Microsoft + Nintendo collaboration on hardware/network is a possibility.

[alephnull]

Squilliam said:

alephnull said:

The oh-so-subtle subtext here is MS fans should cooperate with Nintendo fans against annoying Sony fans, or at least that's the only explanation I can come up with for this that makes sense; I would be hard pressed to come up with two other companies with less compatible corporate cultures and unaligned interests.

So Nintendo should want to be acquired by MS so they can integrate MS's realtime bleeping tech? Seriously? You're a better Sophist than that Squilliam. I would suggest advocating the merging of Nintendo with a codeword substitute for MS in the form of some notoriously pro-microsoft proxy, such as valve. It would have the advantage of being less obvious, and might even make sense as long as you didn't think about it for too long.

In this context I would expect little more cooperation between companies of such diverse internal cultures and values than Sony cooperates with Microsoft in relation to VAIO laptop computers. I felt that perhaps Nintendo could make use of the services offered by another company in order to focus on the areas which are most vital to their own success. Why reinvent the wheel when they they focus their attention on areas critical to user experience. They are a relatively small company so if they can focus their hardware engineers in areas where their efforts count and buy in hardware/services than cannot efficiently produce in house they may very well be better off overall. You could replace Microsoft with AMD in this if it makes you feel better.

In the context of the real time bleeping technology, I believed that Nintendo would not offer voice communication in game unless they had a way of shielding their userbase from vulgar and obscene language. If you look back upon their comments they have implied this much themselves. Since Microsoft is the only one who I know has it, it increases the possibility for a mutually beneficial partnership.

Why would you assume I make this thread out of some anti-Sony spite? I hold no disrespect for any of the community here specifically because of their console of choice, I myself haven't played on my Xbox 360 for a few months as its broken and even then I play more games on the PS3 or PC and have done since the beginning of the generation. My opinion of Sony PR is something else entirely and if you're referencing my previous thread about whether or not the Move was inspired or cloned from the Wiimote I had no ill intentions, I simply wanted to get the pulse of the community on this issue.

P.S. I have a theory that you're now working for Nvidia given the fact that your experience with HPC and the Cell processor makes you qualified to help them with their own endeavours in that space and its supported by the fact that Nvidia forbids their employees from using messaging boards so you'd have to keep your new location of work secret. It wouldn't be Intel because Intel allows people to make accounts as long as you make it certain your opinion is your own (according to Aaron Spink, lead engineer for Itanium networking) and ATI/AMD weren't hiring that much due to their poor financial position and less need for your relevant expertise.

 

1) Microsoft and Sony (usually held up as one of the most "American" of Japanese companies) have fairly similar corporate cultures, so that doesn't help your argument.

2) realtime bleeping is something you liscence from some niche media tech company or hire a speed team to reverse engineer.

3) The Sony fans have obviously become the most annoiying at the moment, so it only makes sense. Don't get me wrong I prefer the PS3, but the fans are starting to drive me crazy with the crap they are giving people who run linux on their machines.

4) Hah, no, still on the intel grant. Besides, GPUs/GPGPUs will be replaced by something that can do realtime raytracing next gen

http://www.drdobbs.com/high-performance-computing/218500694

and NVIDIA will go under ;)