Macronix Claims NX Releasing This Year, They are Providing Memory Slots

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Werix357 said:

JEMC said:

Werix357 said:

It's posible but unlikely for this year as AMD are apparently conscentrating on ZEN first.

There's a difference between concentrating on something and doing only that.

Besides, AMD announced that they had won a design win for a console all the way back to December 2014

http://www.gamnesia.com/news/amd-hints-at-a-new-gaming-platform-to-be-announced-in-2016

so whatever Nintendo uses, AMD has been working on that for quite some time.

Third party devs would find it easier to port a game to ARM based architecture or X86? I'm sure Nintendo want third party support this time.

Devs are used to develop for both kind of processors, and most game engines like Unreal Engine support them.

That said, the advantage of ARM processors is their low power consumption while x86 processors give more performance, so in my opinion Nintendo should use an ARM processor for the handheld (as they are doing right now with the 3DS) and an x86 CPU for the home console.