Myamoto Interview at Ign

[Shifty Geezer]

Oh God, here he goes... He never answers a bloody question. He always says 'Go back and read' or 'if you don't know, you never will'.

Are you a politican PCE? Why can't you just answer a straight question? Why do you think the chips' names implies they'll be powerful?

 

[London Geezer]

Are you a politican PCE? Why can't you just answer a straight question?

He can only answer gay questions.

 

[DuckThor Evil]

If the cpu and gpu are named Broadway and Hollywood, then it will likely be quite powerful.

Ok...
I think they are going to be powerful, because they are new tech by Ati and IBM, which aren't even ready yet, not because they have "cool" names.

edit: I think that's signature material right there.

 

[hey69]

honda....

 

[mech]

If you mean they're named after areas of Movie Studios and Musical Theatres, that means they'll be powerful...

Wierd logic. Maybe Sony or MS can increase the performance of their processors by calling them 'Bollywood' and 'West End'? :?

Exactly.

PC-Engine may think he's clever and smart and I'm missing the point, but the fact remains:

If I say I'm going to release a chip and call it "Savage 3D" or "3D Blaster" or even "Emotion Engine", for example, even though they have aggressive and fast sounding names it doesn't mean they're all that.

Saying that "If the cpu and gpu are named Broadway and Hollywood, then it will likely be quite powerful" is just a hilarious statement to make.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

If the cpu and gpu are named Broadway and Hollywood, then it will likely be quite powerful.

If...condition...result. What PCE has clearly stated is that the naming convention is going to influence the performance of the components. there's no other way to read it. That's why we're all confused and that's we'd like like PC-Engine to explain. Maybe he meant something else and just wrote it wrong? Or does he really believe the names of components shows the potential, in which case what of the Emotion Engine or RSX?

 

[mech]

Thanks SG, you articulated it perfectly.

 

[PC-Engine]

Shigeru Miyamoto: We have not sent out development kits to developers yet. However, development kits for the Nintendo Revolution are very similar to the ones for the GameCube. So we feel that the environments are so similar that they will be able to start development very quickly upon receiving the development kits for Revolution.

I'm crossing my fingers for a RE5 on Revolution.

If the cpu and gpu are named Broadway and Hollywood, then it will likely be quite powerful.

If...condition...result. What PCE has clearly stated is that the naming convention is going to influence the performance of the components. there's no other way to read it. That's why we're all confused and that's we'd like like PC-Engine to explain. Maybe he meant something else and just wrote it wrong? Or does he really believe the names of components shows the potential, in which case what of the Emotion Engine or RSX?

Ok I've had my fun so I think I'll elaborate now. This is basically how I see it you can agree or disagree. Nintendo has already chosen the names for the cpu and gpu even though the chips aren't yet finished. They could've chosen any arbitrary name, but they didn't. They specifically chose Broadway and Hollywood. They've already set a high goal and made a promise, by naming these chips. Broadway/Hollywood is entertainment, movie magic, special FX. If the cpu and gpu end up being underpowered then Nintendo's reputation will take a nose dive due to the fact they hyped up the Broadway and Hollywood chips. BTW I did say most likely. I didn't say If...then...will. Also this only applys to Nintendo's specific situation and it wasn't intended to be some kind of rule of thumb.

 

[Andy]

They specifically chose Broadway and Hollywood. They've already set a high goal and made a promise, by naming these chips. Broadway/Hollywood is entertainment, movie magic, special FX.

The average casual gamer aint gonna know and or care about the name of the CPU and GPU in Rev. They'll buy it cause they: 1) love nintendo and their products and games, 2) want something different to PS3 and Xbox360, 3) intend to buy all consoles anyway, 4) something other that what i've stated here, 5) all the above.

What makes you think the name of the CPU and GPU makes a promise of how powerful it will be? By that logic shouldn't we take the names literally then? If we take it too literally is the CPU gonna start writing scripts for Musicals? Hear that? My new nintendo console plays RENT!

 

[Shifty Geezer]

BTW I did say most likely. I didn't say If...then...will.

I beg to differ

I will say this. If the cpu and gpu are named Broadway and Hollywood, then it will likely be quite powerful.

Your words, unless someone's edited your post.

