WIIU近期的硬體業內爆料與情報

Toyger

From our friendly neighbourhood rumor poster:
Third-party studios will receive the "v5" dev kits very soon (before the next month). It's even possible that some just got them

- They are apparently the dev kits which where in possession of Nintendo lately (whereas third-parties had the V4).
- There is a noticeable increase of performances with them, a noticeable but not huge however. We don't know if this amelioration is due to a change of components, tweaking of the previously present ones (frequencies, etc.), or a global & light optimization of the hardware, the dev kit itself, the software development kit that may be linked to it, etc.

Some details about the context and assumptions:

- Except maybe big japanese studios (like Capcom), i doubt that other third-parties received these dev kits (much) earlier. It's likely that my sources are one of the firsts to be granted of the latest revisions. This means that all the declarations, the news, from foreign developers, that you've read until now, were in a V4 dev kit framework, before the release of these newest ones.

- A previous post of lherre indicated that Nintendo guys were testing an engine and saw slightly improved results on the V5 compare to V4.
Context: it was posted 1 month ago, when lherre decided to come out of his lair in answer to my very first message to confirm that Wii U was clearly closer to "2x than 5x xbox360". And he basically added that the expected more advanced dev kit in Nintendo headquarters at the time that i've talked about will not change dramatically the Wii U power status. So he surely knew of these engine benchmarks before my intervention, maybe some days, maybe some weeks.
Assumption: considering the 1month+ interval between these internal tests and the V5 delivery to third-parties (minus the dev kits assembly and shipping), there's a chance that the V5 dev kits in the hands of foreign studios have received even more hardware refinements and optimizations than the models used for these Nintendo tests some time before.
- They could have a different code name, but my sources called them V5, as in "the ones following the V4 that they currently develop on". Therefore, it appears they are a rather major revision.
[Now, a detail that could be important, but i'm not sure at all of it, as what my sources told me isn't clear and rely on subjectivity (maybe they haven't understood well what Nintendo said). Take that with caution, and it would be cool if a developer working on the Wii U could precise this.

- It seems these kits may be "near final"
It's possible that Nintendo still have more advanced dev kits, but apparently not to a point to constitute a real new future revision (perhaps just small increments in numbers like 5.1/5.2). There may be new dev kit shippings to come but it could point that there is a progressive stabilization in hardware changes. It could also be a word-confusion from my sources between "last" and "latest", or maybe Nintendo thought that when i gathered these infos (a few weeks) but in fact there will be new revisions in the work because they decided to modify the components again, etc. So big grain of salt for this part]

I hope we'll hear more about these dev kits, what kind of modifications occurred on them, and their performances.

Toyger

neogaf業內爆出 大概看一下是說WIIU的開發工具已經來到了最新的dev kit 5  從dev kit 1到dev kit 5. CPU性能和RAM都一直再提高
最新dev kit 5有了1GB以上的RAM  CPU和GPU的性能也加強了
Wiiu顯然更接近“2倍以上5倍XBOX360 (不知道是V4版還是V5版的開發工具)
最終完全版可能已經快接近了
http://mynintendonews.com/2012/0 ... is-pretty-powerful/
上面提到WIIU非常的pretty-powerful  但是他們不能透露有關WIIU的細節!!!!!!!
“沒有太多，我真的能談談現在，但我認為WiiU是一個非常強大的機器，這顯然意味著更多的資源，這意味著你可以做更多的事情。所以Wiiü團隊做得非常好，我們已經與任天堂合作，我認為這將是一個非常激動人心的Darksiders版本，但我們要保持相對整體一致。“

補一下留言內容
Since we’re all doing quotes:
THQ: “WiiU is just alot more powerful than current HD consoles it does 1080p very easy.”
Crytek: “WiiU devkits are very powerful,the specs are very good”
Vigil Games: “We had the game at the same level as high end pc version in a matter of days and a few lines of code got the game up and running on tablet in 5 mins.”
Epic: “It will do things current HD consoles simply cant do its going to be a powerful box.”

THQ:WIIU要跑1080P 非常的簡單容易!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~~等E3見真章~~