Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Wii U - capable of graphics like this?




In a recent interview Gearbox has said that with the Wii U we will be seeing textures at resolution not yet possible with current gen HD consoles. Also, Epic games has come out and said that the Wii U is "opens up some doors that weren't open before on current generation consoles because it is going to be a powerful box."

There is a new mod for Crysis 2 called "Blackfire" which improves the textures even more so than Crytek's own update for the PC version of the game. If you skip to about 1:25 in the video you will see a good example of textures that are not currently possible on PS3 and Xbox 360. Will the Wii U have games that have graphics similar to this? I'm betting on yes since the features that will be present in the Wii U's GPU are all the same as a DirectX 11 graphics card but being rendered with Open GL. I'm excited to see what Crytek and Epic Games can do with the Wii U's expanded graphical abilities!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

theres an even better way than direct and open CODE DIRECTLY TO THE METAL micro-code and assembly code right to the gpu/cpu middleware hogs resourses if you removed windows from a pc and also by passed direct and coded to the chips you could double or trebble that pcs gaming power...wiiu has more ram and bandwidth and a big ibm edram catch that alone would add ectra textures effects frames resolution etc i still say very very mimimum ps3/x360 conbined more likley more than that.....

Anonymous said...

lol @ conduit like enemy's and suit...

Metaldave said...

You mean The Conduit done right? Crysis 2 may not be the best game or have the best designed enemies, but it craps all over both Conduit games many times over....

Anonymous said...

regardless of graphics its still shit ""the voices head in hands"" no one was bigging up condit i was pointing out the DUMB industry selling this tat as if its any good