patjuan32 on 29 November 2009
AMD purchased ATI, which develops and manufactures the GPUs in the Gamecube, Xbox 360, and the Wii. Also they are trying to enter their CPUs in the console market. I have not heard that any one has taken them up on the offer. IBM has a hold on the market now and developed/manufactured the CPUs for the Gamecube, Xbox 360, The PS3, and The Wii.
If Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft decided to use AMD chips in their next gen consoles then the end result would be the loss of backwards compatibility. AMD makes X86 chips while IBM makes the PowerPC and the Cell chips.
If Nintendo is successful at the moment, it’s because they are good, and I cannot blame them for that. What we should do is try to be just as good.----Laurent Benadiba
