Captain_Tom on 14 July 2014
| fatslob-:O said: If I were Nintendo I would actually work with Intel to design my next console rather than AMD. Intel has the advantage in process node which is important for getting a lower power consumption in small form factor devices like handhelds. The new Nintendo handheld likely won't be anywhere near the WII U's raw power so it's preferable that they stick with a resolution of roughly around 480x270 to get the best image quality and it is a slight improvement over the 3DS's resolution. As for backwards compatibility I wouldn't bother as almost no one other than Nintendo fans will miss being able to play WII U games. I would go with the x86 architecture for the handheld as IBM just keeps neglecting to improve the micro architecture. Mind you, I'm not kidding when I say that the WII U is using a very old micro architecture ever since the gamecube days. It's that exact same line of thought that got where AMD is today due to the fact that they thought that they could keep rehashing the K6 architecture. I can see it now. A dual core clocked at 1 Ghz with a GT2 IGP clocked at 300mhz manufactured at 14nm would be the ideal combination. As for the memory configurations, a capacity of 2GB and a single channel DDR4 controller will perform admirably with a bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s will be more than enough to feed the entire SoC. |
My god I am glad you aren't making the decisions. The Atom CPU's are utter garbage, and a screen of that resolution would be laughably bad.
