| bdbdbd said: @Haxxiy: If i'm not mistaken, it runs cool for being so big. I can't see that being a dumb move - 360 has the same chip in practice and PPE in PS3 shouldn't be that different. |
Maybe. The standard CBE has 300 million transistors so that was as big as GPUs back then.
And perhaps it can look like a dumb move now. Back when Nintendo was risking to launch a new console with minimal improvements and revolutionary controls, besides then selling at profit they needed also fidelity from the GC's userbase to assure they would have no loss and a pre-set userbase. So indeed the Wii was planned pretty much like a 'canon fodder' - if it outsells every other console, nice and good. If does not, at least they were making profit.
But now that Wii stands on its two legs it does not look so smart after all. It could be getting 80% of userbase instead of 50% if at least was strong enough to handle PS360 multiplats with similar graphics/gameplay.
