Speaking with CVG UK, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli gave Nintendo his nod of approval, singing praises for their forthcoming Wii U and revealed that their touted CryEngine 3 could not only run on it, but had recently been licensed for an upcoming Wii U title yet to be announced.

"[CryEngine 3] actually runs beautifully," Yerli told the site. "In fact, there actually is a game in development from a respected developer that we will be announcing. I've seen the game running and it looks really great.

"From my perspective I do not understand the public's concerns that the Wii U is weaker than PS3 and 360," he continued. "From my perspective the Wii U is minimum as powerful as Xbox 360."

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Hmm, not sure if I was to buy another console if I would get something of current generation power when next-gen powered consoles are coming out.

I would fear it would end up similar to the Wii. Covered in Dust and barely used.

He states that it is at minimum as powerful as a Xbox 360, so who knows what its maximum is. Hopefully more info will come out soon, including actual specifications instead of just "it has a CPU".

Here's hoping it is nice and cheap.

But I won't be buying one until there are some decent exclusive games.

I thought at first glance this thread said "Wii U as powerful as Crytek Boss", which would have been awesome.

mario cart doesn't need a big system to run it

Powerul

why don't you go and play them then?

i'm not seeing what that has to do with a new nintendo system?

why do nintendo fans not like new games or something?

Typo in subject as dais very subtly pointed out -- "powerful" in place of "powerul".

why don't you go and play them then?

i'm not seeing what that has to do with a new nintendo system?

why do nintendo fans not like new games or something?

Badly articulated by Stalfax but I think he means he wants a return to the golden days of a Nintendo console having a (relatively) large variety of awesome original games that were innovative and fun. Or maybe he just wants better graphics.

I want Rare to go back to its old school ways. Checkout this list and see how many of those games were from rare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player%27s_Choice#Nintendo_64

Darkhawk: Not very powerful: http://zsnes-docs.sourceforge.net/html/readme.htm 266MHz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS One 67.028 MHz ARM946E-S[2] and one 33.514 MHz ARM7TDMI

Greazy: The SNES's clock speed was only 3.4 MHz, that's the point I was making.

Your point is silly, unoptimised emulation like the original SNES emulators has a huge amount of overhead compared to software running natively. I get what you mean, but that particular example really isn't relevant to the point you're trying to make.

Also consoles are optimised for gaming, remember how powerful PCs needed to be just to be able to emulate SNES games?

You should read this: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/

Predictions for games on release...

Zelda 7
Mario Galaxy 3
Pilot Wings 3
Metroid 4
Wii U Sports 2
Beach Sports Games 3
Just Dance 4
Golden Eye Wii U 2
Sonic All Stars Racing 2

Zelda 7

Metroid 4

Both of these have existed for about a decade.

Interesting. Show me the covers of Zelda 7 and Metroid 4. I must have missed them.

8-/

Metroid Fusion is Metroid 4 (it even says so in the opening), and the seventh Zelda is Oracle of Ages/Oracle of Seasons.

I want a direct sequel to Link to the Past, in the same top down style. Or a Majora's Mask like in the video I posted.