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Squilliam on 02 January 2009
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Mr Khan said:
Squilliam said:
I am personally interested in whatever technology they use to reach their performance and packaging requirements. The technology and design of the Wii HD will be interesting because above all else it must be power efficient. Theres the fact that they will probably need to use a conventional architecture for the GPU for the first time and that makes me wonder if they will use something like an all AMD system with what is essentially a tweaked laptop CPU+GPU combination.

Its unfortunate that car journalists will give a 10 page brief to some me-too sports car but barely spend 3 pages on the technology inside the most important car in the world, the Corolla where 100x the people will buy and use the vehicle. In a way Nintendo is following the lead of other Japanese companies in that real people, your typical every day people are important to them and you can see it in the care they put into their "boring" car ranges.

 

I believe Nintendo has renewed their contract with IBM and ATI, and if i had to make a bet, the Wii HD is going to be very similar to the Xbox 360 in terms of architecture (multicore PowerPC based CPU), if slightly more powerful (same CPU clock, say, but with 1 GB of RAM instead of 512 MB)

If you want to see the future of Nintendo consoles, though, look at the DSi. I've said that the DSi is a "half-generation upgrade," and thus is a rare glimpse into how Nintendo plans to upgrade their "disruptor" generation of platforms

Do you have a link handy for the IBM + ATI development? If not thats fine, im just interested.

I prefer the "Phaser" theory about Nintendo market strategy over the "Disrupter" theory. To be quite frank I distrust the proponents of "Disrupter" theory and question their motives. But I can see how they would benifit from releasing an updated Wii.

They could these with an updated Wii+:

  • Incorperate Wii motion + into the console
  • Include HDMI output and build in a scaler chip to give better images on HD TVs
  • Increase the ram/flash storage to allow for faster loading and a wider range of services to be offered on the system.

I call it my *3 I* theory or *iii* for short..

 

 



Tease.