Wii U Faster Than 360 Or PS3, No Blu-ray Or DVD Support

jdkramar was one of several readers with news about the Wii hardware underground information that 's already trickling out to write since E3. The new console is a multi-core processor IBM on 45nm architecture (technology that is currently running Watson) is based, and is an AMD R700 GPU chipset in the Radeon 4000 line of graphics cards have been found. Apparently it is in fact run Crysis. Nintendo has confirmed that the Wii is a proprietary U-25GB disc format to use, and won 't support DVD or Blu-ray playback. A spokesperson said, "The reason why we feel that enough people already have devices that are capable of playing DVDs and Blu-ray, so it didn 't be responsible for the costs associated with this functionality in the Wii console build underground because of the patents related to these technologies have \. "

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