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WolfpackN64 on 22 June 2016
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MrCkurab said:

Ok, didnt know PowerPC is still that much around, learned something new today.
Still, the problem is that all other big platforms (PC, Xbox, PS4) use slight variations of the same X86 architecture. Being the odd one out will obviously lead to problems, even more so if the last console you released was the Wii U.

Worst case: Nintendo uses PowerPC again, Third parties go: nope! Didnt work with Wii U and that came from the Wii, dont even wanna touch this!
Its a very pessimistic approach and hopefully not whats going to happen, but I could see that, at least with some developers.

IBM is pushing POWER hard and group over a hundred companies in the OpenPOWER consortium, basically opening up the architecture. But IBM is mainly pushing POWER for servers at the moment and they're trying to push back x86 on the server front.

NXP is the only one developping embedded PPC chips, but their development has been quite slow as of late. Even though Nintendo could potentially even get 12 or 24 core processors from them in the same power envelope as the Xbox One and PS4.

But Nintendo has, outside IBM, also a good relation with AMD. And my feeling is they will go with an x86 APU from them.