Rumor: Nintendo Set to reveal HD Wii at E3

[gekko]

Originally Posted by Angrist

Yeah but the Wii was faster than the XBox and GameCube. Now the Yuu won't even be as fast as the PS3?? That's just not thinking ahead.

Define "faster." The Wii isn't all that different from the GameCube, and it lacks features found on the original Xbox.

Also, journalists love numbers that make good headlines. "Wii 1.5-2 times faster than GameCube." What does faster even mean? CPU clock speed? GPU clock speed? Memory access speeds? It's all pretty meaningless without the details. And looking at the Wii's GPU, it may be faster, but still way behind the times in terms of its feature set.

I'm curious to see if they get DX11-level hardware. I certainly would expect nothing less from the next consoles, but they're still running fixed-function hardware, so going from 0 shaders to 6 would be a bit of a jump. Also interested to see what type of CPU they go with, and if they're ever going to give us surround sound.