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Game consoles are about building a functioning content platform. The hardware is only a small part of it. You can see that with Nvidia's half-hearted attempts
by nrp 6y ago
Game consoles are about building a functioning content platform. The hardware is only a small part of it. You can see that with Nvidia's half-hearted attempts with Shield.
- dragontamer 6y agoNVidia Shield did the job. It got NVidia a contract with Nintendo, who turned the Shield into a Switch. Yeah, Nintendo jazzed it up a lot, but the internals of the Switch and Shield are surprisingly close.
- nrp 6y agoSure, that is fair. In that sense, Samsung could plausibly build a console and software tools around it as a reference design to encourage a gaming platform company to adopt Exynos.
- tw04 6y agoI dunno, as far as streaming games goes, nVidia is probably one of the better if not the best on the market. Their problem is that literally nobody knows about what it's capable of. Being able to buy a game on steam, and then play it on your TV is AMAZING. Of course, game publishers are playing hardball because everyone knows you should have to buy a copy of the game for every place you want to play it.