I'm just gonna drop this here.
originally posted on the
consolewars forums, supposedly from a German Dev
No idea how reliable this is, but sometimes you just never know.
Chip names "Wolf" & "Fox"
Gecko & Flipper = Project Dolphin, Hollywood & Broadway = Revolution, Wolf & Fox = Project Café
Nonte of the chip names lead to anything directly related to them, but could we be seeing that next Gen Star Fox game that everyone has been wanting from Nintendo?
I figure all the 3Dmakes on 3DS are appetizers to a real update... at least that is what I hope.
OoT3D should wet the appetite for some Skyward Sword and StarFox64 3D should be the building block for a full 1080p Café update done internally by Nintendo themselves.
Custom RV770 w/ 1398 GFLOPs
The 360 is doing 240 GFLOPs at peak, so Café doing 1398 is almost 6x the performance of the 360 graphically. Also at 1398 GFLOPs it actually reaches the performance of 4890 which is above the 4770/4850 we were expecting.
Quad Core PPC CPU clocked @ 3.5Ghz
Original rumor called for a TriCore, but that could have just been early dev kits. Would certainly far outclass the 360 with not only a extra core, but all clocked higher and much more efficient. (I'll have to look up flops on Xenos or whatever the 360 CPU was called)
1.5GBs of RAM w/ 16MB of eDram
I would be happy with this amount. That is 3x as much as either current gen HD console. 512MB of fast system ram and 1GB of fast video RAM. Anything over 2GB was unrealistic if you ask me, so I would be happy with 1.5 (happier with 2GB though)
HDD included (250GB/320GB) & SD card expansion.
If that is the case, then let the 3rd party flood gates come crashing down. There will be no excuses as to why the Café couldn't and shouldn't receive each and every game that is not exclusive. I just hope it is a non-proprietary HDD (assuming any of this is true) that is easily user swappable like on PS3.
Bluray based Disc capable of 50GB (dual layer)
sounds good. exactly what was expected. Sticking with DVD would be a major oversight and a crippling feature when it's likely that MS will also join the High Density disc storage party that Bluray provides.
If this "Spec Sheet" turns out to be the real thing (and I'm not even suggesting that it is), then I wouldn't be disappointed in Nintendo's offerings based on what I'm seeing here. We would actually have a very VERY capable system. Something to truly be excited over.