Although when it comes right down to it, whatever company wins the contract to provide the graphics silicon for Sony’s Playstation 3 isn’t that important to we end-users of the product, well, it’s Nvidia. Rumors suggested that Nvidia hadn’t finished its work on the original Xbox on good terms with Microsoft, which made the selection of ATI for the Xbox 2’s video chipset unsurprising. However, it’s arguably a much bigger deal for Nvidia to get a contract on the Playstation 3, if relative sales figures for the next generation consoles end up as disparate as they were in this generation, where the Playstation pretty much trounced everybody for the second time in a row.
Nvidia’s been working on the chip for two years in secret. While it’s certain that some nifty graphical tricks learned in the development of the new hardware will find their way to future Nvidia PC gaming products, don’t take this news to signify in any way that Playstation 3 games will play on PCs with Nvidia hardware. Silly, I know, but people will ask.
Nvidia nabs PS3 graphics contract [TheRegister]
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Nvidia Making PS3 Graphics Chip [Kotaku]
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