Quote Originally Posted by DilTech View Post
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.
That, right there, is terribly false. If NVIDIA isn't in any of the next-gen consoles is because it couldn't present a competitive product, not because they didn't want to. Sure they will tell everybody that they didn't want to... but its far from the truth.

Would you not want to be into a product line that will sell into the hundred million units? EVERYBODY would want to... but the fact is that NVIDIA couldn't simply because they lack the x86 license required to qualify. For AMD this is a huge success, a HUGE one.