Gaming Forums => General Gaming => Topic started by: joeamis on December 15, 2003, 01:49:34 PM
Title: whats the MS/Nintendo rumor, dont post new rumors
Post by: joeamis on December 15, 2003, 01:49:34 PM
what's the deal with the MS/Nintendo collaboration rumor? does ATI working for both next consoles have any bearing to it?
please don't post any rumors, just explain the former.
Title: RE:whats the MS/Nintendo rumor, dont post new rumors
Post by: BigJim on December 16, 2003, 03:47:08 AM
There's nothing to explain, it's just bull.
Title: RE: whats the MS/Nintendo rumor, dont post new rumors
Post by: vudu on December 16, 2003, 06:52:27 AM
i think it went something like microsoft and nintendo were going to team up to blow sony out of the water in the next round of the console wars. microsoft makes the best/most powerful/heaviest console and nintendo owns the licenses to some of the biggest franchises so combining their forces would be the only way they could compete against sony. when it was announced that ati was going to be powering both company's next consoles, it only fueled the rumor.
before i get bushwacked, i didn't say i think the xbox is the most powerful console, i just said that's what others were saying.
Title: RE: whats the MS/Nintendo rumor, dont post new rumors
Post by: KDR_11k on December 16, 2003, 07:19:42 AM
Nintendo and Microsoft both have IBM and ATI as partners, but that doesn't mean anything. Chip manufacturers often service many competing customers.
Title: RE: whats the MS/Nintendo rumor, dont post new rumors
Post by: manunited4eva22 on December 18, 2003, 01:14:23 PM
Who cares, nvidia has been helping sony with the graphics processor for CELL, and IBM is just huge, who cares.
Title: RE:whats the MS/Nintendo rumor, dont post new rumors
Post by: BigJim on December 22, 2003, 09:25:03 PM
Quote Originally posted by: manunited4eva22 Who cares, nvidia has been helping sony with the graphics processor for CELL, and IBM is just huge, who cares.
nVidia? News to me. It's been all IBM and Hitachi that i've been hearing all this time.
Title: RE: whats the MS/Nintendo rumor, dont post new rumors
Post by: manunited4eva22 on December 23, 2003, 06:38:16 AM
Here is a link, it's CNN, but for once they did report something similar to the truth
Title: RE:whats the MS/Nintendo rumor, dont post new rumors
Post by: Munky on December 23, 2003, 09:16:06 AM
Should be interesting to see how "similar" N5 and Xbox Next will be, especially if they both have ATI and IBM. But, I guess whoever pays the most money (between Microsoft and Nintendo), will more than likely get the better hardware.
Title: RE:whats the MS/Nintendo rumor, dont post new rumors
Post by: BigJim on December 23, 2003, 11:06:09 AM
An article from September saying nvidia is "in discussions" isn't really compelling proof. It could happen or not. In a separate article, Sony has said they were more interested in working in-house.
Title: RE:whats the MS/Nintendo rumor, dont post new rumors
Post by: Munky on December 23, 2003, 11:09:12 AM
Yeah, that's what I've read as well. I think Sony will stay in-house so they don't have to pay another company to do work that they're fully capable of doing themselves.
Title: RE: whats the MS/Nintendo rumor, dont post new rumors
Post by: manunited4eva22 on December 23, 2003, 12:26:46 PM
...which is why they put up 1 billion dollars+ to have IBM help them out. Whether they have or haven't exactly I can't say, nor can you, but then again sony is really great with pixel shading and a workable API, just look at PS2....oh wait...
