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Nvidia "preparing appropriate mitigations"
News Nintendo Is Bringing Classic Wii Games To The Nvidia Shield In China
Could we see these on Switch?
News Nvidia CEO Hails Nintendo Switch As "A Home Run", Is Open To Working On Other Consoles
"It was the perfect collaboration for us"
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News Just How Good Is The Nvidia Shield Wii Emulator, And What Does It Mean For Switch Owners?
Digital Foundry finds out
Nvidia and Nintendo are pretty cosy right now, thanks to the fact that the former is supplying the very capable internal technology for the best-selling Switch console. The two firms are such fast friends that Nintendo has allowed Nvidia to launch a series of Wii classics on its Android-based Shield console, which is based...
March2018
News Here's How The Nvidia Shield Port Of Mario Galaxy Handles The Lack Of Motion Controls
Retro-fitting the past
Super Mario Galaxy touched down on the Nvidia Shield in China recently as part of a deal which will see other Wii classics come to the set-top box in that region. As we all know, Galaxy made good use of the Wii's motion-sensing controller to deliver fun gesture-based gameplay - something that is impossible on Nvidia's...
Video Digital Foundry Considers "Nintendo Switch Pro" With NVIDIA Tegra X2 Processor
Power up!
Our good chums over at Digital Foundry certainly do like to look to the future when it comes to gaming tech. Having debated the benefits of the PS4 Pro and the more recently released Xbox One X, both of which offer substantial benefits to gameplay performance on existing games, industry veteran Richard Leadbetter turns his...
January2018
News CPU Exploits Meltdown And Spectre Could Potentially Affect Nintendo Switch
Nvidia "preparing appropriate mitigations"
You've probably seen in the mainstream news this week that a serious security flaw has been found in the way most modern CPUs work. Devices are already being patched, but come with a cost of a performance loss. The exploits have been confirmed by Apple to affect both their Intel based devices and ARM-based...
December2017
News Nintendo Is Bringing Classic Wii Games To The Nvidia Shield In China
Could we see these on Switch?
Earlier this year we brought you the rumour that Nintendo was planning to release New Super Mario Bros on the Nvidia Shield in China. Given how difficult it is to sell consoles in China, it would appear that Nintendo is using smart devices like the Nvidia Shield to crack the market and sell its games. Naturally...
May2017
News Nvidia CEO Hails Nintendo Switch As "A Home Run", Is Open To Working On Other Consoles
"It was the perfect collaboration for us"
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has been speaking during a recent investor's Q&A about the Nintendo Switch and its impact on his company's business - which, as we reported this morning, is pretty positive. During the session, Huang was asked if the early success of the Switch will open up the console...
News Nintendo Switch Demand Adds As Much As $192 Million To Nvidia's Bottom Line
Tegra business is on the up-and-up
The success of the Nintendo Switch has had a positive impact on the financial fortunes of Nvidia, which supplies the chipset for the hybrid console. Nvidia's Q1 report for the 2018 fiscal year reports that revenues for its Tegra lines of processors rose to $332m, which is more than double what was seen...
March2017
News Nintendo Switch Chip X-Ray Suggests The Console Is Running A Stock Nvidia Tegra X1
Downclocked from the version running in Android Shield TV
When it was announced that the Nintendo Switch would indeed be using an Nvidia Tegra chipset there was rampant speculation regarding the exact silicon it would contain, with some optimistic individuals holding out hope that it would be the next-generation Pascal-based X2 chip. As time has...
February2017
News ARM Confirms That The Nintendo Switch's Chipset Is Very Close To Tegra X1 Spec
UPDATE: ARM deletes Facebook post, claims it wasn't "an official statement"
UPDATE: ARM has now removed the post in question and has stressed that it was not an official statement. Exactly why a component supplier for Nvidia is posting spec details if it's not entirely sure they are correct is anyone's guess, but for the time being it would seem...
January2017
PlayStation Now is another example of the creeping role of cloud gaming
It seems an age ago now, but once upon a time Cloud Gaming was said to be an imminent reality - in 2010 it was hot news, with excitable talk about a revolution in how we play games. The concept has always been simple in theory - utilise remote processing power delivered by the...
