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Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design
Vigile writes "Nintendo has never been known to be very aggressive with its gaming console hardware and with today's release (in the U.S.) of the Wii U we are seeing a continuation of that business model. PC Perspective spent several hours last night taking apart a brand new console to reveal a very simplistic board and platform design topped off with the single multi-chip module that holds the IBM PowerPC CPU and the AMD GPU. The system includes 2GB of GDDR3 memory from Samsung and Foxconn/Hon-Hai built wireless controllers for WiFi and streaming video the gamepad. Even though this system is five years newer, many analysts estimate the processing power of Nintendo's Wii U to be just ahead of what you have in the Xbox 360 today."
I remember in nintendo power magazine, they had a long article that basically said cartridges were the space shuttle, and cd roms were snails. At the end of the article, they said that if anybody tells you that the future belongs to cd roms, you should tell them that the future doesn't belong to snails.
Ironically, today their consoles perform at a snails pace compared to their competitors.
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. I think it's fair to say that the PS4 will infact be a bog standard 0x64 PC dressed up like a console.
Im going to assume you meant x64 or 64-bit; Im unaware of any 100-bit computers currently on the market ;)
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I'm so sorry.