Nvidia Walked Away From PS4 Hardware Negotiations 255
An anonymous reader writes "Tony Tamsai, Nvidia's senior vice president of content and technology, has said that providing hardware for use in the PlayStation 4 was on the table, but they walked away. Having provided chips for use in both the PS3 and the original Xbox, that decision doesn't come without experience. Nvidia didn't want to commit to producing hardware at the cost Sony was willing to pay. They also considered that by accepting a PS4 contract, they wouldn't have the resources to do something else in another sector. In other words, the PS4 is not a lucrative enough platform to consider when high-end graphics cards and the Tegra line of chips hold so much more revenue potential."
Wonder what they told MS (Score:4, Funny)
You can bet MS has approached them on providing chips for Durango too. I wonder if they told *them* to piss off.
Allegedly (Score:5, Funny)
They, Allegedly, walked away.
Without video proof, we can't be sure they didn't strolled, strutted or even rambled away.
Re:Good Move. (Score:5, Funny)
I recently read a comment in slashdot that had a bizarre structure. The author gave his opinion by telling a story about how he gave that same opinion to a friend of his.
Re:Good Move. (Score:5, Funny)
This one time, at band camp, I stuffed a Slashdot comment up my flute.
Re:Allegedly (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps they moseyed [penny-arcade.com].
Re:Console margins can't be good (Score:5, Funny)
Having all games (and thus their ports) on million and millions of xbox and PS consoles designed and optimized for your specific hardware for the next 10 years is worth money. Any profit they actually get is just icing.
Quick, better call Nvidia and tell them this before they make a terrible, terrible mistake! Just say you're calling from Slashdot - they'll put you straight through to the CEO.
Re:Allegedly (Score:5, Funny)
Observers from the Ministry of Silly Walks have confirmed (to their disappointment) that their walk was one of the most serious ever recorded, and that they did not amble, dawdle, gambol, hustle, limp, meander, mosey, march, ramble, sashay, saunter, scamper, scurry, sidle, skulk, slink, slog, skip, stroll, stomp, strut, swagger, tiptoe, traipse. They did not even do a forward aerial half turn every alternate step with the left leg, which itself is hardly a silly walk at all.
Re:Console margins can't be good (Score:5, Funny)
... the Wii run[s] AMD (well ATI) GPUs
Being rather generous, aren't we?
If anything, I'd say the Wii 'casually strolls' the GPU. 'Run' is taking it a bit far.
Re:dem Economics (Score:5, Funny)
My thought is that tablets will allow us to extend games and make them portable. For example, I would have loved to have been able to play Skyrim on the PS3 and the Tablet: The PS3 at home and the Tablet when on the road. Saved games would be synched to the cloud, similar to what Steam does today, and downloaded to the tablet so that you could pick up where you left the game. The capabilities of tablets would have to improve quite a bit before this happens, but it is coming...
I was thinking the same things as I was playing sim city the other day....man it would be nice if this game was synched to the cloud...