New Nintendo Revolution specs?

[wraggster]

So apparently this dude who works at Factor 5 (they’ve done some Star Wars games) who goes by Han Solo has some supposedly leaked specs of the Revolution, which if they’re real might give the box a bit more of a fighting chance than we’d originally anticipated. Keep in mind this is the same person, we understand, who leaked some nearly dead on specs of the Xbox 360 before it was announced. Now, we could do a whole long article giving a prospective in-depth analysis on whose specs trump whose between the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and these rumored Revolution specs, but we’ll just give you what Han Solo says it should feature: a multithreaded PowerPC 2.5 GHz with 256 KB L1 cache and 1 MB of L2 cache (diff from the dual-core 1.8GHz CPU with 512KB L2 cache we heard about before), a Physical Processing Chip (PPU) with 32MB of dedicated RAM, 512MB of system RAM (we heard it would have 256MB of main DRAM before), a custom ATI “RN520” 600MHz CPU with 256MB of RAM (that’s about what we’d heard, but 128MB of RAM). Apparently the device will support external resolutions up to 2048 x 1268 though HD support is still as yet undecided, and it will have 7.1 surround, too. Doesn’t sound too shabby, but as always get your grain of salt on.

[Cap'n 1time]

hah.. powerPC? i dont think so.

[Zaneblade]

its not true at all... the main reason i know is that ign have not said anythin about it and they talk 2 nintendo directly to ask if it is true... also all that couldnt fit into something the size or 3 DVD cases ontop of each other

[BlueCrab]

I'd like to know why you say it wouldn't? After all, a Mac Mini (which has a PowerPC G4, hard drive, dvd drive, etc) all fits in about that size frame.

[ziggy]

Why is it so important to keep the size of a home console so small? If the problem is fitting all that power into such a small space why not make it a tad bigger?

[BlackAura]

hah.. powerPC? i dont think so.

The PS3 has a PowerPC-derived CPU. The Xbox 360 has a PowerPC-derived CPU. The Gamecube uses a full IBM PowerPC. So what's the problem?

[Cap'n 1time]

because i like talking out my ass sometimes.

also because nintendo.. is just weird when it comes to hardware.. Its hard to believe they would use the same hardware twice.