Wii U twice as powerful as Xbox 360

Is Nintendo’s next console more powerful than they are letting on?

When Nintendo's Wii U releases later this year, players converting from the Xbox 360 will see nearly twice the power in the new console. That is, if the recent rumors from an "unanamed developer source" that relayed the information to Develop Online. If true, this marks a significant jump from early indications of where the console would launch in regards to power.

Develop's source indicates that the console could achieve "roughly twice the processing and graphical potential of Microsoft's current generation machine". If these rumors hold true, the Wii U could be much more powerful than what is currently expected from the console.

Many analyzing Nintendo's "next generation" have labeled the console a Wii 1.5. Could Nintendo be getting ready to surprise everyone with more power than expected, and a true unexpected generational leap? The company has said they aren't concerned with what the competition is doing, but we'll have to wait for Nintendo to start announcing official specs for the console to see if these rumors hold up.

By William Schwartz on January 26, 2012

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IHATETROLLS

It’s all about the coding and how much effort a developer puts in look at the drastic graphical changes of the early current gen games and later current gen games on the same 6 year old hardware no less
ian

A few days ago you released an artical saying that the next xbox will be 6x more powerful than the current xbox and only 20%more powerful than the wii u So then how is the wii u only twice as powerful as a normal xbox ?
Bacon

All these rumors are now becoming bs
- Allen
  
  Exactly, besides; if all the console gets are ports then it won’t mean a thing. But I suppose it’s possible that 3rd party developers will put the time into it to make it look great.
Bacon

Breaking news: “gaming analyst BACON hinted that Microsoft and Sony will form a next-gen console together” hmmmm sound legit lol
Heavenswarrior121

The only thing microsoft and sony needs to agree on is online multiplayer cross platform wars! Imagine they had a lobby where ps3 users and 360s users can go against eachother in all out war in cod or battlefield!
njb

wouldnt work

I dont mind having different consoles and different online networks

It makes them completely different and diverse

Cross gaming sounds like a good idea but until its implemented we cant say for sure.

Portal 2 was slick on PS3 and PC, Now their trying it with Counterstrike but only if MS put Steam works on the 360
Paul

Wow, what a story. A console created 6 years after another console will be more powerful than the 6 year old console. Congrats AOTFB staff you are writing some amazing discovery stories here.
- Brevs
  
  Im glad somebody had the brains to point that out. Obviously 6 year old hardware is going to be beat by modern hardware.
That Guy

wow so being twice as good as a 6 year old console will make it use 3 year old hardware. now thats a plan!
Cool dude

Twice as powerful doesnt cut it. Heck, not even 6x!
jason

Who cares, Im sure the PS4 and 720 are goin to be Much more Powerful than the WiiU as usual!
- That Guy
  
  saying something is usual means ot happens often. neither the ps3 nor the 720 have been released yet so your statement is invalid.
- jason
  
  Damn, U win again! :P
IHATEHIPSTERS

Wait, I’m confused. The wii u will be twice as powerful as the current 360. Yet another report says the new xbox will be SIX times more powerful then the 360, but only 20% more powerful than the wii u. I think all these reports are bs lol and I really hope the graphics for the next xbox is amazing.
AIRFREAK

Lets have a Battlefield game with 3 persistent factions and cross platform competitive multiplayer between the Wii U, 720 and ps4. Imagine how rapidly the console flame war would escalate. Make each faction different and OP accusations would start flying (MAG style). That would be so awesome.

Wont ever happen though :’(
Bacon

Multiplayer cross platform wars would just increase the number of hacking activity n it won’t benefit either Sony or Microsoft
Dutch

So its as powerful as a PS3?
name

i dont get it…xbox720 is gonna have 6 times the power of the 360 and 20% more power than the wiiu …and if i do the math the numbers dont fit
ThatAdolfGuy

>:-( I hate rumors, wait! i know what we can do lets all agree that all the next gen consoles will be more better than the current gen consoles and that the PS4 will be the best :)
Paul

I just heard that the Wii U is going to be more powerful than the original Nintendo, how come no story on that?
- Wii U
  
  Haha, well let’s hope it won’t become a rat race again.