Wii U Produces Better Visuals Than PS3 And 360, Says Trine 2 Developer

wow....I'm soooooooooooooooooooooo surprised that a brand new system is outperforming ones that are like 6-7 year old. what will they think of next? that fresh bread is better for you than one that a month old?

As long as people still hold onto their "fact" that Nintendo can't make a powerful system, they will keep stating as such.

So do you and Alex get into WiiU-related knife fights in the office or what?

It better be sitting atop the totem pole, it is the next gen after all. Considering there is debate as to whether or not it is better than 7 year old consoles I'd say it should enjoy its time at the top right now because its going to be left in the dust when the new ones drop.

None of the launch titles really pushed the Wii U to its limits. It is going to take a couple years for developers to start maximizing the potential the Wii U contains.

Which is the same for every console. I still don't think we have seen all the PS3 and 360 can do. Hopefully The Last Guardian will be that swan song for the PS3.

Those statements are taken out of context. C'mon Jonathan. What the developer said was the port to the Wii U was easier than the 360 or PS3. They simply found the architecture easier to adapt to their game, and for that reason they were able to produce better graphics. Let's have some objectivity. I am not saying the Wii U doesn't produce better visuals, because I don't know yet. But this developer isn't saying the Wii U can outperforme the other systems across the board either.

As long as some random developer compares console X with console Y and Z, it will immediately make the GR News.

I was playing with WiiU the other day. The system lags to do anything to the point you don't believe it has enough memory. I've seen no killer apps on the system, and I've seen no advertisement for upcoming killer apps.

To tell you the truth, I'd have been impressed if the WiiU was just a portable Gamepad with 4G/LTE allowing you to play any and everywhere with people online. The WiiU Gamepad and Vita are my idea of what a portable gaming system should be. Where's the Xbox counterpart?

Sometimes silence really is golden! For a developer to come out and state that a current-gen console is as good as its last-gen counterparts, and mean it as a compliment, is both a little comical and tragic. Firstly, Nintendo doesn't and shouldn't need any such "support" - Nintendo hasn't focused on "eye-candy first" tactics for many years now, and they are doing just fine. Time to put this nonsense to rest. Something always beats something else - bring on the PS4, because a PC will shred it apart regardless - sure, at what cost...but if people want to get hung up on this mary-go-around BS about graphics and hardware then they better be ready for the pros and the cons and not just always focus on who they can beat up. Besides, it's Nintendo, everybody needs to show some respect...

i remember saying "i guess it looks the same" when i went from a playstation one to a playstation two.
oh wait a second, lick my ass, i don't. god damend nintendo.

I don't understand why this is news to anyone (not a slight against GR, just a general comment). The Wii U is 6 years newer than it's competitors, it *should* have better graphics. I think the real story here is that, despite being 6 years newer, the Wii U doesn't look significantly better than the PS3 or 360.

I came in to post this. The jump from Wii to Wii U is significant, but I'd call Wii U more on par with this gen than the Wii was.

The leap from Wii to Wii U is much more than a significant leap, it is a significant one from the 360, it's just not the enormous leap people expect to see. Remember the leap from PS2 to PS3? Gamers are expecting the next leap to be much bigger than that. But based on the specs I've seen from the Wii U, it looks to be well built for what next gen games will be aiming for, especially with its GPGPU, which games will be utilizing more significantly in coming years, whereas right now most games are very CPU reliant. Apparently, the Wii U uses a remodeled version of the 5770 with GPGPU functionality, which is actually quite significant from the 360.

Developers have stated that the leap is a significant one, just not the huge leap people are expecting from next-gen consoles. You should see some of the things gamers are expecting the PS4 and 720 to have. I've actually seen articles where people give their word on what they expect next gen consoles to have, and they are talking about 20gb of RAM, the latest in Radeon GPUs like an 8000 series card, a 5.0 GHZ 8 core CPU with multithreading of up to 6 threads of code per core, and there's also the rumor that the PS4 will have 4K resolution support. All while running games at 60 frames per second or higher. This is just the minimum of what people are expecting, it's ridiculous. On top of that, they try to predict the specs as if they will be using raw PC components. Expectations are way too high, and that's why gamers are unimpressed by the Wii U.

Anyone who realistically expects 20gb of ram and an 8 core processor from the next gen is an idiot and they're opinion on the subject should not be taken into consideration

You do realize that a console with those specs would easily push $3000?

And he claims that's the MINIMUM people are saying...

Of course I realize this, I was simply re-iterating what I have read from prediction articles written by gamers like you and me. Did I ever say I believed it? No I did not. I was simply making the point that gamers have set expectations far too high for the next generation, and that is why people have been unimpressed by the Wii U in terms of its power, regardless of it being a significant leap,which it actually is, just not to the same level of a leap as PS2 to PS3, not even close, but significant enough to make a difference. I'm not lying about the specs gamers are expecting, this actually is what people expect the PS4 and 720 to have, I couldn't make it up if I tried. Maybe I was exaggerating when I said it was the minimum people are expecting, but my point is gamers expect too much.

Of course people are expecting too much. The tiny, cramped, console form-factor has major heat issues, and with a cpu clocked that high it would burn up in about 2 days. Theres a reason Nintendo clocked the Wii U cpu down in the 1.3ghz range, and that is purely for heat reduction.