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Sega, Nintendo Team Up To Create New Graphics Board

Posted by Hemos on from the making-things-look-pretty dept.

TimWeigel writes "The Daily Yomiuri is reporting that Sega, Nintendo and Namco are teaming up to create a new commercial graphics board. This new board, the Triforce (tip o' the hat to all the Zelda fans), will reportedly be based on the hardware in the GameCube. The article indicates it will be targeted towards new game consoles, as well as "similar products". A prototype is scheduled to be demonstrated at the 2002 AOU Amusement Expo on 22 Feb."

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  1. ATI? by iotaborg · · Score: 4, Informative

    Last I checked the gamecube had an ATI board... so if it is based on the gamecube, wouldn't this new board be an ATI? Where is ATI in the mix of this anyway...

  2. Arcade board, not graphics board by Taurine · · Score: 3, Informative

    The story is wrong. Its an arcade board, not a graphics board. This is like a console but for producing arcade games instead, just like there was an arcade version of the Dreamcast sort of (it was of course more powerful), (the Naomi?), and also an arcade version of the PlayStation (the arcade Ridge Racer machine was built on it).

  3. Triforce has probably been around longer by SonicBurst · · Score: 5, Informative
    Triforce has been around since the first zelda, circa 1987, IIRC. Anyone know when nvidia came on to the scene? I don't think it was pre-1987.

    If that's the case, nvidia probably wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

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  4. Re:ATI? by jacoplane · · Score: 3, Informative

    The board "flipper" was actually developed by a company called ArtX, which has since been aquired by ATI.

  5. Re:Intresting, but is it really useful? by .pentai. · · Score: 3, Informative

    that would be the Model 2 and Model 3...
    Sega AM2 is one of Sega's 10 software teams along with Sonic Team, Sega Rosso, WOW Entertainment, Hitmaker, Wavemasters (GODS of video game music), Overworks, Amusement Vision, Smilebit, and UGA.