zarx on 17 May 2010
| .jayderyu said: hmmm, looks like an interesting board. I wonder how they are going to fit it into the size of a DS :P There will be no Tegra in the 3DS. I don't know why this thought persists. The Tegra is a contradiction to Nintendo's design philosophy. A Tegra chip would increase the cost a lot more. A Tegra chip would remove BC. The DS will only be apx a DSi with 2 DSi GPU + GPUMemory and maybe some extra touches. |
clearly a early dev board for demo purposes.
Now as for your Tegra bashing the latest rumor was that Nintendo were licensing some Tegra tech not buying an "off the shelf" chip. It wouldn't increase the cost per console that much really. It would not remove backwards compatibility as even off the shelf Tegras can have built in ARM cores and as the DS is powered by 2 ARM chips a single Tegra could have two newer ARM chips and the GPU component that allows Xbox 1 level effects. or they could have a multi core ARM chip and 2 chips with the graphics packages spun out into separate chips like what was shown in that patent not long ago, still maintaining BC.
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