Nvidia CEO Talks Next-Gen Consoles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 25, 2006 @04:41AM 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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Re:3dfx already did it... by Slashcrap · 2006-07-25 12:17 · Score: 0, Troll

"Nvidia 1.0 was building 3-D graphics. Creating the consumer 3-D market."
No, that was 3dfx again.

Oh really? I don't remember being able to buy a 3DFX card in 1995.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NV1