Yeah, I'm amazed people don't know the Gamecube was more powerful than the PS2. The only systems more powerful that are kind of within that hardware generation are the Wii and Xbox.
It was AMAZING hardware in 2001, particularly for the they're-basically-giving-it-away price of $200 at launch.
I don't know...I'm pretty excited by the prospect of a new Nintendo system. I hope it has backwards compatibility, and I hope it's more powerful than the PS3/360, and I hope its non-gimmicky...
Some negative things about it how no one will really do much extra for it even if it's more powerful. Well, that's true at first...except Nintendo will, and there will be a handful here or there.
Plus really they're already doing extra development work for PC. If the Gamecube 2 can run at 1080p, use the PC versions higher resolution textures, and better processing effects...well that's going to be worth getting the GC2 version of a game for.
If it's true that it's hitting two years ahead of the other systems, then...well...kind of cool.
I don't know, Nintendo's in a weird spot right now, but I just hope if they take a stab at a real gamer's console again like they did with the Gamecube, that it hits big this time. I will slap the first eleven year old who goes "KIDDIE!"
Oh, another thing in regards to the Wii being dead...well, maybe, but so is the 360 as far as we can tell right now. It's only got two first party exclusives we know of for the rest of eternity. To me that means either Microsoft's exiting the console business (while just milking the Xbox for what it's worth), or they have a bunch of stuff, but it's all hidden until e3, or they have an Xbox 3 launching this year or next, and development's all shifted over there.
Hmm...reading IGN's article, they've heard the Gamecube 2 (hey, I can call it that if they call it Wii 2
) is "significantly more powerful" than the current gen systems, and that it's going to have a Radeon 4xxx series GPU in it.
Of course THAT doesn't tell us much. It's a generation (or two) out of date, but ranges from still awesome, to barely better than the current gen systems (or maybe slightly worse). Just depends on what it actually is. That's a Direct X 10 part. Weird that they wouldn't be using a variant of the current hardware...
But it says they're shooting for $350-400. If true, that implies it's going to be on the high end of that spectrum, which could make it SEVERAL times more powerful than a PS3/360. It could be that it's sort of in between the PS4 and PS3...or even that it's competitive with the PS4.
At any rate, sounds like a far cry from the Wii. I am SO damn excited to see the Galaxy team's work on this crazy system...