Nintendo Leak Codename: Fusion DS and Termnial

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allenmaher said:
While I think this leak is inaccurate... the general idea sounds about right. We have three 3DS's in our house and one Wii U. Very few games allow you to play between them (monster hunter being the only one I have played). I think this is a good fit, a game pad that goes farther than the bathroom down the hall.

Spec wise... the power 8 is not out yet but is likely to come in a lot of variations, from ball busting big iron 12 core 8 threads per core monsters to more modest 3, 6 and maybe 8 core versions. They have an open power initiative for incorporating ARM and other technologies. There was even talk of low power SOC types... but we will see. Given that it is a console, I don't expect a big data workhorse. Power chips have good floating point performance though, unlike x86 which is good for gaming. The rest of the specs.... well who knows? How are you going to put an RX-290x easy bake oven in a small lower powered gaming console?

In a year or so the mobile SOC they quote will seem very dated (e.g. the new terga k1 way outclasses it.)

Doesn't much matter to me, I am happy with the Wii U/3DS (and steam machine) and I will get the next nintendo hardware as well.

I agree that a R9 290X (or any of the R9) is very unlikely. Maybe one of AMD's mid range cards from the R10(?) series if the plan is to launch the console in 2016.