Keine Revolution bis Mitte 2006

Nintendo's permanent memory partner, MoSys, has let it slip that it will supply memory for the game company's next console, codenamed Revolution, expected to ship in mid-2006.

During a conference call, MoSys CEO Mark Voll said; We are excited to be a participating member of the Nintendo team once again as Nintendo will roll out its successor game console to the GameCube in mid-2006.

This date makes sense as it matches Sony's plans for the PS3, also expected to launch mid-2006. It seems that Microsoft may have a time advantage over its two rivals as the latest news suggests XBox 360 is heading for a November 2005 launch.

Nintendo is expected to offer a Revolution preview in a pre-E3 event but details are unlikely to be revealed at that time.
If you thought that Nintendo was impervious to leaks however, you were mistaken as a set of hardware specifications for the Revolution console have begun doing the web rounds. The specs seem very plausible but don't expect any official confirmation/denial any time soon.

Die Revolution specs currently doing the rounds are as follows:

Four 2.5Ghz IBM G5 Custom cores with 128KB of level 1 cache and a 512KB shared level 2 cache. ATI will offer a dual core RN520 chipset with a 16 MB on-board eDRAM frame buffer.