[QUOTE="PandaBear86"] Its not the release date that I am concerned with. Its the fact that IBM PowerPCs are very inefficient. Even the recent PowerPC chips are lagging behind the competition when it comes to cost/size-to-performance ratio. This is a matter of PowerPC chips being poor, not release dates.clone01

[QUOTE="stvee101"]

Wow so the latest hardware is more powerful than six year old hardware.

Mind = Boggled.

Except that it costs the same as the Xbox 360/PS3 and performs better in games.

[QUOTE="PandaBear86"][QUOTE="clone01"] Cool can't wait to play all my Nintendo exclusives on the Wii. And something that just came out beats something made in 2006? Wow.clone01

And when was it released?

[QUOTE="PandaBear86"][QUOTE="BlbecekBobecek"]

Ad. 1080p - its completely in the hands of developers if they decide to optimise their games on 1080p or not. Its always a dilema - higher resolution, or more and better effects? What is (hypothetically) better - 1080p without AA or 720p with 4x AA? Will we have more open spaces and more action on the screen in 720p or less in 1080p? On current consoles, the computing power is on a level where most devs decided to stick with 720p (or even sub HD) to achieve better effects etc. Nintendo will be much more powerful so its completely possible that corridor shooters like CoD will run in 1080p with decent AA and will look stunning, but a little bit more open world games like Crysis 1 will run at 720p (and again - will look stunning). Why would Nintendo bind developers by some rules like "Every single game on N6 must be 1080p."? That would be silly.

If you think that they just add some magical circuit that will make it 1080p without changing anything else, you completely dont understand how consoles (and PCs) work. Thats why I laughed when I read about Wii HD rumors - "it will be same as Wii, but with HD" - lol, not possible. :)

savagetwinkie

If it can handle 1080p, then it should easily handle 3-D in 720p. Yet Nintendo stated they have no interest in supporting 3-D, despite the fact that the console is physically capabale of it. Do you really think Nintendo will give third party devs the option of anything? No, Nintendo are the only ones who are allowed to make decisions because they are very strict with their hardware.

[QUOTE="Harisemo"]

cool cant wait to play uncharted 3 on it

cool can't wait to play Starcraft 2 on my PS3.

[QUOTE="PandaBear86"] Hope that turns out to be true. PowerPCs are soooo outdated, some of their tech is from the 90's! The only benefit of PowerPC chips is backwards compatibility with previous consoles that used the chip (Wii, Gamecube, 360, etc). But even with BC, I would totally recommend not using it.lowe0

[QUOTE="PandaBear86"]

One of the main weaknesses of the Wii was the fact that it only had 512mb of Flash memory. Well fear not, since the Project Cafe will support a massive 8gb of Flash memory. 320gb hard drives are so last gen.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/03/wii-2-rumors-only-8gb-of-storage-25gb-discs-and-1080p-isnt-a/

So yeah, if this report turns out to be true, then don't expect the Project Cafe to have good online apart from unified Friend Codes. Knowing Nintendo, I wouldn't be surprised if it is true. Plus no 100% guarantee of 1080p at this stage :|

Ad. 1080p - its completely in the hands of developers if they decide to optimise their games on 1080p or not. Its always a dilema - higher resolution, or more and better effects? What is (hypothetically) better - 1080p without AA or 720p with 4x AA? Will we have more open spaces and more action on the screen in 720p or less in 1080p? On current consoles, the computing power is on a level where most devs decided to stick with 720p (or even sub HD) to achieve better effects etc. Nintendo will be much more powerful so its completely possible that corridor shooters like CoD will run in 1080p with decent AA and will look stunning, but a little bit more open world games like Crysis 1 will run at 720p (and again - will look stunning). Why would Nintendo bind developers by some rules like "Every single game on N6 must be 1080p."? That would be silly.

If you think that they just add some magical circuit that will make it 1080p without changing anything else, you completely dont understand how consoles (and PCs) work. Thats why I laughed when I read about Wii HD rumors - "it will be same as Wii, but with HD" - lol, not possible. :)

[QUOTE="PandaBear86"][QUOTE="KC_Hokie"]From what I've read MS has already signed contracts with AMD to use future Fusion technology in their next Xbox. KC_Hokie