TheBigFatJ on 08 February 2008
| HappySqurriel said: I could be wrong but I suspect Nintendo is holding off on moving to the 45nm process until they have re-engineered the Broadway and Hollywood processors to fit on a single chip, and they could be designing a "slim" Wii using this chip along with a lap-top (like) optical drive which is much smaller. On top of that, I think that Nintendo's main focus with the Wii's Hardware at the moment is to increase production. |
I don't think they'd go with a different form factor for the DVD drive unless it can be consistent or improve on both seek times and read speeds. Certain games require load times to be complete within specific windows (Metroid Prime, for example) and that's why Nintendo would have to be careful when changing the DVD drive.
