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For what it's worth, I don't doubt you know industry insiders, and I agree we're just talking past each other at this point. It's completely uncontroversial to

For what it's worth, I don't doubt you know industry insiders, and I agree we're just talking past each other at this point. It's completely uncontroversial to state that console manufacturers will shop around, my main point was that there's a certain amount of momentum (both business and technical) that comes into play with the more complex parts of these consoles, which is compounded by the limited number of companies that are able to compete (a high proportion of the consoles of the most recent generations have used IBM and AMD chips). It's not the same as the embedded space where there's tons of competitors. In any case, I respect this conversation is going nowhere fast, so I'll respect you have a different point of view on this, and concede that I was unable to convince you of mine.

vvanders 9y ago
Yeah, it's an easier conversation in person(combined with the fact that there's generally very few secrets inside the industry). It's certainly an interesting space and appreciate the conversation. I know you were probably talking about traditional consoles(xbox/ps/etc) but when you start including portables(with the switch just smashing the 1 year mark at 15M units) then the field opens up significantly. You've got at least 5-6 different GPU vendors and a whole host of companies providing SoCs. Embedded GPUs have been making huge strides and I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the top end of that space start nipping at NVidia/AMD soon. Lots of the people in that domain came from desktop(Adreno is a anagram of Radeon for instance ;)).