As to your reasoning, you're placing a lot of faith in Nintendo. Sony have given us the Emotion Engine but that didn't really live up to it's namesake. No-one's expecting the Reality Synthesizer or whatever RSX is to actually synthesize reality. And what history does Nintendo have of producing hardware that lives up to codenames? How apt was 'Gekko'?!

 

[Chandler]

and the fact gamecube was dolphin but ecco never even made it to the cube

 

[SedentaryJourney]

Well PC-E did say "it will likely be quite powerful", meaning he believes the names imply a likelihood for cinematic effects and all that jazz. Mech's point is a name isn't exactly a hard and fast indicator of anything, and more often than not, just buzz. Now let's all be diplomatic and not try to paint each other as ignorant.

 

[Geeforcer]

Wow, so we are now at the point where relative power of microchips can be inferred from their codenames. Lovely. It seems clear to me that PCE, being Nintendo fan extraordinaire, lets logic get away from him from time to time.

 

[mech]

Ok I've had my fun so I think I'll elaborate now. This is basically how I see it you can agree or disagree. Nintendo has already chosen the names for the cpu and gpu even though the chips aren't yet finished. They could've chosen any arbitrary name, but they didn't. They specifically chose Broadway and Hollywood. They've already set a high goal and made a promise, by naming these chips. Broadway/Hollywood is entertainment, movie magic, special FX. If the cpu and gpu end up being underpowered then Nintendo's reputation will take a nose dive due to the fact they hyped up the Broadway and Hollywood chips. BTW I did say most likely. I didn't say If...then...will. Also this only applys to Nintendo's specific situation and it wasn't intended to be some kind of rule of thumb.

You've had your fun? Could you have been any more transparent?

Dude, in case you haven't noticed, plenty of people pick "arbitrary" names for their chips that sound good. That has no indication on how good their chips are. Making it sound good is part of PR. That's the point I was making in my post, in case you missed it. Oh and a name is not a promise I mean really, what were you thinking when you posted that?

Nintendo's reputation has already taken a nosedive after the last few generations, you think because the threat of their reputation going down further they wouldn't dare name their chips the way they did unless they're kick-arse? Did you not hear N64's chips' codenames? Have you not heard Nintendo's arrogance lately?

Regarding your wording.. so you're saying BECAUSE they named the chips the names they did they WILL be awesome?

 

[SoVos20]

What does make logical sense is the FACT that Revolution GPU will be in development YEARS longer then any other, which should imply that it won't be weaker.

 

[mech]

Just because it was in development longer doesn't make it more powerful.

Just look at NV30

 

[SedentaryJourney]

We know it's smaller; this means it generates less heat than Xbox 360 and PS3, and could indicate lower clock speed or smaller die size.

 

[SoVos20]

Just because it was in development longer doesn't make it more powerful.

Just look at NV30

It is being developed by the same company and with a better team of that company.

 

[mckmas8808]

Look its obvious that Nintendo is looking to be a strong number 2. They have chosen that MS and Sony will fight to be in the same market and Nintendo has decided that they will slide to number 2 behind either MS or Sony. That want to be the second system in everybody's house.

That now people are going to buy either a X360 or PS3. Nintendo wants people to say "well zelda next gen looks kinda cool, I going to get the Rev also".
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[PC-Engine]

You people need to stop twisting things around and assuming certain statements mean certain things that was not in my post.

First of all comparing the current names for the cpu and gpu to some stupid Emotion Engine makes no sense at all. Which idiot brought up these dumbass analogies??? KK is a master BSer and SONY are the gods of HYPE, so yeah DUH Emotion Engine means SQUAT. OTOH Nintendo is different, they usually do not HYPE their performance either through dumbass names like Emotion Engine or 66 Million Polys/sec. Based on this observation, their choice of using Broadway and Hollywood for the cpu and gpu is a HINT that indicates a benchmark that needs to be met by their design team. It's not likely to be hype as it's coming from Nintendo. Remember the 12 million polys/sec number for GCN?

Also if you go back a carefully read what I said:

is only applys to Nintendo's specific situation and it wasn't intended to be some kind of rule of thumb.

If you can't understand that then go ahead and pretend I said, cool names = more power in any console. Only an idiot would believe that and only a bigger idiot would assume I meant that.

There's a difference between making a bold statement without taking anything into consideration vs a statement based on past history. I bet mech is feeling really smart now.