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Next Nintendo Handheld To Be Powered By NVIDIA's Tegra Chipset
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."
I'll wait for the screener.
I record my sleeptalking
...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.
Nvidia's getting out of the chipset market so fast they're actually releasing new products already.
That's the *real* question. 1080p makes a bigger difference when hooked up to a big-screen TV than it will in a tiny hand-held.
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And, you know, batteries.
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Right, because nobody over the age of 12 owns a DS...
Wait, no. That's not right. I have one, and so does my: Mother, father, sister, both nephews... That's just off the top of my head, and only people actually related to me by blood. My youngest niece owns one, too, but she's actually under 12, so...
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
I doubt that the homebrew community will spend the effort to reverse-engineer the next Nintendo hand-held when they could buy a cheap, open cell phone for the same price.
I think you're REALLY underestimating the homebrew communities. They'll hack it just because they can.
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.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
have more graphics power than the current Wii?
75% of what a normal cookie does, at 2x the price!
BAZINGA!
I keed of course... I even posted this from my MacBook.
"...and give Nintendo's developers the power to bring higher quality games to the platform."
Any developer that thinks the thing stopping them from delivering higher quality games is more powerful graphics hardware has no hope of delivering high quality games.
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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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The Wiii?