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According to our two independent, unconnected sources, the Nintendo 3DS - almost certain to be revealed at E3 - features a design totally divorced from the NVIDIA Tegra SoC (system on chip) initially thought to have been powering the DS successor.
Meanwhile, IGN corroborates the story that NVIDIA is out of the picture, quoting "off-the-record" developer sources as saying that the 3DS is up there in the power stakes with PS3 and Xbox 360.
It's a statement that needs to be taken with barrel-loads of salt bearing in mind the enormous power draw such a chipset would require.
Indeed, even the four-core PowerVP chip said to be at the heart of the PSP2 offers a performance level some way between the original Xbox and the 360. A more modest GPU is therefore a much more realistic proposition, especially bearing in mind that even the iPhone 3GS with its PowerVR SGX535 architecture doesn't exactly command outstanding battery life in 3D gaming.
The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.
Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.
Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.
Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.
That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.
It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.
A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.
People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers
Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.
I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.
The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷♂️
LOL what did i say yesterday? Exactly that.
I doubt it.
this is just going to turn out to expensive and is just is not like nintendo but then again they have made alot of money of ds but really see me buying this if its over £250
lol i highly doubt it.
LoL. Nintendo isn't about performance. Nintendo is about profitability, and making a handheld affordable, and durable, enough for a parent to want to buy one for their kid.
The 3DS will probably be not much more than a stepping above a DSi, similar to the DSi(1 133/ 1 66 MHz ARM processors, 16MB RAM) stepping above the DS (1 66, 1 33 MHz ARM processors, 4MB RAM).
I'm calling it: A 266 MHz ARM, and a 133 MHz ARM. 32-64MB RAM. Basically on par with the PSP. Heck maybe they'll bump the ARM responsible for graphics ops a little more. That's a lot of handheld horsepower -- perfectly capable of rendering stereo images at PSP resolutions, and still fits with the Nintendo plan. Look at the DS, and the Wii. Is Nintendo looking to run in the console tech race, or are they looking to do mega-profitable business?
100% BC with the DS/DSi. Getting BC with the DS line would be next to impossible on anything but another ARM processor pair. Handheld processors aren't meaty enough to emulate the DSi in software yet, so they've got to be upgrades of the same architecture, or the 3DS would have to include a DSi in it.
Including a DSi, AND a new chip, would cost Nintendo a load of money. They aren't gonna do that. I can't imagine them all sitting in their comfy gold-encrusted chairs, saying "hey, lets sell stuff for a loss next... or just overprice it, and see how far we get with that. How about dumping the battery life to under an hour, too?"