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http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/revolution.ars
Since Nintendo probably won't be revealing any of its technical speculations anytime soon this article was written up to do a very in depth analysis of Nintendo and determine what its processor might be based on that. I have to say it certainly seemed to be very unbiased which is very good.
Anyway one of the key points I think was that he believes the Revolution will be the easiest to develop for and it will excell in things like AI and physics while the 360 and PS3 may have problems in those areas:
Since Nintendo probably won't be revealing any of its technical speculations anytime soon this article was written up to do a very in depth analysis of Nintendo and determine what its processor might be based on that. I have to say it certainly seemed to be very unbiased which is very good.
Anyway one of the key points I think was that he believes the Revolution will be the easiest to develop for and it will excell in things like AI and physics while the 360 and PS3 may have problems in those areas:
Broadway's tradeoff of TLP for cache space will give it an edge over Cell and Xenon in gameplay-enhancing AI, physics, and control code. Furthermore, this edge could last for the life of the next generation of consoles.