45nm for Wii? A future Wii redesign?

[GlingGling]

Words Of Wisdom said:

homerman100 said:
WOW, it would not be the headache you make it out to be. It is a matter of popping in a smaller version of the Wii CPU (Hollywood or Broadway... I always mix the two up) in the same chipset, in the same Wii form factor. Making software for the machine doesn't change. Of course testing must be done to insure the 45nm version is functional, but all the manufacturers (IBM, Intel, AMD, et al.) are transitioning to 45nm anyways. They're in the mode to do it. Do it now while you can profit from it. That just makes sense.

I'm getting tired of repeating myself. Agree to disagree?

You can disagree, but what homerman said is accurate. This happens in PCs every product generation. Pop-in replacements will make their way in at some point. On the other hand we very likely won't see a new form factor for the Wii. It's about as small as it can possibly be. They can barely fit all the GameCube sockets on the one side.