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NVIDIA Tegra in the next Nintendo handheld (rumor)?

By Hubert Nguyen, Posted on Oct 13, 09 08:34 PM PDT

This is a wild rumor, but the word on the street is that NVIDIA has won a contract with Nintendo for an upcoming handheld game console. Some describe it as the "successor of the DS/DSi". There is speculation that the new device would be available or at least shown in 2010. If this is true, we wonder if Nintendo will opt for the current Tegra that is in the Zune HD, for cost reasons, or will they choose the next-generation Tegra? Some wonder how power-hungry Tegra 2 would be, but my gut feeling tells me that it will stay within the same power envelope. As for the money, I think that Tegra is a very good product for NVIDIA's margins, much more so than entry-level GPUs. Finally, would that mean that NVIDIA has a foot in the door for the next Wii? Not really. Each console project is evaluated independently, although it doesn't hurt to have good relationships.

Update: someone out there mentioned backwards-compatibility. Unfortunately, it's not because the current DS and Tegra are both running with an ARM architecture that it makes both compatible. It's actually the rest of the sub-system (graphics, audio, memory etc... ) that would require some emulation.

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