Project Cafe: The Tech Behind Nintendo's Abutting Console

Project Cafe: The Tech Behind Nintendo's Abutting Console

New pricing, hardware, design, and absolution advice uncovered.

More capacity of Nintendo's accessible console, codenamed Activity Cafe aka Wii 2, accept been appear to IGN, including the system's estimated pricing, release, animate design, processing architecture, and name.

According to sources with ability of the project, Nintendo's abutting animate could accept a retail amount of anywhere amid $350 and $400 based on accomplishment costs, and will address from Taiwanese manufacturer, Foxconn, this October, putting the ancient accessible retail absolution anywhere amid mid-October and aboriginal November.

However, Nintendo could additionally opt to body up a ample accumulation of the arrangement and admeasure added time forcomputer application and amateur development by ablution in aboriginal 2012. Similarly, Nintendo could attack to lower the retail amount of the arrangement with lower accumulation margins to accomplish the amount added alluring.

Since the accomplishment is demography abode in Taiwan, the earthquakes and tsunami that hit Japan aftermost ages will not appulse the animate accouterments as ahead expected.

Additionally, IGN has abstruse that the arrangement will be based on a revamped adaptation of AMD's R700 GPU architecture, not AMD's Fusion technology as ahead believed, which will, as ahead reported, out accomplish the PlayStation 3's NVIDIA 7800GTX-based processor. Like the Xbox 360, the system's CPU will be a custom-built triple-core IBM PowerPC chipset, but the clocking speeds will be faster. The arrangement will abutment 1080p achievement with the abeyant for stereoscopic 3D as well, admitting it has not been bent whether that will be a basic feature.

In agreement of the architectonics of the animate itself, the all-embracing admeasurement will be commensurable to that of the aboriginal Xbox 360 and the arrangement is acceptable to resemble a avant-garde adaptation of the Super Nintendo Entertainment Arrangement (SNES).

As appear aftermost week, it will absolutely advance controllers with chip touchscreens and be able of alive amateur to anniversary controller, admitting accustomed the ability of the system, could additionally conceivably accommodate a virtualized animate for anniversary alone unit.

Finally, Nintendo is because allotment the animate Stream, admitting it is potentially one of several names currently actuality vetted by the company.

We contacted Nintendo representatives, but they beneath to animadversion on "rumors or speculation."