3DS a very powerful, capable handheld.

[PhalanxCO]

puffy said:

thekitchensink said:

.jayderyu said:

And the delusions of GC graphics continue to persist.

The PSP has almost-PS2-quality graphics, and it came out how many years ago?  Are you aware how long ago that is in technological terms?  Gamecube is on the lower end of what they could feasibly do.

This is true, I don't understand the whole 'It's Nintendo, it'll have weak hardware' mentality.. Gamecube tech will be 10 years old, perhaps older when you consider what it was based on..

Also IF the 3DS has two 3D screens, not likely but possible, it will have a higher total resolution than the iPhone 4, iPad and Wii. It'll be 0.82mp, 720p is 0.92mp. That kind of output would need serious power. (Again that is unlikely) but you can see that power will be needed, one 3D screen or two.

Here's why:

Many devs complain that the Wii isn't very powerful because 'it can not do shader effects... blah blah blah'. This is complete bull crap. It can indeed do shader effects. However, it does them completely differently than most developers want it to be done. Therefore, rather than take some time to learn new ways of doing things, they blow the whole system off without a second thought.

Now, if the 3DS used a more common GPU architecture with the shader functions developers are used to, they might falsely believe it is more powerful than the Wii.