Will Nintendo's next handheld and console use Power PC like the Wii U?

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burninmylight said:

I believe ARM is strictly meant for mobile devices, and many of its features would be lost on a home console.

Not strictly mobile no, it was initially designed as a proccessor for business PCs back in the 80s. Of course being a small company IBM, Moterolla and Intel quickly cornered that market. But it was then adapted to be used in embedded systems of all kinds due to it's low cost and power effeciancy. And those qualities plus the flexable licensing terms that let different vendors use the ARM IP and architecture to create custom chips made it pefect for mobile devices of course. But ARM is used in a wide range of devices from Digital cameras all the way up to Servers. The features that make it good for mobile devices being low cost, power effeciant, small die sizes, low heat etc also matches Nintendo's hardware design philosophy perfectly.

It's also worth noting the Jaguar cores that the PS4 and XBOne use for their CPUs is actually designed for mobile devices like tablets and netbooks, as well as microservers and embedded devices. It's a very low end x86 part designed to compete in part with the high end ARM parts.