vivster said:
greenmedic88 said:
Clearly, this is a case of PR. But, there is nothing insidious or misleading about it.
Nvidia is going to positively promote the product of their partnership with Nintendo as evidenced by their forward thinking (anything that involves at least a ten year plan). They want a long term partnership that will give them a permanent place in the console and portable space, rather than as an OEM parts supplier playing for bids with each new hardware generation against AMD. They clearly did not want to play that game, which is how SCE and MS ended up with AMD chips powering their consoles.
Naturally, the first thing to come to mind with the Switch was the Nvidia Shield, but that serves as a streamer for Nvidia GPU powered gaming PCs rather than a dedicated, independent gaming device with its own software ecosystem (sorry, Android support doesn't really count). Switch gives them a partnership stake in Nintendo's ecosystem.
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Could you elaborate on that?
What's the difference between Android and a Nintendo OS which will be most likely based on Android.
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I'm willing to bet money that the Switch is not an Android OS based system. Software is Nintendo's domain and I would be very surprised if Android was the route they went.
In fact, I would interpret that directly as Nintendo's signaling of the white flag or exit strategy to leave the hardware/toy business and enter a strictly IP/game development business model. Maybe that model would include peripheral development, but that would demote them to a third party controller/accessory company, which while profitable, would be quite a step down from their existing brand.
So why not? Piracy and maintaining strict control of their hardware/software ecosystem.
