fazz on 24 January 2010
2012 would be much more likely, considering the Wii's success... as for the hardware, lets assume that Nintendo will stick with ATi for their next console.
They could go with a cheap chip, let's say, a RV850, which on a card like the Radeon HD5670 sells for around $100 bucks at retail, and with a profit for everyone (the shop, ATi, the card manufacturer...). A card like that is way above both current "HD" consoles in terms of sheer power, memory, bandwidth, what not. Even better, it would be able to pull out Wii/GC software emulation without effort.
Even with a chip like that, Nintendo would be able to get a profit from every console sold... even if they released it right now and not in 2 years, they would be able to.
