Looks like sony is being as cheap as usual. Remember that Nvida chip that was promised for the new ps4. Well here is the story on WHY we wont be seeing it in there.
In an interview with Gamespot, nVidia were pretty upfront on the their involvement with Sony's upcoming 8th generation console the PS4. The company stated that they wanted nothing to do with supplying Sony the means of using their graphics chip on the console. This was due to Sony not forking out the money and paying nVidia what they were asking for. nVidia have gone on to claim that the PlayStation 4 will not be worth the price of admission and warns customers to save their money and wait off for something else.
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Sour grapes. Nvidia is jealous since they have a bad PR reputation and cannot deal well with other companies. They'd have you believe providing the GPU inside the PS4, which is simply an existing architecture released for desktops and laptops already, would have you put "another piece of our business" on hold?

Even with low profit margins for Sony, the manufacturers of the hardware do not necessarily have to put up with the same low margins. Sony itself was initially losing $240 on every PS3 sale due to the estimated hardware cost, but doesn't that mean the hardware manufacturers might be having higher profit margins than Sony such that Sony's loss is $240?

AMD secured the three next gen consoles: Wii U, PS4, XBox 720 / Next / Sphere / 4D / whatever.

Meanwhile, Nvidia are too busy pushing PhysX, Tegra 4, Project Shield, all of which are proprietary technologies that increase fragmentation and lock the consumer in.

They're the larger company, and they're making more profits, but they should take a good, hard look at reality before they start becoming the next Nokia.

EDIT: There WAS *no" Nvidia chip that was promised for the PS4. There never was.

There's also no way Microsoft would go with them this time, not after the XBox fiasco. The XBox 360 had an AMD GPU.
yasamoka wroteSour grapes. Nvidia is jealous since they have a bad PR reputation and cannot deal well with other companies. They'd have you believe providing the GPU inside the PS4, which is simply an existing architecture released for desktops and laptops already, would have you put "another piece of our business" on hold?

Even with low profit margins for Sony, the manufacturers of the hardware do not necessarily have to put up with the same low margins. Sony itself was initially losing $240 on every PS3 sale due to the estimated hardware cost, but doesn't that mean the hardware manufacturers might be having higher profit margins than Sony such that Sony's loss is $240?

AMD secured the three next gen consoles: Wii U, PS4, XBox 720 / Next / Sphere / 4D / whatever.

Meanwhile, Nvidia are too busy pushing PhysX, Tegra 4, Project Shield, all of which are proprietary technologies that increase fragmentation and lock the consumer in.

They're the larger company, and they're making more profits, but they should take a good, hard look at reality before they start becoming the next Nokia.

EDIT: There WAS *no" Nvidia chip that was promised for the PS4. There never was.

There's also no way Microsoft would go with them this time, not after the XBox fiasco. The XBox 360 had an AMD GPU.
You can say that i posted the same comment on the original article on GS. Nvidia did a smart PR move here trying to steal the hype that started since 20th of February. In the everyone starts bitching about details that dont really matter, the PS2 was technically the weakest console of its generation and it was solid as a rock in sales and variety in game genres that flourished on it.

The technical specs of a console are just revealed to justify a price and feed the tech savvy news to chew upon (also the press), people like yasamoka and me.

@yasamoka: The Blu-ray player of the PS3 was costing Sony alone about $100, i remember reading an article breaking down the hardware costs. You have to keep in mind that a any console isnt developed in a year, the PS3 CPU alone was a project started by IBM, Sony and Toshiba back in early 2000s. I know yasamoka that you know all this but i want other members to read this.
Yup, those are long term investments. Securing all next-gen consoles would mean that no matter which fails and which succeeds, you're making profits either way.

Sort of like Samsung providing Apple with hardware. They make their own phones from their own hardware as well, and compete with Apple. If Apple sells, they profit, and if they sell more, they profit as well. Win-win.
But i think you know that Nvidia and AMD is a fabless company. While Sony, Samsung manufacture semiconductors. Yet Samsung (and many others if not all) uses the designs of Qualcomm (fabless) such as Snapdragon, which usually is a System On Chip (SoC) with a GPU and CPU (ARM), much like AMD's APU.
kareem_nasser wroteBut i think you know that Nvidia and AMD is a fabless company. While Sony, Samsung manufacture semiconductors. Yet Samsung (and many others if not all) uses the designs of Qualcomm (fabless) such as Snapdragon, which usually is a System On Chip (SoC) with a GPU and CPU (ARM), much like AMD's APU.
Yes, they rely on TSMC.
By the way, AMD is divesting (selling) the last percent of its share in GlobalFounderies.