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HappySqurriel on 11 September 2012
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superchunk said:
curl-6 said:
superchunk said:
So, I read the GAF thread for this and I have to say this though. IF this turns out to be true (we'll only know after it launches and someone tears it down), I will be buying a 2nd console in 2014 when I see defect rate (or lack there of) for neXtBox/PS4. Because there is no way the console defined in the OP will be able to play all 3rd party games at that point.

I'll also realize NO ONE LEARNED A DAMN THING from this last generation. Also, if true.... it better be fucking priced at $250 or less for the a base version. At least in two days we'll know how good or bad the full OS/Online system is as well as pricing.

Surely there's 0% chance it's true; they're putting Mass Effect 3 and Assassin's  Creed 3 on it, those couldn't run on 3 Broadways.

Why not? 3 Broadways with increased clock speed and cache are easily comparable with a X360 CPU, if not a little better.

The ony thing that makes this largly implausible is that its not Power7. Everything else screams Nintendo practices and its in line with random secret 'devs' who've said its not much more powerful than PS360's CPUs.

However, its memory is not in line with random devs who've said there is a 'massive' amount, nor is the GPU the expected jump up based on devs saying its a good GPU that is quite a bit more powerful than PS360. Devs have specifically mentioned newer technologies that I believe would require something that would be similar to DX11 and OpenGL 4.x.

At first I'm 100% false on this, but reading the GAF thread in regards to who the source is as well as devs on that site... I'm now 90% on the false.

A large part of why I'm convinced this is false, and why I'm expecting something similar to what I posted, comes from what non-anonymous developers have said about the Wii U.

It seems to me that talking about how great the performance from memory is could come from stripping out half of the cores but leaving their memory controllers in place and having the chip run in TuroboCore mode. A 3/4 core chip with 6/8 memory controllers to be used by 12/16 threads would be relatively impressive, affordable and low energy consumption processor; and its memory bandwidth would be substantially better than either the XBox 360 or PS3's CPUs.