| Squilliam said: Yay I get to go first and I love speculating on hardware. My best guess is something like this: RAM: 1024 MB of GDDR 5 this will probably yield around 50-80GB/S bandwidth. The best balance between cost/performance is around that level and it follows the current RAM size / bandwidth ratios of current generation systems and the expected trends for next generation systems. Doubling this would require 8 chips which would be cost prohibitive and won't yield good performance/price ratios as the bandwidth wouldn't scale with any increase in capacity. Optical Drive: 4-8* Blu Ray, what else can I say? CPU: X86/PPC equivalent to a fast Core 2 Duo. GPU: ~between an HD 4850 or HD 5770 in outright performance, feature set could be DX10 or DX11. Storage: Something like 8GB of Flash. lol, my explanations died out. Anyway the RAM thing probably needed the most explanation and the rest sort of feels like 6 of this compared to half a dozen of the same. Different terminology yielding the same result.
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That's not much stronger than the current HD consoles.
A Radeon HD 4850 is only 3-3.5 times faster than the GPU of the Xbox 360, and this new Nintendo console is supposed to come out in 2012... 7 years later than the X360.
I think that's very poor when you consider the X360 also cost $300 when it launched.
