Who will provide the NX GPU?

[Soundwave]

fatslob-:O said:

Soundwave said:

Why do people even think Nvidia is some bad way to go? They have probably the best graphics engineers in the business (helps not being broke like AMD is, so you can pay your staff). 

Nvidia is a good partner for Nintendo, their experience with the Tegra line will be invaluable and their Pascal tech is fantastic and ready to roll. Also Nintendo's technology head was former director of engineering at Nvidia. 

Why people think Nvidia is a bad way to go is because of their bad history with consoles ...

Nvidia probably does have the best graphics engineers and scientists but they have yet to prove themselves that their truly superior when it comes to low powered chips like the ones that Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, or Arm produces ... 

Just because the lead engineer at Nintendo Technology Development once worked at Nvidia 8 years ago doesn't mean that he's in their pockets ... 

I had plenty of fun with my XBox and PS3, if there were design flaws with those machines it was Sony and MS' fault, Nvidia just gave them what they were contracted to give. 

I'm pretty sure Nintendo did vet Samsung, Qualcomm, and ARM (though Nvidia's Tegra SOC already uses ARM) ... Nvidia looks like they gave Nintendo the best overall package. It's quite possible for GAMING purposes Nvidia provided the best performance as Nvidia also has know how in dedicated graphics GPUs strictly for gaming, whereas Qualcomm doesn't really. 

And sure Nintendo's technology head having a pre-existing relationship with Nvidia probably didn't hurt negotiations, he likely knows a lot of people over there and if he vouched for Nvidia, it could have pushed their bid to the top of the pile.