ChronotriggerJM on 11 February 2008
| HappySqurriel said: Hypothetically speaking, Nintendo could use the Cell processor and (probably) still maintain backwards compatibility with the Wii and the Gamecube. Personally, I don't see this happening because Nintendo (since the N64) has favoured an architecture which is easy to develop for and their enhancements on the hardware have been heavily videogame specific. I think it is more likely that Nintendo would build a physics processing unit inside of their processor than for them to use a processor like the Cell. |
Yah I agree, it's probably the road they would take, I was just saying that if the technology theoretically took off (Isn't IBM already using servers, Toshiba in TV's, super computers etc etc), couldn't they just double up on the chip-set, and maybe use more memory? As far as I've heard the Cell is amazing for memory management to power ratio.
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