Wii U CPU speed is 'kind of low' says Tekken producer
Harada says the Tekken Tag Tournament 2 team has had to be creative, but the game is looking good on Wii U.
The CPU inside the Wii U is a bit on the slow side, perhaps even more sluggish than the ageing CPU inside the Xbox 360 and PS3, Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has told Digital Spy.
"I think maybe the game is coming along smoother than most people would think, as far as the look of the game," he told Digital Spy.
"As far as graphical processing and such, it's not much of an issue. But as far as the CPU goes, the clock is kinda low.
"I guess they're trying to keep power consumption down so we have to come up with creative ways to get around that and that's taking a little bit of time."
Asked if the Wii U CPU was slower than that of the Xbox 360 and PS3, Harada said: "Maybe a little bit."
He continued: "For example on PS3 it was kind of difficult at first, but if you made good use of the different cores, you could split up the processing tasks and you could achieve very good effects. But this is kind of a different issue than that."
Namco Bandai isn't yet discussing release date for the Wii U version of Tekken Tag 2, but Harada says he hopes it will be out "as close as possible" to the other versions set for September 14.
User Comments
Endless@ Bloodstorm
Yet regardless of the technicalities, a developer is having to code a work-around based on hardware restrictions. They even goes as far as specifying that it's not a similar issue to the PS3 where you have more cores or threads to work with to compensate for a lower speed.
The message I get from this is essentially that Nintendo has done another GCN > Wii move and they are STILL a hardware generation behind.
At least no-one has any complaints about the GPU, so there's hope yet :)
Bloodstorm@ Woffls
Woffls
Modern CPU architecture is much more efficient, so it can do more at a lower clock speed. Sure, the Wii U CPU would be faster with a higher clock speed, but even with a lower clock speed than 360 or PS3 it will still outperform both quite comfortably.