Nvidia: PS4 partnership not worth the cost

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Tony Tamasi, senior executive in charge of content and technology at Nvidia, seemed to suggest that Nvidia did not want to persue negotiations with Sony due to disagreements revolving around costs and royalties.

"I'm sure there was a negotiation that went on," Tamasi told sources, "and we came to the conclusion that we didn't want to do the business at the price those guys were willing to pay".

He also added: "Having been through the original Xbox and PS3, we understand the economics of console development and the tradeoffs."

Sony's reason for choosing AMD to build the PS4's GPU is probably a secret which will stay within the PlayStation executive circle.

It is thought that AMD did win the contract to build GPUs for thes next Xbox, though this information has yet to be confirmed.

Tamasi seemed to suggest that Nvidia is not too discouraged about losing out on a major deal.
"We're building a whole bunch of stuff," he said.

"In the end, you only have so many engineers and so much capability, and if you're going to go off and do chips for Sony or Microsoft, then that's probably a chip that you're not doing for some other portion of your business.

"And at least in the case of Sony and Nvidia, in terms of PS4, AMD has the business and Nvidia doesn't. We'll see how that plays out from a business perspective I guess. It's clearly not a technology thing."

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GossipPosted:

Xbox 720 is still going to beat the PS4

SynybunPosted:

Mazur
SOG @Mazur, we pay for online services, we get much better services.


indeed we do, although the only better service we get is getting DLC a month before everyone else...


And better security.

SkylineLegendsPosted:

Yikes
DLT
Yikes
EMT
BackHandLegend
Vice
BackHandLegend
Yikes
Teh
Ero This time around i think PS4 will finally beat xbox.


I Hope they do :D


yeah me too


I really don't give a crap, if the PS4 isn't going to have party chat or skype or anything like that, it is worthless.


very true, one advantage xbox has always had..


There's really no reason to get offended, but I'd be bored out of my butt playing a game and then not being able to talk to friends who are playing another game or are in a different match. Its just so... sooooo... BORING.


I agree it makes the game just not fun


Ikr, when I'm playing Xbox I need someone to play with and talk toor ill get bored.


I only use my Xbox for speaking in parties now. I'll be in a party with mates and play on my PC instead of Xbox.


Yeah, ive been doing that a lot lately, I dont think id even play the PS4 much.


PC is loads better than both and we have Skype.

DLTPosted:

Yikes
EMT
BackHandLegend
Vice
BackHandLegend
Yikes
Teh
Ero This time around i think PS4 will finally beat xbox.


I Hope they do :D


yeah me too


I really don't give a crap, if the PS4 isn't going to have party chat or skype or anything like that, it is worthless.


very true, one advantage xbox has always had..


There's really no reason to get offended, but I'd be bored out of my butt playing a game and then not being able to talk to friends who are playing another game or are in a different match. Its just so... sooooo... BORING.


I agree it makes the game just not fun


Ikr, when I'm playing Xbox I need someone to play with and talk toor ill get bored.


I only use my Xbox for speaking in parties now. I'll be in a party with mates and play on my PC instead of Xbox.

TactrusPosted:

Yikes
EMT
BackHandLegend
Vice
BackHandLegend
Yikes
Teh
Ero This time around i think PS4 will finally beat xbox.


I Hope they do :D


yeah me too


I really don't give a crap, if the PS4 isn't going to have party chat or skype or anything like that, it is worthless.


very true, one advantage xbox has always had..


There's really no reason to get offended, but I'd be bored out of my butt playing a game and then not being able to talk to friends who are playing another game or are in a different match. Its just so... sooooo... BORING.


I agree it makes the game just not fun


Ikr, when I'm playing Xbox I need someone to play with and talk toor ill get bored.



Yeah, same. I hate playing without someone to talk to.

MTVPosted:

BackHandLegend
Vice
BackHandLegend
Yikes
Teh
Ero This time around i think PS4 will finally beat xbox.


I Hope they do :D


yeah me too


I really don't give a crap, if the PS4 isn't going to have party chat or skype or anything like that, it is worthless.


very true, one advantage xbox has always had..


There's really no reason to get offended, but I'd be bored out of my butt playing a game and then not being able to talk to friends who are playing another game or are in a different match. Its just so... sooooo... BORING.


I agree it makes the game just not fun

valdistonPosted:

Well good for AMD I guess. It's there final dying effort since they are basically done for as a company. Nvidia and Intel are so many generations ahead of them in development that they aren't even considered a business rival anymore.

BackHandLegendPosted:

Vice
BackHandLegend
Yikes
Teh
Ero This time around i think PS4 will finally beat xbox.


I Hope they do :D


yeah me too


I really don't give a crap, if the PS4 isn't going to have party chat or skype or anything like that, it is worthless.


very true, one advantage xbox has always had..


There's really no reason to get offended, but I'd be bored out of my butt playing a game and then not being able to talk to friends who are playing another game or are in a different match. Its just so... sooooo... BORING.

MazurPosted:

SOG @Mazur, we pay for online services, we get much better services.


indeed we do, although the only better service we get is getting DLC a month before everyone else...

SOGPosted:

@Mazur, we pay for online services, we get much better services.


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