He could indeed be getting misrepresented, Teasy, but the overall thrust of his comments leads one to believe he's not just talking about the kind of performance sway we're used to with consoles, but something else entirely.
...manufacturers are just throwing money at developing higher-performance hardware.
We will rather make a new proposal that uses the GameCube at its core,
Along with the rest, it seems he's advocating almost NO change. A similar stepping-up from from the Cube the way the DS is from the GBA? (And it's receiving mainly a concept change--something that the N5 cannot really get baseline. [But might through peripherals, as other announcements have been advocating.] )
It's hard to see minor changes being enough to let Nintendo last through another generation... It's a very fine line to walk, and something that could make them suffer even more with 3rd party support in the next generation, as if PS3 and Xbox2 raise the stakes enough for developers and outpace a fractional upgrade for N5, even fewer may try to bring their projects to the platform.
Will its ROM format change, and to what? Will it have redesigned chips, or try to use current chips in greater amounts for their desired upgrade? Yamauchi's comments are by nature true, but the extent of them and the way he's phrasing them could fortell too big an underestimation on their part. Concentrating too much on tech can be wasteful (and underused), but underestimating it too much can be very flawed from a marketing standpoint and overshadow other strengths.
Just what is N5 going to look like, and what PS3 and Xbox2--and what will developers be pulling out of each? That's certainly unknown. But from his comments, to me Yamauchi does not appear to be talking about the same things we see now, but something else entirely. Just what that IS...? <shrugs>
...manufacturers are just throwing money at developing higher-performance hardware.
We will rather make a new proposal that uses the GameCube at its core,
Along with the rest, it seems he's advocating almost NO change. A similar stepping-up from from the Cube the way the DS is from the GBA? (And it's receiving mainly a concept change--something that the N5 cannot really get baseline. [But might through peripherals, as other announcements have been advocating.] )
It's hard to see minor changes being enough to let Nintendo last through another generation... It's a very fine line to walk, and something that could make them suffer even more with 3rd party support in the next generation, as if PS3 and Xbox2 raise the stakes enough for developers and outpace a fractional upgrade for N5, even fewer may try to bring their projects to the platform.
Will its ROM format change, and to what? Will it have redesigned chips, or try to use current chips in greater amounts for their desired upgrade? Yamauchi's comments are by nature true, but the extent of them and the way he's phrasing them could fortell too big an underestimation on their part. Concentrating too much on tech can be wasteful (and underused), but underestimating it too much can be very flawed from a marketing standpoint and overshadow other strengths.
Just what is N5 going to look like, and what PS3 and Xbox2--and what will developers be pulling out of each? That's certainly unknown. But from his comments, to me Yamauchi does not appear to be talking about the same things we see now, but something else entirely. Just what that IS...? <shrugs>
