| vivster said: Is this sarcasm? Sorry my detector is broken. Using a certain chip design has no correlation with power. All we know is that the console will probably be very power efficient but Polaris does not mean "faster than any last gen chip". And while it still may use Jaguar as its CPU that does not mean full compatibility as they will use a different graphics architecture. Power is not the only thing to sell to hardcore. What Nintendo needs are good relations with 3rd parties and that has yet to be seen. The NX can be as strong as it wants, if it does not have the latest AAA games, hardcores will not buy it. If Nintendo can somehow suppress their urge to reinvent the wheel yet again and just make a good console that plays both Nintendo and 3rd party games and they stop being a bitch with indies and publishers, then NX could become a success. |
It's half and half :)
Do some reading on the Polaris chips. We don't know if it's a 10 or 11, either way. There is still a spec range for those chips, so unless Nintendo has them custom ordered. Which they likely will. The cheaper one is still a fairly big step up in terms of specs. Put that in a console, it's going to look damn impressive. This is also dependant on how the OS is handled and it's resources.
I just want to double check, but you know Polaris is a GPU right? It's likely that Nintendo will have an APU based on the architecture. Which would only be logical. Of course as some have stated. The Zen APU wouldn't be a bad way to go either.
