Nintendo's new console may be "taking the Wii" in the naming department... ::)

But there's ONE reason you'll need one soon! ;D

Zelda - Twilight Princess 8)

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/746/746691p1.html

WOOT! ;)

I totally agree.

;)

And even without the new Zelda (which will come out on the GC too), there are many reasons for not buying an Xbox360 nor a PS3, but go for a Wii.

:P

and guess what the VPU is based on ;)

ATi's R500, same VPU used in PlayStation3 and XBOX 360 lol, the only difference is the gameplay, disc support design.

the R500 has the following specs :)

   * 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
   * 10 MB of embedded DRAM
   * Unified Shader Architecture
   * 500 million triangles per second
   * 16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4x MSAA
   * 48 billion shader operations per second
   * 512 MB of 700 Mhz GDDR3 RAM (shared by VPU & CPU)
   * 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
   * 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
   * 21.6 GB/s FSB
   * Parentdie: 232 miljoen transistors, daughterdie: 105 miljoen transistors = 337 mln transistors


Alot like our R580's hey :) only the R580 is about 2x as powerfull.

R500 vs R580
ROPs: 8 vs 16
Memory interface: 128-bit vs 256-bit
Memory speed: 700Mhz GDDR3 vs 775Mhz GDDR
Memory bandwidth: 22,4GB/s vs 49,6GB/s
Pixelshaderengines: 48* vs 48
Vertexshaderengines: 48* vs 8
Fragment Pipes: 3 vs 16
Z/Stencils per clock: 16** vs 16

The Graphics look so good thanx to ATi's great R500 VPU ;)

Quote:

same VPU used in PlayStation3 and XBOX 360 lol

Dude - PS3 uses nVidia's RSX GPU... ::)

http://www.ps3power.com/ps3hardwarespecs.htm

It's only the X360 and Wii that use ATI based GPU's ;)

wrote on 21.11.06 at 02:20:59:

http://www.ps3power.com/ps3hardwarespecs.htm

only dolby surround 5.1
:o I was expecting least 7.1 >:(

wrote on 21.11.06 at 02:20:59:

Dude - PS3 uses nVidia's RSX GPU... ::) http://www.ps3power.com/ps3hardwarespecs.htm It's only the X360 and Wii that use ATI based GPU's ;)

hmm it used to be planned that ATi was gonna make the VPU's for the PS3 aswell, shame that they are gonna go for an nvidia chip  :-/

Otherwise folding @ home on a PS3 with an ATi GPU wouldn't be possible:
http://www.overclockersclub.com/?read=5642948

Oh well maybe Sone changed thier minds to go nvidimania lol I was kinda confused, at first I thought they were gonna use ATi VPU's hehe oh well wrong was I here  and right you were Paul  ;)

Then again -  maybe not! ::)

Turns out it's a port from the G.C.: -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Legend-Zelda-Twilight-Princess-GameCube/dp/B0009UBR3A

I've got my pre-order in! (Play.com will also have stock) 8)

As for new Wii exclusives - well, there's always... :D

METROID PRIME 3: CORRUPTION 8)

http://wii.ign.com/articles/706/706030p1.html

WOOT AGAIN! ;D

GCN version of Zelda - Twilight Princess now delayed to 15/12/06... :P

...c'mon Ninty, we wanna play it! ::)