarding shooters, I'm pretty sure you'll do just fine with ZombiU, Splatoon, and Black Ops 2.
Switch used lots of the games wii u made and are still doing more games like wonderful 101 recently came out,I love my wii u great video sir.
i wish he'd come back
I think he did
Wii U - Powerful GPU, shitty CPU.
PS3 - Powerful CPU, shitty GPU.
XB360 - Balanced!
@Walther Penne Spam much!
The PS3’s CPU was the equivalent of a super computer processor at this point. But harnessing it’s power was extremely difficult, and it required tons of trial and effort to get desired results. Late games of the PS3 demonstrate the true power of Cell, that even the Xbox 360’s Xenon CPU couldn’t match.
This is possibly the best clip on TH-cam. You should be on TV!
Crazy to think that I bought a Wii u over a ps4 in early 2014 and haven't looked back. I still don't own a ps4 and prolly never will. I loved my ps3 but the ps4 didn't really interest me for some reason. Think I just got tired of it. I wanted to see what Nintendo was up to so I "switched" lol. Probably one of my favorite systems next to the Sega Genesis. Going to buy me a Nintendo switch this holiday season!
Alex. Did you get your Switch?
Walther Penne no the switch is not even close to the Xbox one and ps4
Walther Penne Do you even know ANYTHING about the Switch and/or Nintendo?
*facepalm*
elite falcon gaming switch is more closer to a base xbox one than wii u was to xbox one.
Fabricio M Vega doesn’t matter still has obsolete specs
*holds head in horror*
I don't like beer or tea!!!
The Wii U game pad was honestly one of the biggest reasons why it failed and that's ironic because the game pad was supposed to be the key selling point. Devs never really took full advantage of the game pad. It was bulky to hold and not many games were made for it. Third party support was really lacking. Even one of the exclusive third party games for the Wii U, Zombi U, was really an average game at best.
@Daniel Frank Zombi U was an underrated game. How is it an average game at best to you?
You're acutally right here's the flaws
1. Not selling separate
2. Not many games took avantage of it.
3. Was expensive should have been 80$ at least
4. Was bulky behind it should have removed the two bumps behind
5. Could have upgraded the battery life up to 20 hours at least
6. Should have had 780p instead of 480p
Bigblujay 97 It was just another zombie game. Even as a zombie game, dying light was way better. ZombiU had a graphics downgrade if you look at the trailers and compare it to the actual game.
Where are you GhG???
I've watched you, now get out of my "Recommended for you" section.
Untuned Watching it doesn't help. You can click the three little dots, then press "I am not interested" and when the video disappears click on "Tell us why" and select "I am not interested in this channel".
Fuck is your problem?
WtF IS HAPPININ??????
WTF
WTF
Your videos are so chill i love it.
I miss you...
I feel the Wii U kinda young to be smoking but who am I to judge.
Very well constructed video as always, thank you for the upload and I look forward to your next.
"A fucking Radeon"