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.'"

Comments

I still believe some part of it is true.

[JFMulder]

While Sony is developping their own GPU for the PS3, there was no doubt of that in my mind, they may be asking nVidia some sort of insights on vertex and fragment shading, since Sony has probably never implemented that kind of feature into hardware. So maybe they would ask nVidia to design some hardware to stick vertex and fragment shading to their cell processor. Sony may have deep pockets and a big workforce, if they realize that they don't have the resource of competences to deliver fast and cheap vertex and fragment shading hardware, they might turn to some people who do that for a living. Whether nVidia is a good company to turn to is another debate.

Re:Cell Technology

[GaimeGuy]

here's the original announcement of the cell, claiming that 400 million dollars combined were already pledged the Cell. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-948493.html Here's a news story that the Ps3 will NOT use the Cell processor. http://ps2.ign.com/articles/394/394184p1.html And here's an a news story that Sony spent 1.6 billion dollars on a Cell production plant. http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/computers/componen ts/story/0,2000023499,20273860,00.htm