NVIDIA Tegra Architecture

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-launching-gaming-platform-3rd-march-2015/

nVIDIA will announce a new gaming platform on March 3rd. It obviously is not a new iteration from Shield then. That leaves us with a set top box gaming console then? Comments on the article talk about an Android OS console, but my tin foil hat thinks different. What if nVIDIA developed its own Gaming OS? After all it was 5 years in the making, I doubt they needed that much time to put together a set top box, unless you count waiting for Tegra X1. Hell, they put together the first Shield Handheld in over a year alone. Imagine if they could have pulled up a system to easily port PC, Xbox ONE and PS4 (after all they are all x86 based) games over to their own console, powered by a Denver based chip, since its architecture may allow them to do all kinds of crazy stuff. Yes, yes, I am speculating overboard here...

Probably because it would fit a mock up article I wrote for a gaming news website I did some years ago :D Well, after all they did the Shield Handheld, something I had invented on the article (called it Tegra Max back then and would use Kepler cores and Denver.. essentially what ended up being TK1). On my mock up I also invented that they had created their own OS and App Store, setting up a minimum price on games (no free games!) in order to help indie developers make some cash and avoid them being ripped of by other developers making free clones. That would include as well a freely available SDK to code games for it (a further advanced GameWorks). Well, if this view turns out true I should apply for nVIDIA CEO xD I promise I would be less of a money grabbing idiot :D
 
Having an Android TV + Tegrazone + the Grid would make sense and be coherent with their offering.
Actually I wish they would still produce a more portable and even more importantly properly priced Shield handheld.
 
Why isn't it going to be a TX1 Shield handheld?
The first device will be 2 years old in a couple of months.
 
Because:
1) Shield Handheld and Shield Tablet are not exactly a "new gaming platform", keyword being "platform".
2) Shield would not "redefine the future of gaming".
3) Android TV is not a new platform, it already exists and, more importantly, is not owned by nVIDIA.
4) It has been in development for 5 years according to nVIDIA. Shield was born 2 years ago and not planned that much beforehand.
5) I doubt Android TV has been in development for the last 5 years. Otherwise Google was terrible inefficient.

Honestly, to fit the bill and the hype, it must really be something new, coming out of the blue, unexpected, dropping jaw revelation type. Anything else and will be meh.
 
Could be a VR headset for the new Shield Tablet. Besides, with marketing documents there's often little point in wondering about the use of one term over another, they just pick what sounds best.
 
Picao84 said:
OK, but why call it a "gaming platform" (instead of interface) and why invite mobile related press to the event? Would not VR be more appropriate to desktop gaming? I'm quite intrigued with this :D
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Wasn't Xiaomi supposed to be working on some sort of Android console with a Tegra according to rumors? That, a VR set of any sort, the Shield itself etc. all don't sound to me like they'd truly revolutionize gaming or I'm obviously missing something essential. As for the funkier suggestions about their own OS you made, or slightly modified their own low level API I'm sorry but it sounds like a weird investment with the market share Tegra SoCs currently have in consumer devices how high do you really think their chances are for penetration for either/or?

That green picture on NV's homesite that advertises for the event reminds me of a gaming notebook of some sort. Revolutionary? Not really....:rolleyes:
 
Ailuros said:
Wasn't Xiaomi supposed to be working on some sort of Android console with a Tegra according to rumors? That, a VR set of any sort, the Shield itself etc. all don't sound to me like they'd truly revolutionize gaming or I'm obviously missing something essential. As for the funkier suggestions about their own OS you made, or slightly modified their own low level API I'm sorry but it sounds like a weird investment with the market share Tegra SoCs currently have in consumer devices how high do you really think their chances are for penetration for either/or?
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Hey I did not say it would be successful or make sense :D
This is nVIDIA we are talking about here.. Judging by the way Tegra was managed, I would not be surprised to see them pulling something like that off just to see it crash hard ;)
 
Picao84 said:
Because:
1) Shield Handheld and Shield Tablet are not exactly a "new gaming platform", keyword being "platform".
2) Shield would not "redefine the future of gaming".
3) Android TV is not a new platform, it already exists and, more importantly, is not owned by nVIDIA.
4) It has been in development for 5 years according to nVIDIA. Shield was born 2 years ago and not planned that much beforehand.
5) I doubt Android TV has been in development for the last 5 years. Otherwise Google was terrible inefficient.

Honestly, to fit the bill and the hype, it must really be something new, coming out of the blue, unexpected, dropping jaw revelation type. Anything else and will be meh.
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An Android console would have a small chance of success. A linux console might have a better chance if they can get Steam interoperability without an x86 core.

A new console with a new OS would stand almost a 0% chance of success. I don't think Nvidia are that stupid. Unless by gaming console they mean just stream your PC games to the Nvidia "console" box. But there are plenty of options that could do that better and probably cheaper. Like any sub 100 USD Windows tablet.

Regards,
SB
 
Silent_Buddha said:
An Android console would have a small chance of success. A linux console might have a better chance if they can get Steam interoperability without an x86 core.

A new console with a new OS would stand almost a 0% chance of success. I don't think Nvidia are that stupid. Unless by gaming console they mean just stream your PC games to the Nvidia "console" box. But there are plenty of options that could do that better and probably cheaper. Like any sub 100 USD Windows tablet.

Regards,
SB
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That is why I advanced the "idea" of having a system for developers to easily port games from PC/XBOX/PS4 to it. nVIDIA has a strong connection with developers as can be seen by the adoption of GameWorks and other proprietary stuff. A new console and OS all by itself would certainly fail, but together with easy porting it might not be that bad. Yes, I am speculating too much without any basis on reality, but there are not many options for a "new gaming platform" since they already did a Shield handheld, a Shield tablet and offers GPU's on the PC Market. Can you think on any other platform other than a home console? Maybe they did, who knows.. after all its supposed to revolutionise gaming...
 
xpea said:
what about a gaming console powered by a new soc ? (more powerful than X1)
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The only thing I'm expecting to hear about its tape out soon is Parker which should be clear by now that it's on Samsung 14nm. Apart from the Denver + Maxwell combination I haven't heard a hint yet that it'll be leaps and bounds ahead X1, but that doesn't mean anything either.
 
"New gaming platform", "redefine the future of gaming", "5 years in the making"...

I'm sorry to break it for you, but this is screaming "nVidia Cloud Games" everywhere. Probably just an implementation of GRID for games in desktop/hometheater PCs.
There's no mention of GeForce or Tegra anywhere in the webpage, nor any hint that we're looking at a product instead of a service.
 
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