I think Nintendo took the advantage that most of their games were more oriented for kid-like games that didN't require good graphics as much and spent most of their time trying to find an innovative way to entertain people, and the hardware suffered. Once new systems comes out the Wii will fall behind pretty quick in sales, though, and now they compete vs the Kinect and PS Move.

And yeah fonts are adjustable on the Nspire. I just mean that if TI decides to use a higher res screen, they'll need to make sure to do like Casio and adjust text size in consequence.

And I'm glad to hear that there's no fanboyism intended. Sometimes online some comments comes accross as that since this happens a lot on game/programming-oriented sites.

I think Nintendo took the advantage that most of their games were more oriented for kid-like games that didN't require good graphics as much and spent most of their time trying to find an innovative way to entertain people, and the hardware suffered.

That is quite likely, however the other possibility is that it is far cheaper to use older, slower components, thus increasing net profit.

Once new systems comes out the Wii will fall behind pretty quick in sales, though, and now they compete vs the Kinect and PS Move.

I'm sure they are working on a motion sensing peripheral right now.

And yeah fonts are adjustable on the Nspire. I just mean that if TI decides to use a higher res screen, they'll need to make sure to do like Casio and adjust text size in consequence.

If they ever choose to use a high quality, high resolution screen I'm sure they would make the fonts readable. Such an event is exceedingly unlikely, given TI's cheap habits, because high quality screens are very expensive.

Here's a three-minute video of CX hardware action that I found on TI's YouTube channel.



I facepalmed when I heard what music they had picked...

Well, at least the screen's response time is better.
It looks like the CX is still underpowered, as there is still lag in the menus. Also, the 3d graphing resolution and speed was kinda lame. I really hope the CX2 will have at least a 500Mhz ARM9 CPU... See video below for what even a crappy first-gen iPhone can do:

TI isn't exactly known for writing optimized code. But aside from that, the iPhone has a 3D graphics processor. It's not really fair to compare that to a software renderer.