| TheLastStarFighter said: It's extremely likely that NX is using AMD tech. Suggesting otherwise is wasting brain power. |
It's possible but I'm not sure if it's a lock I think we all just assumed. Early on I was skeptical because if you're going to have unified platform, you probably need to some kind of uniformity to your chipsets, ie: it's more likely that Nintendo would use tablet components for both their console and portable, because it's very hard/impossible to shrink non-tablet GPUs/CPUs down into a portable.
So Nvidia would be a reasonable choice, they've been making the Tegra line for a while, whereas AMD hasn't done much work for tablets/phones at all.
Also apparently Nvidia was working with Nintendo on the 3DS until something late in the game went side ways.
The head of Nintendo's Technology Development division and hardware architecture also used to work at Nvidia.
I'm not sure who to believe at this point though.
There's also murmurs that Nvidia has been frustrated in not being able to find customers for their Tegra line of chips, perhaps they caved and offered Nintendo a deal too sweet to pass up in order to justify the investment they've put into the product line. There's like 10 people that bought that Shield console.
