Quote Originally Posted by Metroid View Post
It must be because they are not supplying any of its chips to next generation video game consoles, mainly, Nintendo, Sony and or Microsoft. As John Carmack already talked about, AMD has the chance to get close to Intel on the CPU and get far ahead from Nvidia on the GPU due to optimizations.
NVidia backed out willingly on the console dealings on their own two feet. Not sure why they would be worried about that.

Remember the HD 2900xt? I know ATi/AMD does, similar shader design to the xbox360 (main difference is that the HD2900xt could do geometry shading as well). It still lost to the 8800GTX in xbox360 ports, even when they were designed around the AMD shader tech.

I wouldn't put too much thought into the console situation. Even if the game was written from top to bottom around what AMD has in the consoles, you have to realize that those gpus are essentially a stripped down 7850. You could optimize for that to perfection, and it'll STILL run like a banshee on a 780 just off the extra horse-power alone.

True story.