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Nintendo Gaming / RE: How Revolution Works
« on: October 20, 2005, 08:07:37 PM »
I was talking with this guy that works for IBM that came and spoke for my engineering class(electrical engineering major...), the topic ended up on game consoles and the processors behind them. He said that the X360 and PS3 processors(both by IBM) are difficult to compare in terms of power because they're architecture is so different, he did say however that, to him anyway, the graphics of the two weren't that different and that the two companies were going in different directions with what they wanted to use them for. When I asked him about the chip IBM was developing for Nintendo he told me that the basis for it is the Gamecube's cpu(PowerPC 750CX) and that it would be a modified(it was implied that the modifications would be big) version of that. Furthermore he did go on to state that the Revolution's cpu specs aren't final yet and that they probably won't be until early spring 2006 or so. In all he seemed to know what he was talking about so I imagine this information is pretty accurate.