News Prepare To Be Blown Away By Nintendo Switch, Says Nvidia CEO
"It's really delightful"
Nvidia's Shield range of micro-consoles, handhelds and tablets has done a fine job of getting company recognition in the gaming arena, and has paid off handsomely with the Nintendo Switch - a hybrid system with Nvidia's Tegra technology at its heart. Speaking to Venturebeat recently, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang covered a wide...
Live Blog Watch NVIDIA's CES 2017 Keynote Address - Live!
Gaming is part of the agenda
Here's a little bonus live stream action, as we have NVIDIA founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang giving the keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2017) in Las Vegas. Confirmed topics are artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, virtual reality, and gaming. Naturally we're interested in the...
December2016
News Nvidia's Shield Range Lives On In 2017, Despite The Impending Arrival Of Nintendo Switch
Could this be the Switch in disguise?
When rumours were circulating last year that Nvidia was working with Nintendo on what was then known as the NX, one of the key pointers was the cancellation of the 2016 Shield Tablet device. This added weight to the speculation that the graphics card giant was refocusing its energy
News NVIDIA is Named the Yahoo Finance Company of the Year
AI and gaming are the key to incredible growth for the company
One of ongoing debates prior to the unveiling of the Nintendo Switch was the company that would ultimately supply the GPU; reports pointing to NVIDIA were countered with suggestions AMD would get the nod, especially as the latter has had a lockdown on consoles for a decent period of...
November2016
News NVIDIA CEO Talks Up 'Incredible' Nintendo Switch
Expects people to be "amazed by it"
The Nintendo Switch, as we found out during its reveal, is going to be powered by a custom Tegra GPU by NVIDIA. For a few years the 'Tegra' range has aimed to deliver powerful portable graphics while suiting handheld / mobile formats; with the impressive work seen in older chips in the 'Shield' devices, it'll be...
October2016
News Nvidia Tegra Officially Confirmed As The Tech Behind Nintendo Switch
Powered by a custom chipset made just for Nintendo
Nintendo has just lifted the lid on its next games console, the Nintendo Switch. In a short video presentation, the system's unique hybrid focus was revealed, alongside detachable controllers known as "Joy-Cons". All of this tied in with previous rumours regarding the system, and now the final...
August2016
News Nvidia Formally Ditches SHIELD Tablet Successor, Reinforcing NX Reports
Showcase range ended ahead of Nintendo's hardware
As you're no doubt well aware by now, substantial reports around the NX published by Eurogamer and reinforced by follow-up sources - some of which we've spoken to - have given the strongest indications yet of the make-up of Nintendo's next system. There are counter-rumours and reports, of course,...
News Report Points to Nintendo NX Manufacturing Ramping Up in Q4 2016
Digitimes reinforces NVIDIA Tegra X1 Claims
As we await the official Nintendo NX reveal, with reported sources and logic suggesting a September unveiling, more reports and snippets of potential information are to be expected. Another to pitch in is Digitimes, a publication that often pops up when there are rumours around manufacturing new hardware...
July2016
News Talking Point: Nintendo NX Deal Is A Vindication Of Nvidia's Shield Program
A mutually beneficial agreement that could be a boon for gamers
Reports that Nvidia's Tegra tech is going to power Nintendo's apparently portable NX console triggered a fairly familiar reaction online yesterday. Perhaps not all that familiar to those of you under the age of 20, but veterans will surely have gotten a sense of deja vu as the
Rumour Nintendo NX Will Be Powered By Nvidia's Mobile-Focused Tegra Tech
Possibly Tegra X2, the company's latest offering
It has long been assumed that the forthcoming NX console would use AMD's tech and would be based on x86 architecture - just like the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Indeed, we've had reports that Nintendo's new console is on par with its establis
June2010
News 3DS Will Supposedly Not Use NVIDIA's Tegra Technology
Digital Foundry's sources 'corroborates' what was claimed by IGN's insiders
When rumblings of a new generation of handheld from Nintendo were first felt last year, there were reports of industry insiders leaking information on the 3DS hardware architecture. Claims of NVIDIA's Tegra chip being used in the 3DS are now being contradicted by Digital Foundry's sources, who claim that a Nintendo/NVIDIA..
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