June 23, 2006
NEC Electronics and MoSys, Inc. have officially announced the inclusion of their respective memory technologies in the Wii console from Nintendo. The companies confirmed that they are supplying Nintendo with 1T-SRAM technology and eDRAM technology, respectively.
The new system LSI chips featuring NEC's 90-nanometer CMOS-compatible embedded DRAM (eDRAM) will be manufactured using "advanced technologies" on NEC Yamagata's 300-millimeter production lines, and are "designed to provide advanced graphics functions" for the forthcoming Wii console.
eDRAM integrates DRAM on the same chip with logic circuits, and according to NEC this technology "is viewed as an optimal solution for three-dimensional (3D) graphics acceleration systems and other applications that need to process high bandwidth data using low power."
Nintendo Hardware Partners Confirm Wii Components
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Nintendo Japan has announced the Web Browser for Nintendo DS will go on sale from July 24th reports New Launches.
Opera will be used and the browser will be sold as DS / GBA dual catridge with different version for the DS Lite. Browsing is done using the inbuilt Wi-Fi capabilities of DS.
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The latest issue of Nintendo Power confirms that at least six titles will make the North American launch of the Nintendo Wii.
The list includes Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen at the Tower of Mirrors, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Red Steel, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, and finally The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
There’s no hint of Mario in Nintendo’s starting line-up writes T3
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June 19, 2006
Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) has gone on sale on the web despite not being launched until November this year.
The next generation consoles are on offer as "pre-orders" to Europeans for 550 Euro ($1,020) at online shop, play.com.
The website says that because of an expected European shortage, it cannot guarantee delivery before Christmas reports BBC
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June 7, 2006
Japanese game software and console maker Nintendo Co. said on Wednesday it is unlikely to lose much money on the launch of its new "Wii" video game console, in sharp contrast to rival Sony Corp., which expects a hefty loss on the debut of its PlayStation 3.
Nintendo expects limited losses from Wii launch
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According to technology site theinquirer, Sony's PS3 (PlayStation 3)'s hardware is slow and broken.
Cell memory access appears to be broken, RSX has half the triangle setup rate of the ATI chip in XBox360, and the true horror, Big Momma's House 2 and a Queen Latifa movie.
For some reason , I think theinquirer hates Sony. I have yet to see a favorable PS3 story on that site.
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In an interview with PC Watch, a japanese software/ hardware news site , Ken Kutaragi of Sony Japan revealed plans for a Higher End PS3 in the future.
Here are some other bits from Interview
- games on PS3 are running on the PS3 with "basic configuration"
- software will have different relationship with hardware (including non-gaming applications) in the future
- software module will be made inside the PS3 (such as OS?) so PS3 will have no problem adopting new hardware parts (this doesn't mean you can upgrade but just different versions of PS3)
- thus two models of PS3 are actually two different configurations, there might be other configurations in future, such as: enhanced version of CELL, more memory etc. The higher-end model of PS3 might be released in future.
Seen at evilavatar
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June 1, 2006
New research from The Diffusion Group suggests that Microsoft will likely leverage its Xbox franchise to enter the portable game console (PGC) market in late 2007 or early 2008. According to TDG's latest report, On the Future of Portable Game Consoles: Analysis & Forecasts, Microsoft is expected to embed a portable multimedia player in a handheld gaming platform similar in many respects to Sony's PSP.
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