Mr Khan said:
spemanig said:
Mr Khan said:
But then Nintendo's stuck with the Wii U architecture moving forward. They want to forget the Wii U as quickly as they "safely" can (which is to say, soon enough that Wii U owners don't feel burned by early abandonment, but no later). The next handheld will lead the next console's structure.
Unless they match GPU, which is more possible.
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No, they don't. They specifically said that they want their next platform to absorb the Wii U's architecture. They literally used the words "absorb" "Wii U" and "architecture."
They want to drop the Wii U as quickly as possible from a product perspective, but clearly not from an actitecture perspective. What ever the next handheld is, it's definitely going to borrow a lot from the Wii U.
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GPU only, though, as i said. They can't stick with PowerPC, it's a design albatross.
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Even with ARM CPU I suspect they could borrow some elements of the Wii U CPU structure if they asked specifically for it. Or at least layout their own dev kits to make porting Wii U code to Fusion code as streamlined as possible.
While I don't think it'll literally be a drag and drop type of thing, I suspect Nintendo is aiming for their next portable to be able to port Wii U engines/games over with relative ease, and for teams who are familiar with the Wii U I think the goal is to make moving them over to the next gen handheld/Fusion platform(s) almost a transparent, no headache process.
