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Originally Posted by Falhawk
I honestly don't know what to make of the Wii u thing. Is it a regular wiinwith just a new controller (that only one person can use)
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No, it is considerably more powerful than the Wii.
The CPU is an IBM Power7 CPU (
Source) that is rumored to have at least three cores. It has 2 GBs of RAM (1 GB for games, 1 GB for the rest of the system) and a custom GPU based on the Radeon 7 series that is capable of DX10 and SM4. The CPU is the part that has not really had much details to go on. Satoru Iwata, the current president of Nintendo, did a
preview today confirming other things, but it is in Japanese.
Anonymous developers have been reported saying the CPU could be a potential bottleneck compared to the rest of the hardware, but that it ran the current-gen games at higher native resolutions with better performance than what's usually offered today. Others were quoted saying they were able to dump their entire game/level into RAM and saw faster performance instead of reading from the disk during gameplay.