Hardware

HARDWARE

CURRENT GEN (7th)


Nintendo Wii

 

 

 

The Wii's hardware specs are thus: It's 1.75 inches tall, 6 inches in width, 8.5 inches in depth & weighs 2.65 pounds. For software, it has a PowerPC CPU (that's code-named "Broadway") jointly developed with and manufactured by IBM, it has a ATI/AMD graphics processing unit, has 512 megabytes of internal flash memory for game saves and data, two USB 2.0 ports and built-in wired and wireless broadband Internet capability. It uses its own Optical Discs for hard game storage.

 

PlayStation 3

 

 



 

 

 For the PS3, I'll be looking at the original console (shown above). It is 32.5 cm in width, 9.8 cm in height and 27.4 cm in diameter. For software, it has a 3.2 GHz Cell Broadband Engine with 1 PPE & 6 SPEs, a 550 MHz NVIDIA/SCEI RSX 'Reality Synthesizer' graphics processing unit, ranges from 20GB to 500GB of storage capacity, 2 USB ports and built-in wireless broadband internet capability. It uses Blu-Ray Discs for hard game storage, though DVD videos can also be played.

Xbox 360

 



 The original Xbox 360 is 12.15 in wide, 3.27 in high and 10.15 in deep. For software, it uses a 3.2 GHz PowerPC Tri-Core Xenon for CPU, a 500 MHz ATI Xenos graphics engine, ranges from 20GB to 250GB of storage space and has wireless internet capabilities. It uses DVD's for hard game storage.

 

 

 

NEXT GEN (8th)

 

PlayStation 4

 

 

The PlayStation 4 will be released in Europe on November 29th 2013.

 

The height, weight and depth of the console is not yet known. It will use a Single-chip custom processor, with a low power x86-64 AMD "Jaguar", 8 core CPU, and for GPU it'll use 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD next-generation Radeon™ based graphics engine. It uses GDDR5 8GB for memory, and has a 500GB removable Hard Disk Drive. It has wireless internet capabilities, and uses Blu-Ray discs for hard game storage.

 

It will not be backwards compatible with any disc-based PS1, PS2 or PS3 games, but it plans to launch a game streaming service called Gaikai in 2014.

 

Information is correct as of 10 June 2013.

 

 

 

Xbox One

 

 

 

 

The Xbox One will be released in Europe on November 22nd 2013.

 

The height, weight & depth of the console is not yet known. It will use an 8 Core AMD custom CPU
Frequency: 1.75 GHz CPU, and has a 853 MHz GPU. It has 8GB of Flash Memory, and 500 GB Hard Drive. It has wireless internet capabilities, and uses Blu-Ray discs for hard game storage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wii U

 

The Wii U was released in Europe on November 30th 2012, making it the first home console in the 8th generation.

 

It is 1.8 inches high, 6.8 inches wide, 10.5 inches long and weighs 1.6kg. It uses a IBM Power®-based multi-core processor for CPU, AMD Radeon™-based High Definition GPU, and internal flash memory (8 GB with the Basic Set; 32 GB with the Deluxe Set). It has wireless internet capabilities and uses its own Wii U Optical Discs for hard game storage.