IGN reveals new Revolution tech specs
IGN's Matt Casamassina has gotten his
hands on the most recent technical specs for the Nintendo Revolution, compiled from a few "extremely
reliable" sources. Here is what developers will working with:
- The "Broadway" CPU: 729MHz
(approximately the same speed as the original Xbox)
- The "Hollywood" GPU: 243MHz (again, very
close to the power of the original Xbox) with 3MBs of texture memory
- RAM: 88MBs, which breaks down to
24MBs of main 1T-SRAM and 64MBs of "external" 1T-SRAM, which one developer notes "can be accessed as
quickly as the main RAM, which is nice." The original Xbox, in continuing with teh comparison, had 64MBs of total
RAM.
These numbers are not official, but they do make sense with what Nintendo has been saying all along
that their focus was more on innovation than pushing the graphical limits--a philosophy which has worked with the
Nintendo DS to great success. A slightly more powerful Xbox is still an major improvement from the GameCube, but
technically inferior to both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Not to incite fanboyism, but do you still feel this is the
right move for Nintendo?
