Anyone recall that interview with Microsoft's Robbie Bach in which he revealed the company would start profiting on the Xbox soonish? Well, in part three of that Q&A, Bach downplayed the Wii's graphical capabilities, claiming it doesn't "have the graphics horsepower that even Xbox 1 had." Oh, yes he did.

Well, Newsweek's N'Gai Croal decided to root out some details from his developer contacts and see how accurate Bach was in his evaluation. The two consoles, despite featuring similar CPU and GPU clockspeeds with Wii sporting more RAM, are closer in horsepower than you might think. The reason? The Wii's fixed feature GPU.

While a definitive answer won't be found, Croal writes Bach is "darned close to the mark." Read on for more in-depth investigation. Michael McWhertor

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