| stof said: Will this make it so that when I play Eternal Darkness, the disc drive won't drown out the sound every time it playes a video? Because that would be worth a second purchase! |
I think the mere fact of it being a new console would mean a quieter drive.
Have you ever dropped or knocked your Wii? because my drive became louder when I dropped it while moving it from the living room to my room.
| Soleron said: Makes sense. No fans + 65nm shrink will significantly reduce costs too. |
Costs wouldn't drop by much. Maybe 5-7$ per console. I bet they put a bigger heat sink in there which would eat up some money they save on not having a fan.
The CPU and GPU were already very cheap for Nintendo to buy. That's why we haven't seen any changes yet. They might want to save that 5-7$ though to keep the yen from eating at their profit.
Prepare for termination! It is the only logical thing to do, for I am only loyal to Megatron.
@DarkNight_DS: 5-7 IS much, even more when it turns 1:1 to your profit margin. 20M consoles sold a year, 100-140 million more profit.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
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Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
puffy said:
I think Bdbdbd was being sarcastic there.. Also yeh your post explains what killerman was saying except that he's a troll and read half the OP before posting
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You have some weird definition of trolling...
@TWRoO: Yeah. You are propably right. It just seemed so weird to me that Nintendo is so lot behing in this matter but your point is maybe the reason for it.
This is impressive.
Manchester United 2008-09 Season - Trophies & Records
wow! Nintendo gonna make crazty cash!
@Killerman (and TWRoo): TWRoos reasoning is only a part of the truth. Nintendo isn't much behind in going to smaller chipsets, but instead of looking why Nintendo isn't going to smaller die, incentives of Sony and M$ should be observed.
M$ had an incentive to get 360 to run cooler due to RRoD issues and since it is sold at a loss, cutting the cost is important.
PS3 is sold at a loss so Sony has a need to cut the cost too.
Wii is sold at a profit and it doesn't have a hardware failure similar to RRoD, so there's no forcing need to get the cost down. After all, i'd recall GC having the same CPU and GPU through its life.
Due to the difference in number/size of processors, going to smaller size doesn't pay off with Wii in similar fashion it does with PS360, so it's much better to wait until the smaller sized dies are noticeably cheaper or go by your possible contract that has the option to shrink in size after a certain period of time.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
Let's also factor in that Nintendo, Sony and MS do not completely control those parts. IBM does for the CPU's, ATi for Nintendo and MS' GPU's and nVidia for the PS3 GPU.
It's not as simple as Nintendo saying, "Hey, let's do a die shrink next week."
The rEVOLution is not being televised
No fans? who cares is not like the one inside make much noica anyway.
If it isn't turnbased it isn't worth playing 
(mostly)
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