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Originally Posted by bk111
I will be really upset if they don't boost the specs a lot from the Gamecube. I've heard that they told developers to just up the specs from the Gamecube development kits. I'm really frustrated by all the secrecy.
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ok, just to set the record straight...
-the revolution has its own development kits, which has been confirmed by developers. i mean, how else would we know about some of the information that we already have if it weren't for developers leaking us info about the developement kits?
-the specs will be pwn-some(lol)and the rev. although not being a highly expensive piece of hardware focusing on graphics, will be 2-4x more powerful than the gamecube and will have just as many times greater the graphics.
-the rev will have an IBM "Broadway" CPU, and an ATI "Hollywood" GPU.
-secrecy was a part of the marketing of nintendo, and to prevent other companies from getting a glimpse of their ideas during the developement stage until they could get patents. everything will be revealed at e3 in may (starting on the 9th)
- there will be an unconfirmed amount of 1T-SRAM, whose goal is to "combine the speed of SRAM with the capacity and price of DRAM. The new 1T-SRAM has very low power consumption while maintaning a rate of speed and functionality close to SRAM and allowing for the density of DRAM."
- it is rumored to have 88MB 1T-SRAM and 16MB D-RAM, but this PURE SPECULATION!
- however, it is confirmed that the revolution will have 512mb of expandable flash memory, which is plenty enough for games, despite what many people think. Nintendo is trying to make a family friendly console that willl not devour your wallet as you purchase it. keeping this in mind, nintendo has wisely decided not to include a hard drive in their next-gen console for several reasons. they state that hard drives are the parts of computers that are most prone to crashing, also, they can be expensive, which will in the end eventually cost the purchaser more money, and increase the price of the system. nintendo has officially stated that there will be 2 usb 2.0 ports on the rev. and 2(?) sd memory card slots allowing for users to expand the memory if they so please.
-Satoru Iwata (nintendo president for those of you who didn't know) said that when you compare the next-gen consoles spec-wise, the Revolution isn't the winner. He also said that specs don't really matter, because when you play it, there won't be a noticable difference. How you may ask? Well, the PS3 and XBOX 360 may be monsters when it comes to specs, but, does all of that power really go to the games? Sadly, the answer is no. The truth is, all of that extra power goes to the multiple connections, ports, hard drives, and other accesories. Nintendo has conserved it's power by only providing two USB ports and the required A/V ports and power adapter ports, and the sd memory card slots. (so the revolution will not have a giant brick of a power adapter like the 360.)
so commenting on the rev.'s power, size, versatility, innovation, controller, future pheriphals/add-ons, and nintendo's view of the current market, etc., this is a lot of power and quality coming from a console which is smaller than 3 stacked dvd cases!
hoped this cleared things up a bit, and will prevent any future confusion. we'll just have to wait until E3!