Myamoto Interview at Ign

[mech]

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

What's to twist? SG put it best:

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?

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?

Good to see plenty of fact and no opinion or f@nboy bias in this post

How about Nintendo's claim that the Nintendo 64 would be more powerful than a Silicon Graphics workstation? Or how they called it "Project Reality"?

You don't think that was hype? There goes your "past history" case.

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.

Okay, so you're saying if Nintendo names their processors with cool names, THEIR performance will be good, but not other companies?

That's just as bad, if not worse!

So if they're NOT planning on releasing good hardware, what do they do? Give it a crap name?

 

[PC-Engine]

The N64 was about the same level as PS1 wasn't it? Haha indeed.

 

[mech]

What does that have to do with anything?

 

[PC-Engine]

What does that have to do with anything?

Everything. Since you said Nintendo hyped up the N64, well they hyped it up but they match the competiton.

Fast forward to next gen where they're hyping Broadway and Hollywood will result in matching the competition (PS3 and X360).

 

[mech]

Dude, they said it would obliterate PS1. They said it would have Silicon Graphics quality images. They hyped the hell out of it and totally overestimated what it would be. How does that help your case? Is this what you always do when you lose an argument - change the topic?

Why not just be gracious and admit it was a silly statement to make?

 

[PC-Engine]

Nintendo is different, they usually do not HYPE their performance either through dumbass names like Emotion Engine or 66 Million Polys/sec.

As far as I know the processors in the N64 were equivalent to a single node personal SGI workstation at the time.

The only person who's losing the argument is you.