Dear Reader:
Mystery of the Wii specs solved
A member over at Ars Technica poured through the rumored Wii specs…and realized that he had seen those specs somewhere before…
Oh, waitaminute… I’m sorry. Those are specs I copied and pasted from one of the many pages of unofficial Gekko documentation that I was able to dig up on Google with a few keystrokes. The MaxConsole list features the same data, in the same order, with a few phrasing tweaks and the MHz numbers revised upwards.
For what it’s worth, I even went back to my own archive of official GameCube docs to verify the specs above, and I picked through the MaxConsole post looking for something that might set their information apart as different from Gekko–an enlarged buffer, a reduced latency, a new functional block, anything–but I came up empty-handed.
Well that clears up that rumor!