RUMOR : NEPTUNE/SEGADRIVE To Officially Be Christened "SEGA 3D"?
Today a long time associate of this blog made contact with us and revealed some startling information.
We were told that the upcoming SEGA console currently going under the codenames "NEPTUNE" "SEGADRIVE" has officially received a final product title.
According to our source, upper management of SEGA SAMMY Holdings have officially settled on the title "SEGA 3D".
We were told that SEGA shall market the new system as the world's first stereoscopic 3D games system. Indeed, head of SEGA's worldwide consumer business Naoya Tsurumi late last month made the proclamation "I believe 3D will become a big wave".
Current games consoles available on the market such as the PS3 are only capable of 3D by heavily degrading the on-screen graphics, resolution and frame rates by as much as 50%, as these systems were not initially designed for stereoscopic 3D when they were in development in the first half of last decade.
If SEGA launches in 2011 as is currently expected, and manages to get a 1-2 year true stereoscopic 3D advantage on both Microsoft and Sony, then the company may find itself as the undisputed worldwide leader in the console market, a position it has not held in 15 years.
RECAP : NEPTUNE/SEGADRIVE Specifications
Today SEGANEWSWIRE would like to present it's readers a recap of the NEPTUNE/SEGADRIVE spec sheet.
So without further ado -
Central Processor
Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield
- 2.8GHz
- Quad Core
- 8MB L3 Cache
- Hyper-Threading
Co-Processor
Nvidia PhysX P2 PPU
- 2 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
Nvidia GeForce GTX 470
- Shader Model 5.0 Compliant
- Hardware Based Tesselation
Audio Processor
Digital Signal Processor
- 32-Bit
- 192KHz
- 7.1 Channel
System Memory
4 Gigabytes
- Unified Memory Architecture
- 384-Bit GDDR5
- 177GB/s
Disc Drive
Blu-Ray
Storage
120GB 2.5" HDD
Connectivity
802.11n Wi-Fi
Operating System
Linux
