3DS Nintendo hardware specifications leaked

IGN claims to accept accustomed the accouterments specs on Nintendo’s accessible 3D-enabled handheld, the Nintendo 3DS, from a antecedent that traded the data for anonymity. According to the source, the 3DS will accommodate “two 266MHz ARM11 CPUs, forth with a 133MHz GPU, 4MBs of committed VRAM, 64MBs of RAM, and 1.5GBs of beam storage.” The 3DS aswell employs the use of an SD agenda aperture in adjustment to accommodate abundant storage.

Though absolutely which aberration of the ARM11 processor would be acclimated is currently unknown, the Zune HD, assorted Android phones, and earlier versions of the iPhone and iPod Touch use ARM11 processors.

According to Digital Foundry, the accouterments is composed mainly of bargain parts; they aswell admonish us that IGN has a history of aperture authentic Nintendo-related information. Admitting IGN claims that “numerous developers alive on software for the belvedere accept likened its graphical capabilities to current-generation consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, admitting on smaller, lower-resolution screens,” the absolute specs of the accouterments and official screenshots say otherwise.

Although these specs may abort some, accomplishing something affiliated to PlayStation 2 bearing cartoon (the 64MB of RAM is the exact bulk as the PSP-2000 that appear in 2007, while the 4MB of VRAM is the exact aforementioned bulk begin in the PS2 if it appear in 2000), the ability of the 3DS seems to carefully resemble Nintendo’s own Wii. Sadly, for some aboriginal proponents of the 3DS’s power, the absolute allegory amid the Wii and 3DS processors puts the Wii’s advanced even if you add both 3DS processors together, as able-bodied a puts the Wii’s GPU advanced of the 3DS’s. Both systems accept about the aforementioned bulk of RAM, but the 3DS does action three times the onboard accumulator as the Wii. Even admitting the Wii seems added able than the 3DS based on the leaked specs, the 3DS seems to attending added graphically absorbing because it’s employing the use of “per-pixel lighting, procedural textures, refraction mapping and self-shadowing,” a amount of tricks to accomplish up for the abridgement of per-pixel shading, on a awning abundant abate than a television screen.

So, while some may be aghast that these declared specs assume to be as able as last-gen equipment, they can yield alleviation in the glasses-less 3D technology and the cogent advancement in ability from the accepted DSi.