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[nightez]

IBM tells all the design requirements for each of the 3 nex gen consoles

"All of these [companies] are looking for a way to differentiate themselves from each other," said IBM's Su. "What we offered them is sort of a bag of tricks in terms of processor technology ... that they could pull from to differentiate their products."

Microsoft is emphasizing Internet connectivity with its new high-definition Xbox 360, as well as other entertainment features such as the ability to connect to home computers to play music and show movies.

Sony's new PlayStation is expected to introduce a new high-definition DVD technology, called Blu-ray, along with all sorts of ways to connect with other Sony electronics such as MP3 music players and digital cameras.

Nintendo, meanwhile, is sticking fast to the gaming business. It was looking mainly for ways to better display graphics, speed up the processing power of its GameCube successor, and make it more user-friendly, with wireless controller connections and other features.

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/business_24683f4d47fa40d30084.html

 

[Slurpy]

:lol :lol

Very funny/ironic how in that piece Nintendo is the ony one with the goal of increasing gfx.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

i wish that made me feel better about nintendo

 

[djm19]

yeah kinda interesting how they wrote that. Sony must not care about more power! :lol

 

[God's Hand]

I think this confirms Revolution is more powerful than 360 and PS3 combined.

 

[lexi]

So where's that idiot that thought Revolution would be less powerful than Gamecube? :lol

 

[Suite Pee]

All these speculation threads are making my head spin. The Nintendo fanboy in me is rolling in its grave.

 

[Ruzbeh]

I think this confirms Revolution is more powerful than 360 and PS3 combined.

Oh boy. Just when I thought people couldn't get their hopes up and get disappointed again. :lol

 

[Slurpy]

Oh boy. Just when I thought people couldn't get their hopes up and get disappointed again. :lol

You seem to lack the ability to sense sarcasm.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I really want IBM and ATI to leak some stuff in the coming months, its good for business anyway

 

[UltraMagnanimous]

"... for ways to better display graphics"

??

 

[nightez]

I dont dont really want to read too much into that statment.
But what she's saying is Sony and Microsoft were looking into more general purpose processors which are capable of a wide variety of tasks(internet, mp3, dvd, cameras, tivo etc etc.

Yet the goal of the Nintendo processor is simply to improve graphics performance without any other nonesense.

 

[Ruzbeh]

You seem to lack the ability to sense sarcasm.

Sarcasm-detector am not working.

 

[Krowley]

I dont dont really want to read too much into that statment.
But what she's saying is Sony and Microsoft were looking into more general purpose processors which are capable of a wide variety of tasks(internet, mp3, dvd, cameras, tivo etc etc.

Yet the goal of the Nintendo processor is simply to improve graphics performance without any other nonesense.

yeah i'm pretty sure thats what she means too. I don't know enough about processors to say how they would do that though.

 

[puck1337]

Misread the quote.

 

[Drek]

If Nintendo is really just concerned with improving regarding game technology wouldn't it be best to go with a fast workhorse CPU that can run AI and control the overall flow of the system, but then hand off graphics, phsyics, and sound to specific chipsets for each of the three? Since physics chipsets are becoming a reality it'd seem to me like the ideal path to get maximum performance in that area at somewhat minimized costs.

If the dev. environment was done right it'd probably also be super easy to develope on.

 

[Chittagong]

"... for ways to better display graphics"

??

 

[neo2046]

interesting
cannot wait to know how revoluted Nintendo can do

 

[Odysseus]

I think this confirms Revolution is more powerful than 360 and PS3 combined.

Sundayton!

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

REV to be the next Cube next gen .. in terms of cost and power, not sales lol


if nintendo were able to get 3rd party sell their NES/SNES/N64 games on REV, then it will be the MUST have secondary unit for non Nintendo fans

 

[OG_Original Gamer]

I don't understand why so many put weight in Perrin Kaplan words. I have never known her to be qualified enough to comment on a consoles technical capabilities.

 

[Baconäger]

Perrin doesn't even know what type of storage the 512MB in the Revolution is. She said herself that she's not 'Dr. Tech".

 

[SantaC]

Kaplan is clueless. I think Revolution's CPU will atleast be 2 GHZ.

 

[lexi]

Kaplan is clueless. I think Revolution's CPU will atleast be 1.5 GHZ.

Well that's about 3x the Gekko!

/Troll

 

[Slurpy]

Kaplan is clueless. I think Revolution's CPU will atleast be 1.5 GHZ.

Anything under 2.5-3 is unacceptable.

 

[Amir0x]

Anything under 2.5-3 is unacceptable.

Yeah, 1.5Ghz would be fuckin' absurd.

 

[lexi]

Honsetly, even a 1.5ghz Athlon w/ Thunderbird core would still run todays games with decent RAM and GPU.

All this talk of 'Anything less than 3ghz is unacceptable' is bullshit, IMO. This isn't a x86 environment.

PS: plz don't consider this damage control, Amirox knows I'm cool!

 

[Go Go Ackman!]

Anything under 2.5-3 is unacceptable.

You've made my ignore list, you little turd.

 

[mj1108]

I don't understand why so many put weight in Perrin Kaplan words. I have never known her to be qualified enough to comment on a consoles technical capabilities.

The Nintendo haters are the ones who latched onto the quote and tried to have a field day with it.

 

[SantaC]

Well that's about 3x the Gekko!

/Troll

oops yeah gekko is 485, I should have said atleast 2 GHZ :/

 

[fortified_concept]

You've made my ignore list, you little turd.

Why? 2.5-3.0 is a pretty reasonable number.

 

[Moegames]

Who ever thinks Nintendo will come out with the most visually stunning graphics is just kidding themselves. Heck..you can only put so much under such a little flat box

 

[Slurpy]

You've made my ignore list, you little turd.

:lol :lol :lol
I hope you have thicker skin in dealing with real issues.

 

[midnightguy]

Gekko Turbo will be 970 MHz



^ that was a joke