| Squilliam said: They would have to expend a lot of resources on both the hardware and the software. Why not use something which already works? Its not like they can keep the current GPU for another generation anyway and the processor in the 360 is in the PowerPC lineage as well.
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What happens when Microsoft's agreement with ATI expires and ATI no longer will manufacture the XBox 360's GPU? Nintendo is a company that will not use a peice of hardware unless they have full manufacturing rights to, or unless there are multiple suppliers, in order to prevent the situation which killed the XBox.
Nintendo designs their own hardware because it suits their vision of what software Nintendo wants to produce ... It is possible that Nintendo might see value in a system similar to the XBox 360 in the next generation, but it is also entierly possible that they will want to return to the price to performace position that the Gamecube filled in the previous generation and the XBox 360 would fall far short of that goal.
