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PHG said:
As a developer(I'm going to remain anonymous so I don't lose my job or any of partners') with fairly close ties to many of the hardware and software manufactures the companies use, I'll say Fusion is only one of the designs nintendo is working on, and Iin my opinion from what I've seen from the designs, I gotta say the technology just isn't there yet for what nintendo is envisioning. Of the designs they were pitching around, they gave a very promising proposal to NVidia and Intel about designing the CPU & GPU for a machine with a custom Titan Black and 4th Gen i7, which would be used in a multimedia device with non-proprietary BD drive, HDD or SSD, with a focus on multitasking the system with a wii u controller(or the next gen counterpart). The last part os pretty much stating their goal is to have the system be able to play a game on the controller while the TV plays netflix, hulu, etc. similar to the snap feature on XB1 but with seperate screens, and includes the ability to play 2 different games (however, I honestly think this will be limited to Virtual Console games or Wii/Wii U games if the system is BC). Also I have to stress all this stuff is in the proposal phase and i would expect to see prototypes behind closed doors until 2016, so the big N to release its console until 2018/2019.

Let me start by saying that what I'm going to post doesn't mean that I don't believe you. I'm neutral to your credibility. But given that you are sharing this info, I have to ask: Why the hell will Nintendo go with Intel and Nvidia when they have always gone to IBM and AMD?

I mean, I could understand if they dropped IBM in favor of an x86 architecture like the rest of the industry, but why going with Intel when they have been long term partners with AMD? And the GPU manufacturer is even more strange, they have always used AMD and it's has been very clear from the last gens that AMD is more open to discuss with console manufacturers than Nvidia, and that's without taking into account that AMD is cheaper than Nvidia making the idea of using a 290X-like performance GPU a lot more feasible.

Also, what is a non-propietary BD drive? Do you mean a drive like the one on the WiiU? Because that one can't play BD movie discs, something odd for a multimedia center.



Please excuse my bad English.

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