Nintendo NX very likely will have AMD x86 chip, possible 14/16nm

[OdinHades]

Soundwave said:

OdinHades said:
Yai, next Gen we will have three different consoles, which are all basically the same!

I liked the old days Ehen every console had its own personality. :/

Shrugs, most generations have similarly classed hardware. The SNES/Genesis, N64/PSone/Saturn, PS2/GameCube/XBox, etc. The Wii is more the exception than the rule, and we've seen with the Wii U, Nintendo was not able to repeat that formula (underpowered hardware + controller gimmick only works when the controller gimmick blows people's minds). 

Nintendo consoles are pretty much always unique because Nintendo makes radically different types of games from Sony/MS. 

Besides really at this point how many gimmicks can realistically a company come up with that really change the game play in a fundamental fashion? A robot console? Sex console? VR console (wait Sony and MS already are supporting that)? Console for pets? Console for senior citizens?

The genesis and the SNES had their very own personality and I'm not talking about some dumbass gimmicks. The hardware was very very different with each console using their own soundchip and graphics chip. That's why you could always tell if a game was running on SNES or Genesis, even without knowing so beforehand. It just had it's own style. The same was true for the NES with it's 5 sound channels that could only be used for certain wavelenghts. The C64 could use only 3 sound channels, but with any wave you wanted. The result were very different soundtracks. (Yeah, yeah, the C64 wasn't a console, but you get the whole idea). Then there were the graphics. The NES could use a shitload of sprites, but they were all tiny and small while other systems could use less sprites but bigger ones. It all resulted in that very own personality of the consoles back in the days. Developers still had to be creative to use the hardware to the fullest and they needed to understand each system individually. Another example would be the terrible Aliasing on PS1 and PS2 compared to the smooth but foggy graphics on the N64. There are countless examples.

Today you just get customized PCs with every system using mostly the exact same parts, just with different steppings and whatnot. The games may have another resolution on this or that console or run with less FPS, but overall, they just feel exactly the same. And that's boring. I couldn't care less about gimmicks, that's not what gives a console personality. It's a unique concept together with customized hardware that really brings what console gaming is all about. I just think it's rather sad that it's nowadays nothing more than PC gaming with some excklusive titles. Really, it's just boring.