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Well known hacked Marcan, who played a part in hacking the PS3, has found out the clock speeds of the Wii U. It’s surprising how slow it is, and I’m actually having troubles even thinking Nintendo went with something like that. It’s a well known fact that the PS3 Cell and Xbox 360 Xenon run at 3.0 GHZ each per core, but the Wii U CPU runs at 1.243125 GHz per core.

“It’s a Three PowerPC 750 type cores (similar to Wii’s Broadway, but more cache),” tweeted Marcan.

One interesting thing he has revealed is that the Wii U is easier to hack similar to the Wii. He tweeted that they’re “calling the WiiU security processor the Starbuck (vs. Starlet on Wii). And it seems to be about equally vulnerable, too.”

He has also revealed the GPU speed of the Wii U, which runs at 549.999755MHz.

Now these are quite lower than the ones found in the PS3 and Xbox 360, and I honestly can’t believe what I’m reading here.

Most third-party games so far on the Wii U have been professionally examined to be running slower than its PS3 and Xbox 360 counterparts. Games like Black Ops 2, Mass Effect 3 and even Batman: Arkham City have problems when it comes to maintaining a steady framerate.

We will keep you updated once we hear more.