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

[Paco]

Why not? Nintendo will be focusing on just normal res, so they'll be putting a lot more effort into making it look good at normal resolution. In addition, it is true that a lot of the additional system power of the X360 and PS3 is used for high resolutions... for instance, that RAM. Given how screens are displayed, you do need like 3 times more RAM to display the same image at 720p instead of 480p... so that 108 or whatever megs of RAM in the Revolution isn't as bad as it seems. Similarly, the normal DVD size media is just fine for most all games, since the main advantage of bigger discs is for high-res textures... of course, the lower res means the games won't look as good in screenshots and on HDTVs, but I see no reason why Nintendo can't make them look comparable on normal TVs. The Revolution, after all, is much more powerful than the GC or Xbox.

You're making the assumption that the textures are the only thing to benefit from the extra horsepower and RAM. I can't imagine that being anything close to an accurate statement.

I never said that the Revolution was "bad" in anyway. I just think it's absolutely silly to say that it's on par with either of the other two consoles from a technical perspective.

As for the CPU itsself, maybe it doesn't require 3x more power just to display 720p instead of 480p, but it definitely uses more. Revolution, I expect, will be closer looking than people expect when viewed at 640x480 or less (given that normal TVs can only do up to 480i, I believe...).

No doubt that a hi-res display takes that extra power but any developer should be able to do more with more resources. There's no question that the 360 has more to work with than the Revolution is there? (with the rumored specs anyway)