Harada: Wii U CPU clock is “kinda low”, Tekken “coming along quite rapidly”
Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada believes that the Wii U’s CPU clock speed “is kinda low”. It may even be “a little bit” lower than that of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Those comments might not elicit the most positive thoughts about the Wii U, but Harada did say that “graphical processing and such” haven’t been problematic.
Speaking about the Wii U’s CPU, Harada commented.
“I think maybe the game is coming along smoother than most people would think, as far as the look of the game. As far as graphical processing and such, it’s not much of an issue. But as far as the CPU goes, the clock is kinda low. I guess they’re trying to keep power consumption down so we have to come up with creative ways to get around that and that’s taking a little bit of time.”
Harada was then asked if the CPU is lower than that of the Xbox or PS3.
He responded:
“Maybe a little bit. For example on PS3 it was kind of difficult at first, but if you made good use of the different cores, you could split up the processing tasks and you could achieve very good effects. But this is kind of a different issue than that.”
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 for Wii U is “coming along quite rapidly”, according to Harada. He also said that it isn’t “far behind” the Xbox 360 or PS3 versions.
Regarding a release date, Harada is hoping it’ll be out “as close as possible” to the other versions.
