Wii U to be More Powerful than Xbox 360

Nowadays, there are rumors flying around everywhere in regards to the next-generation consoles. The latest rumor comes from an unnamed Japanese developer who claims to know that the Wii U will be approximately fifty percent more powerful than the Xbox 360.

This news comes from an unnamed Japanese developer, who is reportedly working on porting a PlayStation 3 title over to the Wii U, told website Wii U Daily that the console will have a processor similar to the one found in the Xbox 360, but considerably more powerful. The rumored specs are:

• Quad Core, 3 GHz PowerPC-based 45nm CPU, very similar to the Xbox 360 chip.
• 768 MB of DRAM “embedded” with the CPU, and shared between CPU and GPU
• Unknown, 40nm ATI-based GPU

The same source told the website that Nintendo is testing two versions of the console, one with 768 MB of DRAM and one with 1 GB. Like the SKU with 768 MB of DRAM, the 1GB version’s RAM is also embedded with the CPU.

Going by what Nintendo showed off in their tech demos at E3 this year, these specs don’t seem all that far-fetched. Still, you should take this rumor with a grain of salt until Nintendo gets around to hammering out the final specs.