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Next Nintendo Handheld To Be Powered By NVIDIA's Tegra Chipset

Posted by Soulskill on from the tegra-his-arms-wide dept.

Vigile writes "When you sell over 100 million handheld gaming systems, everyone wants to be involved in your success; just ask Nintendo. As a company with many different obstacles in its path, NVIDIA could definitely use the boost in revenues that would come from partnering with a company like Nintendo on a handheld system, and it looks like the Tegra processor will make that happen. The NVIDIA Tegra processor is an SoC that runs a set of ARM cores, a GeForce-based graphics core and an HD video processor capable of 1080p output that would definitely give the current Nintendo DS/DSi systems a performance boost in line with the Sony PSP. The 'Nintendo TS,' as it has been dubbed, will apparently be ready for a late winter 2010 release and should put a spark in the mobile gaming market and give Nintendo's developers the power to bring higher quality games to the platform."

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  1. TS? by sleeponthemic · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll wait for the screener.

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    I record my sleeptalking
  2. That was fast by FlyingBishop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nvidia's getting out of the chipset market so fast they're actually releasing new products already.

  3. Re:Flashcards by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who cares, I'm waiting to pirate the games. Fuck you nintendo.

    me@slashdot > --gamemode
    SLASHGAME: YOU ARE STANDING IN A FIELD
    SLASHGAME: LOOK NORTH
    SLASHGAME: YOU SEE AN ANONYMOUS COWARD
    SLASHGAME: WALK NORTH
    SLASHGAME: THE ANONYMOUS COWARD GREETS YOU BY SAYING "FUCK YOU NINTENDO"
    SLASHGAME: INVENTORY
    SLASHGAME: YOU HAVE 2 COOKIES
    SLASHGAME: QUERY COOKIES
    SLASHGAME: COOKIE #1 IS COOKIE WITH POWER OF SU
    SLASHGAME: COOKIE #2 IS COOKIE OF APPLE POWER
    SLASHGAME: DROP COOKIE WITH POWER OF SU
    SLASHGAME: YOU DROP THE COOKIE WITH POWER OF SU
    SLASHGAME: ANONYMOUS COWARD PICKS UP COOKIE WITH POWER OF SU
    SLASHGAME: IN SOVIET UNION, COOKIE EATS ANONYMOUS COWARD
    SLASHGAME: EXIT
    me@slashdot >

  4. To Be Powered By NVIDIA's Tegra Chipset by Eideteker · · Score: 5, Funny

    And, you know, batteries.

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    sic
  5. Blades, motor by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would be great if it came with a motor and hooked up to a set of blades, it would be really useful as a stick blender and possibly a desk fan. Just make sure you have the plastic blades hooked up for that mode.

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  6. So the next DS will by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    have more graphics power than the current Wii?

  7. Re:Flashcards by mrdoogee · · Score: 4, Funny

    75% of what a normal cookie does, at 2x the price!

    BAZINGA!

    I keed of course... I even posted this from my MacBook.

  8. Re:Never by Carewolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Wii will never have 1080p; Nintendo will make you buy the next console for that.

    The Wiii?