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FunFan said:
JEMC said:

And the 3DS doesn't use custom hardware either.

3DS hardware is semi-custom, which means Nintendo still did some form of customization. I never say Nintendo did full-custom chips, just that Nintendo likes customizing them and that has been either 100% true, or close to, through it's history. Point is that if Nintendo uses any Nvida chip it most probably wont be a simple "Parker".

Also, technically, Nintendo actually only worked with AMD itself in the design of 2 out of 6 consoles and that resulted in Nintendos weakest hardware designs in history.

Can you please give me a link to see the customisations Nintendo did to the 3DS hardware? I'd appreciate that as I've only seen the 3DS using a couple of regular ARM11 chips, plus an ARM9 for DS backwards compatibility, and a PICA200 GPU, nothing customised.

As for Nintendo only going with AMD on 2 consoles, while it's technically true, it's also true that AMD bought the companies that developed the prior chips (as has been said in either this thread or its sibling "Who will provide the NX GPU?"), which is why many of us simply say that they have always worked with AMD.



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