Revolution: "It's like a souped up Xbox"

[Paco]

Numbers are fun. The PS2 had the fastest CPU of all three consoles but was clearly the lesser in terms of graphics. The Xbox is capable of 25 million polygons while the Gamecube tops out around 18 million but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone to say that Resident Evil 4 was less impressive than, say, Ninja Gaiden.

The Revolution will be impressive, but it's very obvious it won't be as powerful as the 360 or PS3. It just wouldn't make sense for a single processor CPU, said to be two to three times as powerful as the Gamecube (coming in somewhere between 1 ghz to 2ghz), to compare to a triple core CPU, each core clocked in at 3.2 GHz.

As far as the output goes...I agree that the 512MB of RAM on board the 360 and PS3 are there for HD output, but it's going to allow for richer textures all around. It takes a HDTV to truly appreciate them but it's not as if you can't tell the difference on a regular TV. Again, I don't doubt the Rev will be impressive, but I can't help but think it silly to say they'll be on par.

Having said that, I don't believe that the Revolution needs to be on par with the 360 and PS3 because they're going to offer different game experiences. The 360 and PS3 are heading down a similar path of last generation, but everything is bigger and prettier. Nintendo has made it clear they are heading in an entirely new direction.