Nintendo will have an advantage over 720/PS4!

[Squilliam]

Soleron said:

Squilliam said:

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Just one thing to keep in mind (ATI) or AMD now has been exceptional at keeping secrets and deliberately spreading misinformation. Consider the speculation on their latest card Cayman, that is a nightmare of fake information spread from official levels.

It's more like they have no choices except AMD. There are only two vendors with capable enough graphics, and Nintendo has used AMD (ATI/ArtX) since the N64, Microsoft can't use Nvidia due to the Xbox 1 issue and Sony can't use them due to the PS3 issue.

I would be skeptical about specs turning up for those consoles, but not who's going to make the card.

Off topic - Yeah Cayman/Barts have been amazingly well obfuscated. No one has any idea of its performance, pricing or shader count.

If you want to really get technical there are at least 4 major vendors which would be capable of doing the graphics and which hold numerous substantial I.P. whilst also containing the development talent to produce something that complicated.

1. AMD first choice
2. nVidia
3. IMGtech (handheld, biggest handheld GPU maker), another option for a Wii replacement. They make the PowerVR series IIRC.
4. Intel

BTW I wouldn't be too hasty to write nVidia off with Sony. From what the rumours say, the PSP2 has a Tegra 2 chipset in it. Maybe Sony is pissed at how delayed it is or something, Charlie wrote an article on that.