Twistedpixel on 10 March 2010
The next generation hardware probably won't be exciting at all. Since content drives them, they'll want a system which can allow them to produce content as cheaply and as quickly as possible and prototype games years in advance. So what will a Wii 2 look like?
1. It'll have an X86 out of order execution CPU.
- Because its much faster to prototype/compile and they can start game production on off the shelf hardware.
- Because they want to maximise the number of developers small and big which can make use of it, especially emerging countries developers who may produce very innovative content.
- It has some of the very best power management of any CPU out there.
- The Wii concept is similar to a mouse.
2. It'll have a combined CPU/GPU with embedded ram.
- Bandwidth is expensive, it costs more energy moving data in modern chips than it does doing the calcuations, also saves board complexity/size.
- The GPU is the most important component for making clean looking HD content and they'll want performance here if they want to implement 3D.
- AMD will be able to offer this within a year.
3. The media is irrelevant. If it works, cheaply, they will use it.
Yawn. But there you have it.
Do you know what its like to live on the far side of Uranus?
