Wii U 50 Percent More Powerful Than PS3, Says Analyst

by Mike Bendel on June 13, 2011 @ 2:22 pm


Aside from Nintendo’s own Zelda tech demo, the company did little to push the graphical capabilities of its newly announced Wii U hardware at E3 2011. Amplifying this is the fact that third-party footage shown was running code direct from PS3 and Xbox 360. So how does the Wii U stack up to these six year-old machines?

While Nintendo hasn’t released any official data yet, Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia has reportedly told Industry Gamers that multiple developers confirmed a figure of 50 percent more powerful, compared to PS3 and 360.

“Some of the developers we spoke to indicated to us that the console will have 50% more processing power compared to the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. This is yet to be confirmed by Nintendo.”

It’s odd that Nintendo refrained from mentioning this at all during its E3 showing, but then again, it did want to focus on the controller rather than the hardware itself. This is something it reiterated throughout the show. Here’s hoping that more light will be shed on the specifications in the coming months.

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Comments
BlackSheep says:

I doubt it the tech demo was just bad its better but more like 10%

June 13, 2011, 11:19 pm
TeamOverload says:

You're basing this off what? A tech demo from a console that's a year or more out? Sound like we're just making up percentages.

June 13, 2011, 11:41 pm
Trigun says:

I still doubt it's 50% more powerful. Until I see it.

And if it was, they would've been able to create a solution for upscaling Wii games.

it will probably just end up holding the industry back graphically just like everything else that isn't a PC is doing.
June 13, 2011, 11:52 pm
Robby says:

So you're saying the Wii U tech demo was bad, but 10% better then the PS3.

So what does that say about the PS3?
June 14, 2011, 2:10 am
BlackSheep says:

The ps3 isnt a next gen console and this is

June 14, 2011, 2:32 am
BlackSheep says:

and a tech demo is suppose to display the power the system has.

June 14, 2011, 2:32 am
Robby says:

You have to remember, the first thing you see of consoles is not it's full power.

I mean, compare launch titles of xbox and ps3 to what games we are going to get this year.

I thought the PS3 and Xbox360 were next gen? I mean, that's what everyone has been saying for the past 5 years. If anything, this is Nintendo catching up.
June 14, 2011, 2:41 am
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