Why you will see them with a Tegra even when Tegra2 is out (which funny enough will be powerful enough to run the wii games probably, heck wouldn't doubt it if it could do 720 upscale output at the same time).
@Gir: Yeah, and Wii was slated to have a three-core G5-equivalent processor.
Don't believe Nintendo hardware rumours (at least not until like a few weeks before announcement); that one I just quoted above was a real rumour at the time. They seem to have a pretty good lockdown on such leaks, and they will definitely consider cheapness and low battery consumption ahead of other factors. Tegra (which should be reasonably cheap by the end of the year or next year or whenever this is supposed to drop) sounds a lot more likely to me than Tegra 2 (which will presumably be really expensive initially).
Or to put it another way, the CPU in the original DS was way below the fastest ARM chips available at the time (ie without changing any other aspect of the design they could've doubled the speed - but it would've cost more and the battery life would've gone down), and I'd expect the same to be true of DS2. A current Tegra at low end of clock speed range would still give it hugely more power than DS.
I'm perfectly willing to believe Nintendo are investigating and prototyping systems with Tegra 2, I just think - at least if they release in the next twelve months - they'll probably go with something cheaper.
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Whatever. Nintendo doesn't DO hardware battles.
Why you will see them with a Tegra even when Tegra2 is out (which funny enough will be powerful enough to run the wii games probably, heck wouldn't doubt it if it could do 720 upscale output at the same time).
@Templarian:
Read the post above again... the DS2 is slated to -have- the Tegra2...
@Gir: Yeah, and Wii was slated to have a three-core G5-equivalent processor.
Don't believe Nintendo hardware rumours (at least not until like a few weeks before announcement); that one I just quoted above was a real rumour at the time. They seem to have a pretty good lockdown on such leaks, and they will definitely consider cheapness and low battery consumption ahead of other factors. Tegra (which should be reasonably cheap by the end of the year or next year or whenever this is supposed to drop) sounds a lot more likely to me than Tegra 2 (which will presumably be really expensive initially).
Or to put it another way, the CPU in the original DS was way below the fastest ARM chips available at the time (ie without changing any other aspect of the design they could've doubled the speed - but it would've cost more and the battery life would've gone down), and I'd expect the same to be true of DS2. A current Tegra at low end of clock speed range would still give it hugely more power than DS.
I'm perfectly willing to believe Nintendo are investigating and prototyping systems with Tegra 2, I just think - at least if they release in the next twelve months - they'll probably go with something cheaper.