WiiGeePeeYou (Hollywood) what IS it ?

I don't recall it ever going to have 8MB of embedded 1T-SRAM, and I followed it very closely from the beginning.

 

Except you're not buying a GPU for your PC. You're buying a whole machine, a controller, access to Connect24, Virtual Console, and the ability to play Wii games. Good luck finding a better gaming package for $200.

 

TeamXbox still has the interview in it's entirety.

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=447382

First post.

 

Graphics: Roughly somewhere between an x1400 and x1600
CPU: Roughly somewhere between an AXP 2400 and AXP 3000
Memory: Clocked at 650 MHz
EDRAM: 2MB frame/2 MB Z/4 MB texture
Geometry engine: Fully programmable
Pipelines: "double" gamecube.
Features: Can do 8xAF, 4xAA, normal/bump mapping, and self-shadowing
Physics: Some workload can be shifted to the GPU

 

My question is how do we relate what was shown at E3 on Wii SDKs with the proposed GPU specs? Doesn't look to me like devs are targetting x1400 level. Have Nintendo basically had no idea what level graphics performance they would provide and just said to their devs 'stick with GC+ for now and we'll let you know what the hardware will really be capable of 6 months before it's released'?

 

This has playable demos, with 2 weeks old HW that is said (by Ubi, see gamespot) to be just as base from Wii HW (or something like).

Anyway it happened with MS in playable games last year E3.

 

Dont know but I saw that in other forum , it is just to comfirm.

 

Yes, althought not long ago, really at the time I didnt bother with it, meybe just a coincidence....

 

It's from Matt of IGN: He said 2MB texture cache 1MB frame buffer or vice versa. Thus 3MB eDRAM

 

The question is, if that interview is indeed real, why doesn't a single Wii game show graphics that are adequate for such a hardware?

 

Again XB360 playable demos from E305...

BTW I saw here that isnt the first time that XavierPoix break NDAs, is it real?

Actually if Xenus is really in the level of X1800-X1900 given the benches of them (eg B3D) it should be able to play more or less the same given 1/3 the rez.

 

That was me that said that. I didn't mean outright break NDA's, but from what I've heard he likes to skirt them.

 

well he did a bit more than skirt one this time apparently, ubisoft emailed me demanding it be removed, and im not about to do that, so i changed the parts that wouldve broken an NDA. It doesnt matter and i still have the interview, the word is out there, over 200 thousand hits since fearsome posted it here, with ~6 - 7k being direct clicks on that post =)

 

Can't deny if I was in his position I'd do the same.

Then I'd get a nice chewing from my superiors and have Iwata scream at me in Japanese.

Damn I want to be in the thick of it, making games and being screamed at by Japanese men.

 

LOL. yea they wont admit that it happened, they have already denied it in emails to people, but nobody from the paris branch has done so nor has there been a public denial (expect one of those soon though if this picks up any more steam) I didnt forsee it becoming this big of a deal, and apparently ubisoft doesnt like the position they are now in.