Xbox 360 Equals more cash for NVIDIA
by Jason Ward | June 14, 2005 in Consoles, Industry News | Comments Off
Looks like NVIDIA will benefit from Xbox 360 in the upcoming console “wars”. How, you ask? Well in order to achieve backward compatibility, emulation of the original Xbox’s GPU will be needed. Here’s the catch: emulation of the NVIDIA hardware will entitle NVIDIA to royalty payments for every unit of Xbox360 sold,
perhaps another bad move for Microsoft’s next generation game console. This makes me wonder what other surprises are in store for (from?) Microsoft as they get close to their release date.
Thanks to Ferrago.com for the heads-up.
Nevertheless, we’re interested: what do you think? So far I have to say it looks very impressive. The appearance of the console is, much more attractive than the Xbox 360, though I suspect that some of their performance estimates are a bit dubious given the specs of the machine itself (which is typical of Sony: they overstated performance on both previous Playstations purely in order to market against their competition, truth be damned), but on the whole it does look decent.
