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Nvidia CEO Talks Next-Gen Consoles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the probably-knows-what-he's-talking-about dept.

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."

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  1. Re:"Advanced" for the sake of it... by Ewan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Umm, Nvidia did the graphics chip for the Playstation 3, not ATI, I'm not sure what you're on about?

    If you'd read the full article, or even the linked to snippet, you'd know this.

  2. Re:"Advanced" for the sake of it... by illumina+us · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The PS3 GPU is made by NVidia

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  3. Re:"Advanced" for the sake of it... by Khakionion · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Actually, the PS3's RSX GPU is an NVidia production. Hence his tendency to think the PS3 is better.

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  4. Re:"Advanced" for the sake of it... by Quarters · · Score: 0, Redundant
    BTW. There does seem to be a slight hint of bitterness in his comments, which is understandable given that EVERY one of the next-gen consoles are powered by their rival's GPUs. (ATI)

    Wrong.

    It seems odd for Nvidia to claim that developing a GPU for the 360 was too expensive when ATI managed to do not only that, but the PS3 and Wii GPUs as well.

    Still wrong.

    Nvidia dropped the ball big time by not developing a new GPU for at least one of the nextgen consoles...

    The PS3 GPU is an nVidia part. It's essentially a 7900 with a different memory interconnect.