| CommunistHater said: E3 will not answer anything. Nintendo will not give performance info. The games will be ambiguous with nothing that will stretch the system. The fanbots will claim it is as powerful as a HD console, and others will be disagreeing with no hard data to back it up. |
I'm not sure I really agree ...
Nintendo will probably not give benchmarks or specs on the CPU or GPU of their system at E3, but they are very likely going to describe the screens they’re using. It is plausible that both screens are going to be (roughly) 480p or better, and I think it is safe to anticipate that it will be able to produce Gamecube or Wii level graphics, which would be a fairly good indication that the system was more powerful than the Wii. If the unexpected happens and the screens are higher resolution it could indicate that the system was approaching the performance of the HD consoles.
With that said, I really wouldn't anticipate a handheld producing games that looked like HD console games even if it was dramatically more powerful than these systems; and the primary reasons are that the sales of (most) handheld games could never recover the development cost, and most of the advanced lighting and texturing effects that are shown on a 60 inch television are difficult (impossible) to see on a 4 inch screen.
