Nintendo Revolution Specs
December 8, 2005 by Ingrid Diaz
Filed under Gaming
There’s a really interesting article over at IGN Revolution concerning the Revolution’s specs. From the sound of things, it looks like Nintendo had no intention of putting its console into direct competition with the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Instead, they’ve opted to create a console that’s more about affordability than breathtaking specs.
The IGN article reveals:
Developers have clarified the makeup based on officially released Nintendo documentation. Revolution will build on GameCube’s configuration of 24MBs 1T-SRAM and 16MBs D-RAM (40MBs) by adding an addition 64MBs of 1T-SRAM. The result is a supply of memory in Revolution that totals 104MBs. That number does not consider either the 512MBs of allegedly accessible (but hardly ideal) Flash RAM or the Hollywood GPU’s on-board memory, said to be 3MBs by sources.
Revolution’s Broadway CPU, developed by IBM, is an extension of the Gekko CPU in GameCube, according to official Nintendo documentation passed to us by software houses. The Hollywood GPU, meanwhile, is believed to be an extension of the Flipper GPU in GameCube. Since developers have not gone hands-on with the GPU, they can only go on Nintendo documentation, which is limited.
They’ve also stated that the Revolution’s clock rate might be about twice – or a little less than twice – the amount of GameCube’s.
Definitely a risky move for Nintendo, in a time when people desire better specs and more powerful hardware. Its saving grace, however, might just be the fact that it’s not going to be another $300-400 console. In fact, the article goes as far as suggesting that you might get a Revolution for as low as $99. Even at its originally rumored price of $149, it’s a price you can’t beat.
I’d say it’s going to be a fine little addition to my entertainment area.
That sounds like exactly what my sister would like for her birthday. When does it come out again?
It’s looking a lot like May 9th :)
can i remind you all there is no more graphics war 2 are using ati 1 is using nvidea end of story any slight diverance will be meaningless and take into account ati cannot speak about hollywoods specs its nintendos gpu and nintendos console ati will let ripp with info wen nintendo allow it allso remember nintendos patents in mapping and textures then add to that atis commentsd a console werte specs dont matter his talking new graphics rendering and new levels of efficancie in game graphics of all 3 nxt gen machines will rock why are bill and sony pushing graphics hype well ill tell you becouse it sells and it detracks from a mutch bigger issue only revo has true gyro 3d controls this controller will rock graphics have nothing to doith it the graphics war not that there was one is over like nintendo keep saying to compare visuals next gen is like comparing night andday ice and water meaningless but theres a stronge posabillity that nintendo has a trick up her lovly sleave maybe 3d pop ofthe screen effects or wotever but to base your fanboyizums on graphics this comming generation makes you a moron all 3 will rock but nintendo is the only one taking gaming its self to new places ps3 and 360 in terms of controls and gameplay are obsolete compared to revo but graphicly all are on par and for sony fans to hype graphics is like a blackman hyping the kkk since wen has sonys consoles worked well or had desent graphics both ps1 and 2 stank graphicly didnt they
We have a winner people…
269 words without any punctuation, capitalisation, spell checking and with a racial slur thrown in for good measure.
Congratulations (lack of) “common sence guy”
Cal: Ahahahahah YES!! thank-you.
I really hope you didn’t sit there counting the words, Cal ;)
Hehehe.
No I just copied and pasted into Word and did the word count there; just thought, I hope it wasn’t “copy”righted.
It’s early okay.. give me some time to wake up :)
there isnt any racual comments in there it was a figure of speech how is that a slur i think someones been pc brainwashed and all the other comments made by common sence guy are 100%fact there is no graphics war any more and to add to that nintendo were with ibm and ati a full generation ahead of xbox and sony they are copying nintendos lead and runing with there tails betwen there legs to ibm and ati or nvid please help us make are consoles like nintendos then forgot to upgrade the controls moron sony and bill gates couldnt design a console if they tried bring on the gaming revolution