revolutionaryness

Ars Technica as an interesting rumor article about the specs of Nintendo's Revolution game system. (Hannibal's comments are also worth reading).

If the rumors are true, it would be interesting that Nintendo chose to stick with a good general-purpose CPU rather than the choices made by Sony and Microsoft. From an ease of development, a single general purpose CPU is much easier to take advantage of.

There was also mention of a PPU, something I didn't know if I'd every actually see. Ageia's business model for Novodex (PhysX) is interesting, but I always wondered if getting PC gamers to actually buy a PPU card was a realistic goal. Getting the hardware into a console is another matter, however. As long as the hardware is standard, everyone will try to use it.