WiiGeePeeYou (Hollywood) what IS it ?

To be honest there's nothing awesome about using high latency memory (if they have done).

 

Eh? Isn't GDDR3 really good memory?

 

Depending of the use, in this case it is bad for the CPU dont know about the GPU (as flipper is also used to low latency).

 

Thank god Wii isn't using GDDR3, yeah I know what faf said I even asked him about it myself. From what I gathered those were in the old specs that people have been releasing since whatever. Rock solid source says the current system is all mosys, don't, know what type

 

Thats what i've been thinking. The low latency, and a combination of high latency memory just doesn't seem very efficient.

 

from whose POV? ; )

a combination of (realtively) high and low latencies is how memory systems have been devised ever since, well, genesis. or in our case since people realised you can't have the escalibur of low latency memory all across the board and not go bancrupt in a product cycle.

'thou shalt create a cascading hierarchy of increasing-latency, increasing-volume memory and thou shalt use smart promoting and demoting schemes for thy data to move across'
-- Coreinthians 13:31

 

I thought Hollywood has been confirmed using 1T-SRAM?

 

I can see why you might think that because GDDR3 is often used at very high bandwidths in a lot of current graphics cards ect, where as 1T-Sram usually has more modest speeds. But really it all comes down how fast you run the memory and what kind of bus you use, 1T-Sram can run faster then GDDR3 and vica-versa. If you setup both memory types at the same speed (same bandwidth) 1T-Sram would be quite a bit faster as system memory, due to the fact that 1T-Sram has a latency of only about 10ns, while GDDR3 is more like 30ns. GDDR3 is really designed as video memory, where latency has a much lesser effect on performance.

 

There's a new Elebits trailer on gamevideos.com. Thought it might be interesting because the game has been discussed in this thread.

The graphics look nice but rather simple. No material that supports amazing secret Hollywood power.

 

dunno about you, but i personally found the model (manami ute) quite satisfactory : ))

 

Yeah, she's the definition of cute, but she's clearly prerendered CG!

 

i think the phrase you are looking for is "Rendered to spec". Elebits is looking good, and it's no longer the graphical embarrassment (target render compared to realtime) it once was.

 

Something tells me that the Wii can achieve target renders, but the short development time for Red Steel seemed to have hampered it from going to that level. Pokemon Battle Online being one, too.

Some new footage from Wii Sports proves that Wii can do all those kinds of fancy lighting effects from the target renders:
http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/740/740776/wii-sports-20061020011942026.jpg

 

Anyone know how much RAM is dedicated to graphics for each console?



Also, do you guys think that Nintendo's next console will be as powerful as 360/PS3?

 

On PS3 is 256Mgs but the RSX can also use the Rambus (also 256Mgs) and the Cell use the GDDR3. On XB360 it is up to the devs and on the Wii (so the rumors says) it is also up to the devs.

No, we almost think that if we are lucky we may get the level of the RS E3 trailer later in the console life cicle.

 

I think he actually means the Nintendo console after Wii..

 

I think that depending on how well Nintendo does this generation i.e. finishing 1st or 2nd place will be more aggressive with their HW next time, possibly as powerful as PS4 and X-Box 720.

However the next Nintendo console will have to be as powerful as PS3 and 360, I don't think people would accept anything less.

 

Hehe. Exactly. Come on now, even I know where Wii stands here.

I'm hoping it's true. What I'm worried about is if Nintendo succeeds on the Wii, they may feel the need to not bother upgrading even by 360/PS3 level. I mean, if it's successfull so far, why go that high next time, right?

 

nintendo are playing a non-lose-on-hw game here, not a retro hw game. nintendo are basically doing what ken (IIRC) once said he wanted to see sce doing - not lose on hw. that game dictates that you release on the market whatever hw can hit the target price range without capital losses; it's about how good you are at the given budget.

 

I can totally see that happening as well. Frankly I'm quite afraid of that happening.

While I haven't been that impressed by the graphics thus far by 360 and I don't really care about graphics as much as I once did, I really just want "clean" graphics i.e. AA, AFx16 and no pixely/blurry textures.