Nvidia CEO Confident in PS3
San Jose Mercury News’ Dean Takahashi had an interview with Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. They spoke about how the PS3’s inclusion of Blu-ray at the expense of a delay was a “master stroke”. Jen-Hsun Huang said that Nvidia is in a good position to ride the success of what he imagines will be a highly-regarded platform (Nvidia is supplying the RSX GPU for the PlayStation 3).
Takahashi asked if Nvidia “chose the right horse in the videogame war” this time around (Nvidia supplied the GPU for the original Xbox, while rival ATI supplies the GPU for the Xbox 360 and the upcoming Nintendo Wii).Huang responded, “…I don’t think that working with Sony is wrong. There is no way that is going to be wrong. There are many wonderful things that Sony did. I’m excited that they made Blu-ray high-definition storage as a standard part of the PlayStation 3 platform. The first PlayStation had a CD-ROM drive. The PlayStation 2 had DVD. It makes no sense for the PlayStation 3 to use DVDs. …”
He continued, “To postpone it by a few months so they could include Blu-Ray was a master stroke. When that comes out, it’s going to look so much more advanced than last-generation game consoles. I think that was a wonderful call on their part”.
Source: Next Generation
