Nintendo worked with nVidia on 3DS but nVidia couldn't get Tegra 2 done in time. They have a long standing relationship.
Nintendo absolutely wants to continue with a post-PlayStation situation since they remained the most profitable console manufacturer and grew in influence.
fair enough. I am sure NERD can code a pretty good Switch emulator or translation layer.
They stopped reporting it either because it isn't a big part of their overall business anymore or because the numbers continued to trend downwards and weren't favourable anymore.
I bet Nvidia consider making business with Nintendo to be so insufferable...
EDIT: Before anyone ask the reason why the graph stops at January 2020 is that since then Nvidia stopped reporting the data for the Tegra segment.
Note that since April 2020 Nintendo has sold 85.55 million units of Switch consoles, that is 60.5% of the total Switch sales until March 2024 (141.32M).
That will crash soon enough. They are in a bubble.
Imagine you’re a salesman, you have a meeting set up with an important client who you hear wants to buy 100 million units. You get a presentation all ready to go, all about your state-of-the-art new product and all the benefits it can bring to your client.
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Neither, that's because they remodeled their reportable segments from "GPU" and "Tegra Processor" to "Graphics" and "Compute & Networking".
Spoiler: we absolutely are not getting the latest chip
I’m calling bs on this. Pascal was barely out. They would’ve had to do extensive testing only months before mass production. The switch chip wasn’t even 3 gen behind.He answered the frustration question over on B3D.
"Source is within NVDA like all the stuff I share for over a decade
Frustration is Nintendo choosing a tech multiple gen behind the latest and greatest. It slows down new NV tech adoption, thus advantage. I have a story to share about the first switch deal for which Jensen travelled to Japan. He offered a custom SoC updated with Pascal for less than $1 extra aver the TegraX but Nintendo didn't care. And now for Switch2, it's the same story. Could be Lovelace but nah, Nintendo doesn't care again. Even worst, Switch will be launched more than 2 years after the SoC design completion"
NVIDIA discussion [2024]
There's an element with automotive where it made obvious sense. MediaTek are already have infotainment relationships and Nvidia's autonomy links into that. I can't see the same angle with chips for Windows laptops. Nvidia have relationships with those companies already. Nvidia are one of the...
??? They already returned with the Switch.
Without? Did you miss Switch emulation on Deck and its brothers? What makes you think Switch 2 will not be emulated too?
so you want to launch an overpriced system that relies on the emulation to get games? And hopefully the devs will get the emulator to an acceptable state in a couple of years after the system launched?
Overpriced how? And how will it relies only on emulation to get games?
Because it's an Nvidia system, so you can bet your ass that it's going to be fucking expensive. And the emulation part was brought up by you. I dunno what you want from me.
We don't know the price yet and expensive is not necessarily overpriced if it is the best of the best in the market. I brought emulation as a plus to the handheld and I don't know where you got the idea that it will only emulate games and not have its own native games.
You said taht you don't want "4 year old trash" from Nintendo. The only reason why one would say stuff like that is if that individual is at least interested in Nintendo's games. Otherwise that statement doesn't make sense. So I pointed out that you won't get Nintendo's new stuff with it and it will be very pricey since you want Nvidia to include their new stuff.
I didn't say that. Was another colleague.
Fair enough.
You are oversimplifying it. Of course in the end both are ripping off their costumers. But Nintendo usually targeted their customers with a cheaper and almost outdated hardware. Nvidia on the other hand had to bring constantly to their customers the most innovative and advanced GPUs. But lately Nvidia's hardware has become the hottest thing around the world and because of that they started charging Apple level of premium prices for them.
They can be unhappy with the outcome, but I’d say they obviously care. Otherwise they’d have pulled out.Just because they are doing it, it doesn't mean they are happy with it. It's business, transactions like this happen all the time where there is animosity between both parties.
They are in the big leagues now:
How do they have Nintendo by the balls?
It will still be 4-year-old trash.
It has to be $$$. It's always about $$$.
It's well over a billion. Switch is doing PS2 numbers all over the place.
Nvidia probably wanted to get Nintendo to use higher end chip sets for two fold reason, 1. To better promote their mobile tech capabilities and 2. To get higher profit margins from their cut of hardware/chip sales.
They don't. Nintendo can tell NERD to write a decent emulator, if required.
