NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is at it again. After having very positive things to say about Switch during the company’s latest financial call earlier in the week, he’s now spoken about it very positively with GamesBeat, noting that “it was such a ground-breaking design.”

When asked why NVIDIA went after Switch, Huang said:

“We’re dedicated to the gaming market and always have been. Some parts of the market, we just weren’t prepared to serve them. I was fairly open about how, when this current generation of consoles was being considered, we didn’t have x86 CPUs. We weren’t in contention for any of those. However, the other factor is whether we could really make a contribution or not. If a particular game console doesn’t require our special skills, what we can uniquely bring, then it’s a commodity business that may not be suited for us.

In the case of Switch, it was such a ground-breaking design. Performance matters, because games are built on great performance, but form factor and energy efficiency matter incredibly, because they want to build something that’s portable and transformable. The type of gameplay they want to enable is like nothing the world has so far. It’s a scenario where two great engineering teams, working with their creative teams, needed to hunker down. Several hundred engineering years went into building this new console. It’s the type of project that really inspires us, gets us excited. It’s a classic win-win.”

Huang mentioned a few days ago that people will be “amazed” by Switch. He also believes that NVIDIA’s relationship with Nintendo could last as long as two decades.

http://nintendoeverything.com/nvidia-ceo-talks-up-switch-again-says-it-was-such-a-ground-breaking-design/

wow Nvidia's PR is even more bullshit and out of this world than Microsoft's

Who knows?Switch can be anything(performance wise) at this point(I mean of course below PS4, but o0ther than that anything is game), and I dont remember them doing this kind of PR(might be wrong there), se will need to wait and see.

GUYS! GUYS!

two more months

;_;

The Switch is going to be amazing!

they said "Performance matters, because games are built on great performance" but a few years ago they were trashing the ps4/xb1 that are too weak and are holding back PC, yet performance matters on their handheld that is wekear than a 2013 console? what happened with holding back PC?

they also said "The type of gameplay they want to enable is like nothing the world has so far." like what type of gameplay? Wii U ports and Skyrim? a game from how many years ago? lmao

i need what they were smoking

I agree with the first point(and even then NVidia is known for high tech and great performance, and all we know in this subject about Switch is pure rumors), but you are completely wrong by the second.Since when the Switch are getting only ports?Nintendo and other companies barely announced games yet for the system, probably because of Nintendo NDA, and that they want to announce them from January foward.And gameplay possibilities dosent end at number of games.Here he means the portability, the "Switch" factor.You need to read betwenn the lines.Dont acvuse someone of smoking something when it seems that you are too using the same stuff.

So you think Switch will have only Wii U ports and Skyrim!? Reality is we dont know almost anything about Switch games and gameplay they will offer (and of course there will plant of new games), while Nvidia is definitely way more informed about that then we are.

Also he refers of great performance compared to portability of whole Switch concept, not compare to PC or only home consoles.

I believe this 100% but I wish Nvidia would stop talking about it as something which no one has ever seen before, considering that the PSPGo and even the Nvidia shield are both very similar in what they can do, not to mention that Chinese handheld/console which is pretty much a Switch without the branding.

Like... it will be good, gamers will love it... just stop saying it's revolutionary please, that isn't what people are going to love about it.

Everytime someone tries to point out a WiiU port of Skyrim, they lose all credibility in the conversation as it becomes obvious that they are reaching it is pathetic.

Two words that nullifies that garbage comment. SPECIAL EDITION.

Have a nice day.