Vena said:
Conina said:
Whatever let's you sleep at night. But without x86-compatibility the WiiU successor will not gain back third-party-support. |
Its not what makes me sleep better at night, its the reality. PPC wasn't abandoned by Apple because x86 somehow stopped being inferior, it was abandoned because it was more mainstream and available. x86 is OLD. Moreover, x86 isn't going to make or break third party support. Nintendo doesn't have third party support because many (if not a majority) of its gamers do not buy third party. People buy Nintendo for Nintendo first party titles and the occassional third/second party exclusives.
They are either going to do PPC or they are going to do ARM. If they go x86 I will eat a hat. Only Sony and MS were stupid enough (Sony less stupid and in much worse financial straights, and they needed cheap units and couldn't afford to sell at a loss) to go x86 and try and compete with PCs.
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Nope.
Apple abandoned PowerPC because Intel had a better roadmap and IBM was not willing to invest in the PowerPC-Architecture. Apple wouldn't be able to build a MacBook Air, that lasts 12 hours with a PowerPC-Chip. Intel has much besser Perfomance-Per-Watt.
