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Old 06-21-2013, 04:46 PM   #199 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SS_Firehawk View Post
Their power PC architecture is still the same, the GPU is based on a 4770. That did change, but their old GPU's were based on ATI chips. The Wii was basically a hotrodded Gamecube with slight improvements. The Wii U only carried over the CPU architecture, but the GPU was a definite improvement.
I was actually being facetious / making a joke, but okay the fact that the CPU architecture stayed the same is exactly why Nintendo can make it backwards compatible. No new issues to deal with the CPU communication!
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