December 07, 2005

Nintendo Revolution Not So Powerful

Developers are leaking information about the next gen Nintendo console. Supposedly it will only be 2.5Xs more powerful than the Gamecube. They are trying to replicate the success of the Nintendo DS by coming out at a lower price point and an innovative user interface.

In terms of RAM, the system is well-known to boast 512MB of Flash RAM which can be used to store save games and downloaded content, but this will not be accessible to developers, we were told. What they'll have available is 96MB of main memory, built on the same 1T-SRAM architecture as the Cube, and "a few megs here and there for other stuff" - such as 3MB of on-board memory on the graphics chip, which will be used for a frame buffer. "That's plenty, since the Revolution isn't supporting HDTV," one developer added.