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Nvidia Partners with Sony on PS3 GPU
Anonymous Coward writes "Just a rumour last year, but it looks like Sony and Nvidia will be partnering for the PS3. Sony will be doing the manufacturing in one of their Nagasaki plants." From the article: "The move signals a shifting of allegiances for NVIDIA, who developed the graphics hardware at the heart of the original Microsoft Xbox, only for the Redmond-based platform holder to turn around and partner with fierce rivals ATI for 'future Xbox products' last August."
Does this mean the PS3 is going to have supplier logos on it like the GameCube?
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- Which will ship first? PS3 or GT4?
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
in a nice coincidence, less than 2 minutes after seeing this headline, my stock broker called and told me that the nVidia stock I bought last year was finally out of it's $9 dollar hole and almost back to breaking even. all we need now is for Nintendo to announce they're going with nVidia for their next console and maybe I'll have made some money in this stock market thing.
Well, I'm actually glad that Nvidia has found a new dance partner after the falling out with Microsoft with respect to the next Xbox. With both Nvidia and ATI now firmly in the console wars as competitors, I think gamers are in for some serious treats. I just hope that gameplay won't be lost in all of that eye-candy!
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It's IBM all around, with Microsoft and Nintendo going with ATI. Sony's going with NVidia, and probably some hacked together backwards compat solution which will make developing for the thing a bitch.
Interesting. Can't wait to see how this is gonna go...
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Playstation 3, Nforce4, Nforce5, SLI, Geforce 6xxx I want stock.
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Congratulations to Slashdot for finally reporting the most important news of the day.
Microsoft turned their back on nVidia because nVidia would not deal on Microsofts terms.
What makes nVidia so certain that Sony being easier to deal with then Microsoft?
And what makes Sony feel good about keeping the PS3 manufacuring costs down when Microsoft could not get a deal with Nvidia which would let the X-Box be cheaper to manufacture?
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ATi is really a much better fit for MS than nVidia. Working on the Xbox's graphics only set nVidia back, and from what I've heard, they had to fight with Microsoft nearly every step of the way. As nVidia favors OpenGL, it was quite a struggle for them to make the Xbox API more OpenGL-like, despite Microsoft's pressure. ATi, on the other hand, basically makes DirectX accelerators (witness their terrible OpenGL performance. Also, ATi and Microsoft's corporate cultures are much more similar. I doubt there will be nearly as much tension as nVidia had with MS.
This is so awesome! If I had nVidia stock I'd be ric...wait a minute.
XBOX2 (or XBOX Next): IBM CPU, ATi GPU
Future Nintendos: IBM CPU(?), ATi GPU
PS3: IBM/Sony CPU, Sony/nvidia GPU
Also keep in mind that this time, Microsoft is trying to get the first-mover advantage, something that the PS2 had and enjoyed quite a bit of success from.
This seems a bit unlikely given the approach Sony took with the PS1 and PS2, but there's a press release to back this up on nVidia's site.
Oh, goody, the PS3 will now double as a space heater. Given my success with NVidia cards, it will also randomly blue-screen after you've been playing the console for an hour or so. Well, probably not blue screen. When my NVidia causes a BSOD it actually manages to corrupt the blue blanking, so I wind up with a random colored screen of death.
I'd imagine something similar would happen with the PS3, random graphical glitches, frozen games. Possibility of wiped memory cards, too. Sounds exciting.
Hint to Sony: There's a reason Nintendo and Microsoft don't use NVidia. You might want to investigate it.
Fuck stock, I want a job there.
given the advaces in integration and the ownership of sony on their ps2 and ps1 design (no aditional cost), I suposse they will have backwards compatibility done in the same way.
quite different from what happens in xbox...
As much as I dislike Sony's hardware, its nice to see that they're finally going to utilize a proper GPU for once.
Also interesting is that it sounds like sony will be manufacturing the chip provided by nVidia. This differs from the MS/nVidia deal in which nVidia was selling physical chips to MS. Looks like Sony will be liscensing IP, as Microsoft is doing with Xbox2. This gives them a better chance to help keep manufacturing costs down.
The sour grapes between MS and nVidia actually stems from the fact that nVidia didn't want to give MS a price-break on their chips. Which, from what I heard, was because Xbox wasn't moving in the volumes the original deal was based on, and they eventually went to arbitration over the matter.
It's an admission that Sony's in-house engineers were unable to come up with a suitable 3D hardware solution, and had to "outsource" the job to the Americans, and it is announced, no less, on the anniversary of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, which compelled the United States to enter World War II.
Just consider this September 1, 2003, article (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?se
That must have a been a hell of a pitch.
What next? Will Sony be selling the Apple iPod?
This completely debunks the myth that is this Slashdot article.
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Look at the date of the article in the link you provided, NEOtaku17. It was September 1, 2003.
Now look at this press release from nvidia
( http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_17342.html):
Was ATI or NVIDIA the 'good' one this week?
I'm has happy as any cross-platform gamer should be that nVidia has a new (and thriving), console bedfellow, but I have to be honest: knowing that the PS3 will have the same type of technology that's in the guts of my OEM high-end gaming rig seems to water down the mystical hype machine. In an age where it's common to hack apart consoles and use them as you see fit, I always feel that knowing what's within is, in a way, violating the experience between the controller and the screen. What keeps me interested in technology is not the fact that I know every detail (including the limits) of what's inside, that's for the office. In the living room I want to give my noodle a break and let the game development magicians take hold of my imagination without comparing it to what's back in the office. I had new confidence in the fact that Sony was developing this all-mystical device with an equally seductive custom innards (Cell), and that there would be a period of a good 5 months after its release where I could revel in the magic of the device before knowing that your common high school tinkerer could download the latest bios hack for it and use it as a pr0n server. I think I'll cover my ears about PS3 until its release. :)
> examine gamecube
On the side, you find a sticker that says: "Powered by ATi"
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