POWERVR Graphics on the ps vita...

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Even if Nintendo was able to use ARM 15 it still would have delayed the system in a few ways and would have been a power drop from the Power 7 based CPU the Wii U is using.

The delay would have been for hardware and the software. The devs talked at E3 about how their engines & APIs were done and only needed some adjusting for the Wii U because all the consoles are Power PC based.

 

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Now that both the Wii U and PSV are announed i am more looking forward to what will power PS4 and Xbox(3).

Anyone think they are going to have DX11 capabilities?

The Xbox (3) will probably be DX12 capable and the PS4 will have a GPU that's at least DX11 compatible. I'm going to bet that both consoles will just be updates of the current designs. Hex or Octo core CPU with a on die GPU (probably AMD) with hopefully 8gigs of ram and at least a 4x BD-ROM Drive. I'm just curious to see if the PS4 will still use a cell cluster, personally I hope they do. It's been great for the graphics & physics in the games.

It's very cool that the new Xbox is using a PowerPC based APU design.