That squares with our own reporting from before E3 and puts Nintendo in a good place to run games that fill up a single-layer 25GB Blu-Ray disc, the format used by current console king of large game discs, the PlayStation 3.
Eguchi declined to comment on our report, from the same people who told us about the 25GB, that the system’s internal flash memory is 8GB. Earlier today, a Nintendo rep explained that the new console will support external USB drives, for added storage capacity.
We’ll have tons more about Wii U, including a lot of insights from Eguchi about what makes this console special for Nintendo, in the coming days.
Republished from Kotaku
Distractobot
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 12:01 PMThe main thing I want to know is how it stacks up against the PS3 or Xbox360. Seeing the preview videos I get the feeling it’s probably only equal to the currents systems.
Mark
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 2:33 PMthats because the preview videos are actually from ps3/xbox/pc versions of the games
Jordaan
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 2:35 PMSuperior CPU, marginally better GPU, from what info’s been released. Honestly though, these days, it’s more about shader capabilities than raw polygon pushing power, so it’s anyone’s guess till developers get their hands on it.
matt
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 2:52 PMI think graphics wise, it’s half way between the ps3/360, and current PC graphics cards.
its beefier than the current systems.
Marek
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 5:48 PMI really hope that the Wii U will be able to play blu-ray movies, but seeing as the Wii didn’t play DVDs it’s probably not very likely.