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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.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Update on my problem with the DS screens!

« on: August 02, 2005, 08:16:56 PM »

playing a handheld without focusing.. Have you actually tried that? Actually accomplishing anything in the game would be extremely difficult.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Paring down the Revolution controller

« on: August 02, 2005, 08:14:54 PM »

I wonder why they deleted it? It could just be that someone said something stupid and got the whole topic moderated, or there could be some truth to the thread and nintendo had it deleted to contain the leak...

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General Gaming / RE:No HD DVD drive at 360 launch?

« on: August 02, 2005, 08:12:22 PM »

For expensive media look no further than blank dual-layered dvd's. If and I stress if the Nintendo decides to go with a HD media than it would probably be Blu-ray. Doesn't Nintendo have a partnership of some kind with Matsushita/Panasonic? Panasonic supports Blu-ray last I heard... But in the likely case that they go with dvd, and MS goes with dvd also, than there won't be any reason why Nintendo won't be able to get a port of a game if MS does (hardware wise anyway).

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General Gaming / RE: Sony may delay PS3

« on: August 02, 2005, 08:03:04 PM »

it makes sense if you read it once or twice slowly...

That does sound like something sony would do... "Toy Story" graphics anyone? They hyped the cell processor so much and look what happened, they're using a separate graphics chip, as well as that the ps3 is going to be difficult to develop for because of it.

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General Gaming / Sony may delay PS3

« on: August 02, 2005, 07:26:35 PM »

Link

Would that give MS too much of a head start? Or would it work like the article says and kill the hype on the x360 just to come in later with the ps3 (similar to the launch of dreamcast).

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TalkBack / RE: Konami Upgrades Their Website

« on: August 02, 2005, 01:19:42 PM »

"It was this news story or new specs on the Revolution. We think we made the right choice."

That's not funny...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: USB 2.0. and 480p (Techie Help)

« on: August 01, 2005, 10:13:58 PM »

My understanding of this feature would be that you would directly hook it up to the monitor and bypass the computer altogether. If is indeed a Nintendo supported feature it will probably come with a hookup of somekind to connect it to a monitor. Hopefully it will be DVI (DVI supports HD signals), but as that is not something that everyone has on their monitor it may be VGA, or possibly both via an adapter such as the one a lot of newer video cards have.

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General Gaming / RE:No HD DVD drive at 360 launch?

« on: August 01, 2005, 10:03:59 PM »

huh?

Anyway, I remember hearing this about the Xbox360 at least several months ago. The thing about the larger disks isn't so much that you can put more game on there, it's that you can do it in HD. That's the whole purpose of these larger formats coming out, that you can put an entire movie on to one in HD. IIRC I heard that the X360 was going to use 720p, if so then it is entirely plausible that Nintendo would do the same. 720p isn't HD but supposedly it's closer(picture quality-wise) to HD than it is to a standard tv.

EDIT: spelling

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