Activision + Vivendi/Blizzard = Infinity Ward + Starcraft Ghost....? To good to be true?

Jet engines are combustion engines, and not powered by electricity. Are they talking about spinning the turbines using electricity from the fuel cell, or is it just a ducted fan? Or am I just missing something?

I think it's also worth mentioning that MS, being the architects of Direct X, might have a pretty good idea of what actually matters in creating games. After reading the article it certainly seems that that was the case....

"Who says that they haven't added things into it like pixel shaders"
Well, that's what our lead programmer tells me, and I'm inclined to believe him. Nintendo told us that it was the exact same gpu as the GC, just at a higher clock speed. And after getting the dev kits we haven't found anything that leads us to believe that they're lying about it. As a developer it's in my best interest that the Wii do well, so I'm certainly not trying to rain on anyones parade. I just feel compeled to to do what I can to keep peoples expectations closer to reality.

The Wii really is a gamecube, but with more powerfull processers and more ram. But when they say more powerfull, what they mean is the exact same processers, but reduced in die size and overclocked, seriously. It's like having a gforce 2 card that's overclocked. It is more powerfull than the normal g force 2, but it still suffers from the same old technology and limitations....a few things have changed in gpu's over the last 5 years besides just having higher clock speeds, like say pixel shaders! People really have to take Nintendo at their word, or they're just going to be disapointed. Look at the Wii for what it is, not what it isn't!

I can't see how this could possibly be true. As a Wii developer you think they'd at least tell us? There is no way that they could make any changes to the chips at this late date, exept maybe bump up the speed a bit...maybe. The chips are done, and they'll stay that way if they want any of their 3rd party launch games to run, as well as any Gamecube games. If there is something going on, they're not telling the people actually making the games for them. What people are probably refering to is developers becoming more familiar with the particulars of the hardware.... there is certainly plenty to figure out even on a machine that is very similar to a Gamecube. Or maybe they'll just include two Gpu's and Cpu's...that could probably work...though it would be pretty lame to screw all us 3rd party guys by not letting us take advantage of that!