POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.off-topic: Processing power is not always what sells, it seems: Processing power is not always what sells, it seems

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Processing power is not always what sells, it seems : Processing power is not always what sells, it seems		Server Time 29 Sep 2024 03:15:42 EDT (-0400)

From: Warp
Date: 9 Jul 2009 08:40:37
Message: <4a55e545@news.povray.org>

Somehow it seems that Nintendo has understood some basic truth about
computing: It's not processing power that sells. Consider this:

  Xbox 360: Triple-core CPU at 3.2 GHz, 512 MB of RAM.
  Units sold: 30 million.

  PS3: A 3.2 GHz Cell microprocessor, which consists of one PowerPC-based
core and six SPE cores, 256 MB of RAM.
  Units sold: 22 million.

  Nintendo Wii: A single-core CPU at 729 MHz, 88 MB of RAM.
  Units sold: 50 million.


  PlayStation Portable: 333 MHz CPU, 32 MB of RAM (plus 2 MB of GPU RAM).
  Units sold: 50 million.

  Nintendo DS: A 67 MHz main CPU and a 33 MHz coprocessor, 4 MB of RAM.
  Units sold: 100 million.


  On a different note, North-American release of:

NES: 1985 (1986 in Canada)
SNES: 1991
N64: 1996
GameCube: 2001
Wii: 2006

  Do we see a pattern here?-)

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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