| Soundwave said: Mobile chips will be able to match/exceed Wii U's performance by 2016. This mobile chip (as in one designed for tablets/smartphones/mobile) Can generate these graphics: That's Crysis 3 multiplayer running in real time on that chip. And that's coming this May in a $199 box with 3GB RAM. Nintendo could theoretically have something more powerful for a 2016 launch. |
Keep in mind Nintendo passed on using a much higher performance PowerPC processor (G4, G5, A2 etc.) in the Wii-U in favour of a processor (PowerPC 750 aka. G3) that Apple stopped using 10 years before, and the system itself struggles to match the previous generation PS3 and Xbox 360. Even now cellphones have better processors than the Wii-U, and they are only going to get better.
If Nintendo have any sense at all they'd use the chip you suggested, or go to x86 like Sony and Microsoft. But its unlikely considering their recent record of going for cheap, obsolete hardware.
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