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Nvidia CEO Talks Next-Gen Consoles
kukyfrope writes "Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia recently shared his thoughts with the San Jose Mercury News about next-gen consoles, claiming that developing a chip for the 360 was too expensive and that the inclusion of a Blu-ray player will help the console last for 10 years. Huang also predicts that the 360 cannot afford to be a DVD-only system by Christmas 2007, likening the 360-DVD vs PS3-Blu-ray battle to the Dreamcast-CD vs PS2-DVD battle. 'The first PlayStation had a CD-ROM drive. The PlayStation 2 had DVD. It makes no sense for the PlayStation 3 to use DVDs. To postpone it by a few months so they could include Blu-ray was a master stroke. When that comes out, it's going to look so much more advanced than last-generation game consoles,' Huang said."
Why isn't this linked to San Jose Mercury news? Not in the club with Slashdot and gamebizdaily?
The XB360 has been out for almost a year soon, and the PS3 and Wii will be released in the near future. Isn't it about time to start calling them current-gen? Or will we wait until the XB^3/PS4/WWii is out until we start calling the previous incarnations current-gen?
ahh but also gives her the ability to hit something more effectivly if she wanted to
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
I've got an early PS2 and it has trouble with DVDs from Disney.
I've never had a problem with a non-Disney DVD.
Of course, now we have a real DVD player so the issue is moot.
*sigh* back to work...