Nintendo Q1 Earnings April-June

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Vena said:

Soundwave said:

I think PowerPC is out too -- too exotic (meaning a higher cost to mass produce) of a chip. ARM will be Nintendo's partner, I think Qualcomm will get the nod for the GPU since Nintendo's Tech division head apparently used to work for Qualcomm. ARM + Qualcomm will probably give Nintendo a price that the likes of IBM + AMD simply can't match either. 

PowerPC is hardly exotic.

And considering what Nintendo has been saying about not having console and handheld be completely different, I'd say the chance of PPC handheld are higher than not. x86 is certainly out as its too general purpose. Since I see the WiiU for better or worse having several more years ahead of it, I think it would make more sense for them to work towards PPC integration and all of its benefits, rather than pursue ARM into areas where it itself has never been taken. ARM is for small mobile, there are better alternatives for larger mobile and, definitely, for consoles. For reference on architecture.

I'm not sure I follow at all. From what I understand, the CPU doesn't matter as much so they can go with whatever makes sense and ARM seems to make sense. According to many on NeoGAF ARM is a better architecture than x86 and things are perfectly portable across either. I think they'll ditch PPC because it's too expensive. The Wii U will be replaced sooner than later, I believe at the same time as the handheld releases actually.