The 360 has a tri-core server CPU, this has a Cortex8 phone CPU.
The 360 has a radeon GPU that renders at 640p typically, this has a Tegra 2 phone GPU that renders at less than half that.
Is it powerful? Sure, but it’s really not that impressive. My phone is less then half the size and has just as much power.
no the 360 typically renders in 720p, there are just some games (CoD) that render in 640p because IW are incompetent, anyway, it seems that Capcom can still put 360 level detail into 3DS games due to the lower resolution, have you seen Resident Evil Revelations? (about 0:38 into the video) it looks like Resident Evil 5, on a freaking handheld. I guess lower resolutions really do help with low power hardware.
Its not an advancement. The technology has been there for years.
lower res means less pixels to render. Winrar
Looking at the vid you linked, syntax, looks like the models are pretty high-poly compared to the ds. Also, notice the use of normal maps… That RE footage looks AMAZING for a handheld! I’m also glad they added the joystick-like thing to the 3ds (again, from your footage). I think i prefer those to the traditional 4-directional buttons.
Halo is the 360s yard stick? When did this happen, those games have never been about graphics as much as scale and the variable AI Bungie has always been so damn proud of, that’s why Gears 2, Alan Wake, and all of Capcom’s games bar Dead Rising look better than them, besides I’m pretty sure Reach is 720p as are Resident Evil 5, Devil May Cry 4, Gears of War 2 and Alan Wake, all three look better than Halo Reach.
Anyways, just to compare how different these resolutions are:
The monitor I really want = 2560x1600 = 4,096,000 pixels
720p = 1280?720 = 921,600 pixels
My phone = 800?480 = 384,000 pixels
3DS = 800?240 = 192,000 pixels
Simple terms: The 3DS screen is 20% as many pixels as the 360 outputs. That also means that the 3DS only needs a GPU 30% as fast (not a linear thing) to render the EXACT same image.
Same argument applies with ‘3DS more powerful than Wii’, it’s rendering less then half the pixels.
3DS is more “powerful” than the gamecube. It also has better graphics than Wii. Not egual to 360 but iabout in between the two. Btw it is new technology because its never been released before…making it new… its obviously never been used for video games.
Tegra 2 is not all that. In raw processing power, I would put it between the N64 and GC. In feature set, in between the Wii and 360.
As for the 3D: It requires no additional processing power. The image is simply being rendered onto 2 400x240 screens that are interwoven, creating a 800x240 display (with only 400x240 pixels visible).
