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

[A Black Falcon]

Isn't a GPU basically a type of videocard? Those are important. The thing could have a gig of memory on it for all we know.

Um... GPU means Graphics Processing Unit, so it's not "a kind of videocard" it IS a videocard... even if in this case it's just a chip, not a whole board. :)

RAM: More is better. Sure since this isn't a PC not quite as much is needed, but still... PC games use lots of RAM... I can't see any reason why console games wouldn't need just as much, and that's just today's games... lots of PC games these days would really like you to have at least 512mb ram. So 100mb does seem a bit small... but the GC did great with 40mb, so it's not that bad. It's just that it's a smaller jump up than previous generations, because of how Nintendo isn't trying to completely keep the graphical pace with everyone else... will it work? Quite possibly... as I've seen said many times, Nintendo fans will buy the Revolution anyway and nongamers, the other target market, won't buy just because of graphics; if they haven't so far, why should they now? That's why the 'expanding the market' focus is on new control schemes and different kinds of games... just look at the DS. :) So the worse graphics shouldn't hurt that much, even if it is annoying in several years when lots of people have HDTVs but Revolution still only supports 640x480. Oh well... there's no way a smaller company like Nintendo can keep pace with Sony and MS, so they've got to try something different...