Because this is a major new gaming platform reveal, tbh any new major gaming thing should be revealed to the world live on a big stage, especially new hardware.
To show it, use it live in front of the world shows it's really real, where as a prerecorded video can be more easily staged and things can be faked.
It's far more impressive for news outlets to be able to state that "Nintendo revealed their new gaming platform live to the world", rather t...
Hopefully this is a joke.
Anyone thinking the Drive PX2 is being used in a console is off their rocker!
It's confirmed on Nintendo's investor relations page of their website that they have a meeting set for the 26th of this Month, so it would make sense for them to deliver the NX reveal before they do the IR Meeting.
I'm not sure a Direct would quite be enough to show off a new gaming platform for the first time, but Nintendo's own PR have hinted that this could be how it's done.
Jaguar and Puma were basically the same architecture, but with Puma and Puma+ AMD refined the core design to make the architecture more efficient at 28nm, I wouldn't be shocked if those improvements were a part of the current Jaguar architecture being used in the consoles.
Excavator would be a different architecture and would require developers to alter their code to accommodate the new CPU type, which would make for a tonne of work across the board.
MS execs h...
The 8 Core Zen CPU is already too big to pair with a Polaris GPU in a console, plus that CPU is going toe-to-toe with a $1000 Intel CPU for performance, most likely AMD will be releasing it for a competitive price, but it could easily be retailing for $450-$499 by itself, no way will AMD let Microsoft have it for even $200 to put in Scorpio.
Jaguar is more likely, because it's so small (which makes it cheap) at 14/16nm and pairing that with a 36-40CU GPU part would be m...
This is a very ambiguous statement really, he said: "The NX is trying to change the concept of what it means to be a home console device or a hand-held device".
He's not saying it's a hybrid device exactly, this could be interpreted in more than one way.
Going by Iwata's past statement to investors he eluded to Nintendo making an ecosystem, similar to how Apple devices work, with all of them sharing an OS and Apps working universally within th...
Re-read my older posts above, I never said Zen wasn't releasing.
FYI that link is about Zen based notebooks, yields would have to be sufficient to meet the needs of all markets Zen would be used in and this link of yours says nothing about Zen in Scorpio:
The one below outright refutes Zen being in Scorpio, it's pretty recent too:
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@moldy: A 6TFlop GPU isn't going to allow XB1 games that have issues running higher than 900p to manage 4K native resolutions with the graphics that the game has running at 900p, the hardware just won't be capable of that.
When BF1 runs at 720p on the base XB1 then it's going to run at slightly higher than 2X1080p, not 4X1080p (4K).
Scorpio is not going to be capable of running modern 8th generation console and PC games at 4K with the highest or even me...
The Jaguar CPUs used in XB1 and PS4 are clocked slower than the one in PS4 Pro and Scorpio's is likely going to be clocked faster than PS4 Pro's if MS feels it's necessary.
In PS4 the cores are clocked 1.6Ghz, in Xb1 1.75Ghz and in the PS4 Pro it's 2.1Ghz.
Considering games like Doom hit maintain a pretty stable 60FPS upping clock speeds in Jaguar helps to iron out any CPU heavy parts of the game code, GPU improvements would help when GPU heavy code...
Considering that AMD's 8Core Zen bench-marked faster than a $1000 Broadwell-E i7 CPU these people really are clueless, those kinds of CPUs aren't meant for gaming, you'd be looking at something more like $300 i7 or slightly cheaper i5 to run alongside even a GTX 1080, a downclocked RX 480 is fine paired alongside a 2.1Ghz 8 Core Jaguar CPU.
If MS are shooting for a 6TFlop Polaris GPU then simply upclocking the Jaguar to it's top speed of 2.75Ghz would be fin...
Considering you couldn't actually make a decent rebuttal it's clear I'm not the simples one here.
Everything I wrote is fact, there are hard limits on how many chips you can make on a single wafer and still expect to pay reasonable prices, also the size of area you have to work with on a motherboard in a console has it's limits too, BTW 4K isn't happening in all games, not without graphical and frame rate compromises compared to what's been seen on current XB1 games.
Even the base XB1 doesn't do 1080p in all games, it has ones that run at 900p, 720p and ...
It's only the GPU that has that level of a bump in the Scorpio, memory size and bandwidth aren't anywhere near that and also the processing architecture shift isn't that big.
Scorpio will likely have the same CPU too, simply because moving over to something like Zen would make for core that's too big to put in the same piece of silicon as a big GPU like what's in the PS4 Pro.
MS will just have a bigger boosted XBox One that adds extra performance headroom...
Halo 5 could be one of those games that Microsoft uses to show the benefits of Scorpio over the launch XB1 and S systems, so I wouldn't be shocked if 343i are working on a patch for the game for Scorpio owners.
1440p is 2560X1440 or 3,686,400 pixels per frame, yes Halo 5 drops down to 1152X810 on the launch XB1 or 933,120 (if you type "Halo 5 native resolution" into google it shows you how low the res scaling goes) pixels per frame when the engine is under heavy load, s...
A zen CPU isn't happening in any console yet, that type of core is way to big for platform creators to fit 8 of them in the same chip as a 36CU GPU.
Jaguar cores are tiny, which means that they don't take up much space next to the updated GPU.
If people wanted less GPU and to wait until Zen releases, then they could maybe have 4 Zen cores and a 20CU GPU, but you wouldn't be getting GPU performance like the PS4 Pro will be capable of, then Sony would pot...
Or maybe they just want to get the most out of the games they already own or ones that are coming to PS4 in the future.
People aren't sheep because they want to get more out of their software and don't want to wait for the next generation of Playstation hardware.
Halo 5 isn't always 1080p native on the launch Xbox One, it dips down to 1152X810 (933,120 pixels) when the engine is under load, Scorpio is meant to have a GPU with 6Tflops of performance, so say it has a 36 compute unit GPU clocked at 1310Mhz, that would mean it hits 6.026Tflops, divide that by 1.31Tflops of launch XBox One it's 4.6X more powerful than the launch Xbox One.
4K has to render 8,294,400 pixels per frame, that's almost 9X more pixels per frame than Halo 5 re...
PS4 Pro's GPU is actually 3X faster than the XBox One S and more than 2X faster than the launch PS4's.
As for 4K Bluray movie playback, there is a rumor that Sony consciously disabled 4k disc playback in the pro because they have a premium player releasing soon and they're going to release a firmware update to enable that feature once sales for the standalone 4K player drop, bit annoying, but technically if the read speed is the same as a standard blu-ray you co...
@TheOP:
The thing is that Nintendo's core fans are getting fewer and fewer each generation, if they embraced the gamer that buys western 3rd party games and actually make titles for them, then they would actually far more likely sell their style of games that they're known for to a bigger audience, because the platform would be in more people's homes.
Games like The Witchers and CODs, BFs, Sports titles, etc are like the carrots and when peopl...
The level of power consumption Wii U has doesn't support it as only have a GPU with 176Gflops using a 40nm 7000 series Radeon architecture.
A 6670 producing 768GFlops uses 66 watts, Wii U tops out at 34 watts overall, so it can't obviously use even half the raw performance of that GPU architecture, but with it's CPU only using about 1 watt per core and the rest of the system being very light on power consumption the majority of the overall available energy should be usabl...