Intel are going to have a hard time convincing anyone if they can't get the chip up to scratch. Nvidia has burnt their bridges with Sony and MS, while ATI are still in good stead for MS and Nintendo.

It would be pointless for Nintendo to take that route. They don't need to make a powerhouse console to make money. Their target audience as of now doesn't seem to give a crap about graphics very much, and it would take Nintendo more than one generation to ease themselves back into the normal "hardcore" market.

I can imagine some situation where Nintendo could appeal to me if they started making hardcore games now, and then next generation, with much more powerful hardware, they could make fantastic sequels, kind of like what Sony did with the Killzone franchise.

Maybe Nintendo will release a beast of a console and with it The Conduit 2 and a Metroid sequel that really shows off their hardware, but as of now, Nintendo is still content with the laid-back, E-rated games that they offer.

Kaveti,
The same thing they did for motion controls can be done for gfx too.
Its called marketing. Nintendo just needs to convince people that GFX are important too, this gen they just said its not so important just to back up their controller.

Next gen they will just pretend they never said such thing.

Nintendo makes video game consoles, not entertainment centers.

Actually they also hooked up with IBM remember?
So this doesn't seem unlikely. If the chips are modified to their needs and its low cost, why not?

cause Larrabee is too much power for nintendos "WAYS"

Nintendo ways? Are these the same ways that help shift 50 million Wii's 100+ million DS's and has survived everything gaming can throw at it.

Not only have Nintendo singlehandely shaped gaming they are continuing to do so with the wii.

Sure it's about as powerful as a 2 Gamecubes it's sure as hell one great machine which has changed gaming.

Its not canned, its pushed back to research platforms.

Larrabee isn't meant to push the envelope either. It's just Intel's attempt at try to make a GPU that's good enough for at least some gamers. It won't be able to compete with the top of the line GPU's though.

It would actually be quite a good choice for Nintendo, since it's a CPU with a GPU integrated. This allows for a MUCH smaller motherboard design, and thus a more efficient, cheaper and sleek console.

What Kakkoii said. I believe Nintendo said that their next console would be even more compact than the Wii, which would make the Larrabee a smart choice.

After the gdc I felt like they where they way to go but now after seeing the real chip and it's specs I doubt it.

First the power it takes just to run the chip is pretty crazy. Nvidia is having the same problem Alos with fermi. I don't want a nintendo console that is louder than my pc. I'm sure nintendo would counter by asking them about atom instead. Another thing is every one is in the dark about what ati and IBM are doing for nintendo.

True the cell development has stopped yet what about future nintendo projects? AMD will be readying fusion also and the hd5000 cards are currently the only cards that can actualy do direct x 11 only effects.

Just looking at nintendos past...

They like fast media... Carts to any form of solid state memory. It scales pretty well and gets cheaper as processes shrink it.
They love open gl mostly only use Maya. Once they did push for powerful graphics till they over shot their customers with the gc. ( most ps2 devs did not want or need better graphic then hd gamers are mostly pc converts).

The wii is silly easy to code for hell I think you cane even use unity which is free last time I checked , which years ago. Another thing is the wii has the last fix function shader piple around. It's going to be crazy to see what they can make with better hardware.

Unless intel can add a huge discount on top of this chip I don't see nintendo using it. Would it crush the current hd gen sure it's eq to 5 gens removed pcs gpu wise almost.

Yet I see ati producing the next gpu for them and the CPU as being up in the air. Yet I bet IBM gets that also or possible annouce a joint dev chip with amd which would be sort of sick I would love to see what amd could do to support SRAM in large pools like a gig.

Wouldn't it be funny if the next wii is like a table pc that you can out put to tvs! That would be so sweet. You can already out put an iPhone to a tv convergence of the handheld market would totaly x out most competition though.

The biggest thing with nintendo is can normal people who buy consoles afford this with the addition of a resession. Basicly I'm sure nintendo is asking so what can we get that is priced at $250 max.