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Possible NVidia Link To PS3 Disputed
Thanks to Gamesindustry.biz for their report that a source close to Sony suggests nVidia's rumored involvement with the PlayStation 3 is 'ridiculous'. According to the article, which dismisses earlier analyst reports, the source claims "...it was a 'ridiculous suggestion' that Sony would look elsewhere for a designer and manufacturer for the graphics processor (GPU) for the future console. 'Sony has its own chip design teams and manufacturing facilities with massive experience in this sort of thing,' he commented. 'Lashing NVIDIA's technology onto the PS3 architecture would simply make no sense either technologically or commercially.'"
-1, Duh.
Seriously, does nVidia (or ATI for that matter) make any non-PC graphics cards or chipsets? MS-ATI made sense as the Xbox is pretty much a PC but as all the 3rd-party PS2 developers already know, the PS2 is a unique beastie!
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- It's the gameplay, stupid!
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
This is exactly what I thought. Sony designed the chips for the PS1 and the PS2, why would they farm out the PS3? It would mean (among other things) sharing the profits. Why would they let their chip teams sit idly by why they send good money to 3rd parties that they, IHMO, don't even need.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
The deal between MS and ATI is annonced... and after a while rumor spreading begins...
PS2 overwhelms Xbox with a ratio that is somewhere in the 1 to 5 and at least in the near future it looks like hard that things will turn into a bed of roses for MS, so it's maybe in Redmond's interests to shift the attention to the next generation of game machines.
Nvdia is no longer the official chipmaker for the MS consoles... maybe producing for the first Xbox was not the King Mida's deal it seemed at first glance, but this isn't exactly the kind of news that makes shareholders explode of joy, and rumors about a possible deal with Sony for the PS3 will surely help theirs morale.
Sony on its side, after two sledgehammer consoles is working on number three, its position is of course enviable but its rivals are quite tough: a neverending cash company that usually crushs every competitor and a toymaker that has more fanatic disciples than an ayatollah and that year after year, despite a shrinking market share, earns tons of pokemoney... so if "mo' rumors mo' hype" still working (it should) mr. Kutaragi and friends will surely appreciate any kind of rumors about PS3.
Sounds a little a sort of "my rumors are bigger than yours" indeed.
riight. Nintendo has about 8 billion dollars in cash, and if you factor in assets, probably over 10 billion. :) Ok, I'm done now.
What's with calling them a "toy" company? They make video game consoles. and they earn money from not just pokemon, but all of their games, and liscensing fees to 3rd parties on the GBA and GC. Sorry if I sound like a fanboy, but calling Nintendo a "toy company" just sounds a little bit insulting when I hear it. Yeah, Nintendo is losing marketshare in consoles, but so is Sony, because there were THREE consoles this generation, not just two. If you factor in the GBA, Nintendo holds over 55 percent of the market share in the video game industry... kind of big for a simple toy company, no?