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Mnementh on 08 February 2016
Alejandro_ said:
I think the NX will be more powerful than PS4, using AMD instead of PowerPC. That would be great, specially for thirds.

 You seem to mingle architecture and power together. A PowerPC-CPU can be more powerful or less powerful than an x86 or x64 CPU. Has nothing to do with architecture. Second AMD could license PowerPC and build them themself (didn't do it as far as I know though).



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JEMC on 08 February 2016
Alejandro_ said:
I think the NX will be more powerful than PS4, using AMD instead of PowerPC. That would be great, specially for thirds.

Unfortunately, AMD being the provider doesn't guarantee anything. After all, PS4 and X1 also use AMD products.

 

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Jumpin on 08 February 2016

So to sum up the rumour: An unnamed dev studio doesn't have an NX dev kit.



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Pavolink on 08 February 2016
Lawlight said:
Puppyroach said:
I the NX is on the same level as PS4/X1, I can only imagine what kind of games Nintendo can produce :).

What kind? :)

More 2D games.



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Miyamotoo on 08 February 2016
Mnementh said:
Alejandro_ said:
I think the NX will be more powerful than PS4, using AMD instead of PowerPC. That would be great, specially for thirds.

 You seem to mingle architecture and power together. A PowerPC-CPU can be more powerful or less powerful than an x86 or x64 CPU. Has nothing to do with architecture. Second AMD could license PowerPC and build them themself (didn't do it as far as I know though).

NX will have ARM or x86 or both (ARM for handheld and x86 for home console), it will not have PowerPC.



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noname2200 on 08 February 2016
Jumpin said:
So to sum up the rumour: An unnamed dev studio doesn't have an NX dev kit.

But they totes want one!



bunchanumbers on 08 February 2016

uhh I think the only thing that this really shows is that they don't have a dev kit. Great leak though! Its enough to sound like it could be something, but tells nothing.



Mnementh on 10 February 2016
Miyamotoo said:
Mnementh said:

 You seem to mingle architecture and power together. A PowerPC-CPU can be more powerful or less powerful than an x86 or x64 CPU. Has nothing to do with architecture. Second AMD could license PowerPC and build them themself (didn't do it as far as I know though).

NX will have ARM or x86 or both (ARM for handheld and x86 for home console), it will not have PowerPC.

 ARM or x86 would be my guess too, but the poster before spoke on 'AMD instead of PowerPC', which lead to my reply. I think ARM is a good scaling architecture for both handheld and console with future. But whatever, Nintendo-devs probably tried all possibilities.



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Miyamotoo on 10 February 2016
Mnementh said:
Miyamotoo said:

NX will have ARM or x86 or both (ARM for handheld and x86 for home console), it will not have PowerPC.

 ARM or x86 would be my guess too, but the poster before spoke on 'AMD instead of PowerPC', which lead to my reply. I think ARM is a good scaling architecture for both handheld and console with future. But whatever, Nintendo-devs probably tried all possibilities.

Yes, ARM would be pretty good, also Iwata said they want architecture that will use in next generations too.