Will Super Wii have Direct X11 level graphics

[LordTheNightKnight]

Khuutra said:

Squilliam said:

Khuutra said:
That's fair... but I think in a few more years, $300 may be the mass market price.

But, as you pointed out, technology is getting cheaper so fast that inflation can't really keep up - you could be right concerning the future price of the console, and still see it kicking the crap out of the PS3 and 360 in terms of horsepower.

That more depends on their thermal budget rather than their console price budget. The HD consoles still consume over 100W at the wall and they wouldn't be likely at all to go over 40W.

I really don't know what sort of thing determines that I'm sorry to say, but wouldn't the thermal budget for the ssame level of horsepower increase significantly over time too?

It's related to chip build. That thing about 90mn (assuming nanometers, but not sure what that's measuring) being the launch size for the chips on all the consoles, then going down to 65nm, with 45nm being the ideal. If that goes down even further, a 3.2ghz processor is not out of the question, but if not, Nintendo might do a slower multicore processor.

That's just a guess, though.

On a related note, 1GB of RAM is possible, but still another guess.