The invalidation was very subtle, which has caused a lot of confusion. During my talk with Perrin at E3, which we never published because it was extremely short and disjointed and inconclusive, I did ask her about that number and what it meant. As I recall, her answer implied that what she said to Steven Kent (whose article contained the original quote) had been accidentally taken out of context. More likely, Steven was pressuring her to throw out some numerical figure, and she hastily offered "two to three times" without knowing if it is really accurate or how the gaming community would interpret it. My guess, honestly, is that Perrin had seen some Revolution tech demos, and that figure was her personal assessment of how the graphics had improved over GameCube. Perrin is an extremely smart woman, but her field is business, not programming or hardware design. And that is why she and other Nintendo executives have since avoided the numbers game completely, only saying that gamers will be surprised and very satisfied with the Revolution's capabilities. Again, this is all just my assessment of the situation, but I think it's close to the truth.
