| disolitude said: Yep, fuly agree with you. And the joke was great... :) I am fairly certain that the "golden days" for consoleg aming for Nvidia isn't related to game console selling well, but them and other hardware manufacturers being able to make money on them. As a sidenote, Tegra 3 and 4 did ok but not as ood as Tegra 2 for sure. At least both were in nexus and Surface RT models which counts for media attention at least. K1 however looks to be very capable and should give them a GPU performance edge over the competition. The success to K1 will be a fully fledged Maxwell GPU which is when things will just get rediculous for Nvidia. |
The bolded is exactly the point. Looking at the Nvidia report, the most interesting part is that now only 25% of their revenue is liked to OEM contracts. They are actually working to be less OEM dependant and having to deal with tiny profit margins. Not that they won't be there, but they want to be sure that their standalone GPU business with good margins is healthier than ever.
And I forgot the Surface, they really managed to put it in there. The biggest issue with Tegra 3 and 4 is that they underdelivered. They never were the gaming machines promisses and a lot of the Tegra optimized titles had problems with framerates. The big problem is that the Snapdragons and the Apple AX were outperforming them at games, so the big point of the Tegra wasn't valid anymore.
But I really doubt that this time the K1 will have any problem to outperform handly the competition. I've said more than once on this forum: the problem with Tegra is that NVidia never used their full potential in their SoCs and they were letting competitors with zero GPU experience beat them at their own game. Now they are finaly bringing their top game to play.
