Even More Revolution Figures Revealed News

In the continued absence of official specifications IGN has once again been playing the guessing game when it comes to the Nintendo Revolution, suggesting further details from an "inside source".

According to the source the Revolution's "Broadway" CPU has a clock speed of 729 MHz, whilst the "Hollywood" GPU runs at 243MHz; although clock speeds aren't the only means to judging a processor's performance, these figures put the Revolution comparatively faster then those of the GameCube's "Gekko" (485 MHz) and "Flipper" (162 MHz) chips respectively.

The source further alleges that the Revolution will contain 24MB of 1T-SRAM (unique memory combining speed of SRAM and the capacity of DRAM), along with an additional 64MB of external 1T-SRAM that can be accessed as quickly as the main allocation.

Figures such as these immediately scream of a generation behind what the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 are capable of, however it's worth remembering that specifications such as these mean very little when they're not taken into account with the overall picture of what the Revolution is all about.

Perhaps the most intriguing claim from the original IGN article is the suggestion that Nintendo was working on Revolution styled controller devices for the GameCube, as part of the push for innovative peripherals that the Japanese giant confirmed back in 2004.

Whether or not the Revolution is just a souped up GameCube with the device now intact and of course the Virtual Console, remains unknown at this stage, however it does little to deter our anticipation for what is truly a fresh start for the videogame industry.