3DS uses DMP's PICA(R)200 chip

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Khuutra said:

richardhutnik said:

alfredofroylan said:

This's the video used as a presentation of this chip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-xxUyJvQQ

According to GAF this's below GC but above Dreamcast with low power consumption and quite cheap, so can we guess something below 200 for the price?

If i understand correctly the PSP is somewhere between a Playstation and a PS2 as far as power goes.  So, it looks like the 3DS is more powerful than the PSP.... excluding the 3D.  Considering the size of the 3DS screen, it likely will get near GC level as far as graphics go.

In terms of appearance it should be kind of like the Gamecube if every developer had known how to use TEV shaders. So we could see a lot of games that look as good as Rogue Leader! Which is frightening.

I'm going to say that people can make better looking games than that on the 3DS since there is still only a tiny fraction of devs that know how to use the TEV but a lot that can do OpenGL in their sleep.