Did Nintendo just Dreamcast the PSP2?

[joeorc]

Squilliam said:

joeorc said:

those day's are over..

3RD party EXCLUSIVES are pretty much a thing of the past.

it's not about loosing it's about you have to convince the 3rd party to go exclusive IE: some compensation!

Nintendo rarely does that an why should they their 1st party does great. without that

think about this The Wii is the only system that was not multi-core processor that means their game engines were not designed toward Multi-core thus already Sony and Microsoft has done just that multi-core development. not to say Nintendo has not done some but this point forward the Game engine's were the big expense some taking over 4 year's to make. that was one of the big expenses this generation , though next generation most likely be just as expensive but no moreso than this generation.

the Wii on the other hand was the cheapest , next generation not so much so. that mean's there is no Multi-core Wii game engine's yes they can make them. but both sony an Microsoft already have them.

And since Nintendo does not make their own CPU chip's they have to go to other's Say Intel?

almost all INTEL CPU's are CPU/GPU hybrid chip's for Embeded devices. which Game console's are. they went with IBM this time..even IBM are CPU/GPU chip's AMD, Freescale..etc.

that going to be a main problem..the Wii next replacement is going to have to overcome.

Multicore programming has come a long way since 2005. There are numerous off the shelf tools to make things easier which simply didn't exist back then and programmer familiarity is many orders of magnitude higher. Furthermore there are numerous off the shelf parts which outpace the current DX9 consoles in power efficiency, cost and performance like for instance the Ontario processor from AMD on 40nm TSMC which includes a reasonably strong GPU and a 4 core out of order X86 processor within a 25W thermal envelope.

and those very same processor's are still expensive for the consumer. after you package..Nintendo will not be able to gain a big tech advantage over the xbox360 or the PS3 between now and 2011 without it costing an arm and a leg to the consumer without eating heavy cost's.

something Nintendo has a history in not doing.