Leaked specifications list for the Project Cafe

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Viper1 said:

Xen said:

50/50 chance of this being real. On one hand this is a hugeass jump from the PS3 (the GPU and CPU are damn powerful, also very much plausible), on the other... I'm having a hard time believing that Nintendo is gonna go that far for power. Is 3rd party support THAT impotant to you, Nintendo? What happened to making money?

That's not very far at all, actually.   The BOM would probably come about to $250.  None of those parts are top of the line even today (except the Blu-ray drive).

 

I'll put it this way.  It would be hard for Nintendo to try to make a console that wasn't atleast as powerful as the PS3/X360.  To get back down to that lower level of performance, Nintendo would have to contract out vendors to produce components they no longer even manufacture which would make them just as expensive as the parts listed here.

^ This is spot on.

Take a look at a GPU performance ranking like this one.

The PS3 and 360's graphics cards are at Nvidia 7800 and Radeon X1900 XT level which you can't find for sale anywhere. Much above those cards, you can find cards which are extremely cheap these days, let alone in a year when Nintendo launches Cafe...