720fps@30fps with current game assets and effects is not a speculation.
Quick ports often don't take advantage of specialized hardware all that well. Even not so quick, as things like
this prove.
Yes, seemingly simple things like that can make a huge difference. No, devs don't always do a good job.
Just saying, you know? No? Now you do. Hopefully.
Note: you don't have to get the mod because Bethesda implemented it eventually, though not to the extent the modder claimed possible. It also annoyed me that they pretty much implemented it in the same exact manner, which means there's a slight visual bug with light sources changing intensity when you first approach them, which didn't happen before the mod and then the patch.
And yeah it's speculation to say what it's closer to since WiiU is still quite an unknown quantity but more than that the other systems are near 100% unknown (btw Perkel you also fail to mention how it often maintains that while rendering double the assets due to having an independent view on the GamePad, unless you also don't know how that can affect performance, especially when it's not even split screen which you could say balances it a little by halving the resolution). Though I guess dark10x merely assumes the other systems are going to be more powerful (even if by a little) and so meant they're further away from current gen than the WiiU is, not that the WiiU is closer to current gen than it is to those, it was a little ambiguously worded.
And yeah, nobody here is trying to proclaim WiiU is this or that powerful and will easily handle anything in the next 10 years or whatever (because it's unknown, though people like you try to claim the opposite end of course, but anyway) so, no, people calling it next gen aren't having delusional fanboy dreams of grandeur for the system or whatever some claim.
But regardless, that's not what will qualify it as next gen or not. Whether it is or isn't underpowered like the Wii (hell, even if it was an overclocked Wii), whether it gets or doesn't get games and ports you personally want, it's a next gen system that will compete against Sony's and Microsoft's next gen systems, regardless of how any of them will end up doing in the long run. The PS4 could be 10x more powerful than the Nextbox (which could be 10x more powerful than the WiiU), cost $1599 and flop in its first year with no support beyond that and no game that takes full advantage of it at all. All three systems would still be of the same generation.
Anyway, back to Dishonored (on PC, so current gen).
