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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. Re:But will it run Linux? by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...And will we be able to play SuperTux?

    Not on the TS. Nintendo doesn't associate with amateurs or semiprofessionals. Seriously. If you want to run Linux on a gaming PDA, get a Pandora once it comes out.

  2. The street doesn't believe it by afidel · · Score: 3, Informative

    On a day where most of the microchip stocks are up on good Intel earnings NVDA is down.

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  3. Re:That was fast by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, what? Tegra was announced over a year ago and has been shipping for a while in the Zune.

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  4. Re:photo by surferx0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Gawd that's ugly. Why not integrate the buttons into the main body. It seriously looks like a maxi pad. I hope this is just the rumor mill at work.

    While probably not a reliable concept picture of the new device, the reason for the buttons being separated from the screen body is because this is supposed to show us slide/twist design where the screen can be turned to portrait mode for DS games and then turned to landscape mode and slid upwards like a typical cell phone design for TS games.

    Although for that design to work the buttons would have to be nearly flush to the device to not interfere with the sliding screen. While that's fine for the ABXY buttons, a flush D-pad would be kind of ridiculous. Again, probably not real.

  5. Rumors, damn it. RUMORS! by Tarlus · · Score: 5, Informative

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

    The Actual Article:
    "NVIDIA Tegra rumored to be included in new Nintendo handheld"

    RTFA and be a little less misleading, Slashdot.

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