Revolution GPU and CPU STILL in development.
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So why don't you enlighten us then?....
Who said anything about PS3? Being as powerful as 360's CPU and as powerful as PS3's CPU are two very different things.
What I expect for Revolutions CPU is that it will have similar raw power to 360's (within 10-15%) but a bit more efficient.
Won't these figures appear on Nintendo financials? At least RnD expenditure for the year. Though I guess spread over several years, including handheld RnD, we'll probably never know how much they spent.
Given the packaging that Nintendo seem to be going for, I would suggest that they are either aiming much later than XB360/PS3, or they are aiming for much lower heat levels.
If we assume it's the later it's a pretty fair bet thet they get there with lower clocks and less transistors. In the CPU/GPU world that generally doesn't add up to the same power no matter how much more time you've invested.
Having said that IF Nintendo were to target say 480P instead of 720P that's 1/3 of the pixels so they could probably produce comparable imagery albeit at lower resolution.
If we assume it's the later it's a pretty fair bet thet they get there with lower clocks and less transistors. In the CPU/GPU world that generally doesn't add up to the same power no matter how much more time you've invested.
Having said that IF Nintendo were to target say 480P instead of 720P that's 1/3 of the pixels so they could probably produce comparable imagery albeit at lower resolution.
That's not enlightening.. As I said if you know something about how long Broadway has been in development and how much focus its had then lets hear it.
Clearly we're not talking about "in the real world". We're talking about the specs game.
Its good that I don't have high expectations then.
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I'm thinking Nintendo may use liquid metal cooling from Nanocooler. Its boiling point is 2000 C. It also has a small form factor.
http://www.nanocoolers.com/technology_liquid.php
http://www.nanocoolers.com/technology_liquid.php
the analogy for the cars and ammount of people doesnt work when you have 200 dumb people and 5 geniuses.. 
I would prefer geniuses, a lot of money and time spent combined.. just because you have a lot of cooks making a supper doesn't mean it will be tastier, in fact it would be messier! -.^
I just wish the nice looking ps3 controller (for real, its beautiful after seeing a few pictures) should or hopefully have the "assumed" or rumoured plans that the nintendo controller seem to have, the gryroscopes. that would be amazing, anyway nintendo got it so thats cool.. I'll get ps3 and then revolution!
I would prefer geniuses, a lot of money and time spent combined.. just because you have a lot of cooks making a supper doesn't mean it will be tastier, in fact it would be messier! -.^I just wish the nice looking ps3 controller (for real, its beautiful after seeing a few pictures) should or hopefully have the "assumed" or rumoured plans that the nintendo controller seem to have, the gryroscopes.
that would be amazing, anyway nintendo got it so thats cool.. I'll get ps3 and then revolution! IBM on the revolution processor
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/business_24683f4d47fa40d30084.html
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/business_24683f4d47fa40d30084.html
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Yeah I saw this on GA, its strange though reading it. To be honest, the comment in USAtoday from Perrin Kaplan, I'd take it with a grain of salt. I've never read any other articles that has shown her to be tech savy.
Coming up with the idea to put a gyroscope in a controller is not difficult. Years ago I thought it would make a neat add on for a game boy. The difficult part is finding ways to use it that aren't gimmicky. So yes, it comes back to the games.PC-Engine said:If PS3 controller has gyro then we definitely know who copied who in the console space.
In a related note some laptops already contain gyroscopes. I saw someone wrote a program that uses the hard drive parking feature of recent Apple laptops so you can control games by tilting the laptop.
http://laptops.engadget.com/entry/1234000680037005/
They don't need to match XCPUs performance in my opinion. How many developers will have the talent to use 115 GFLOPS of power for physics and AI? How many of them will have the talent and the money to do it? Nintendo just need a processor that's about 70% the power of 360's processor with more cache memory and on IBM's new 65nm process. A 2.2Ghz triple core Power5 would do it, or a quad core 1.65Ghz. It would have enough physics/AI power for 99.9% of next gen games even direct ports from 360. In fact I doubt any games moving from 360 to Revolution would get any really noticeable drop in AI/physics with that setup.
Then they just need a similar GPU to 360's perhaps with a couple of newer added features and clocked at a lower speed, say 400Mhz (with 10MB 1t-sram-q). Add 448-512MB of 1t-Sram-q for main ram and you'd have a system thats easily close enough to 360 so that even ports can look and play virtually identical.
Then they just need a similar GPU to 360's perhaps with a couple of newer added features and clocked at a lower speed, say 400Mhz (with 10MB 1t-sram-q). Add 448-512MB of 1t-Sram-q for main ram and you'd have a system thats easily close enough to 360 so that even ports can look and play virtually identical.
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