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TalkBack / RE:Nintendo Fifth Largest Company in Japan
« on: July 28, 2007, 06:47:19 AM »
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General Gaming / RE:MS Teams with IBM for Xbox2
« on: November 04, 2003, 10:44:30 PM »
It can be argued that ArtX has turned ATI from lingering in nvidia's shadows to being able to teach the once all capable graphiczilla a thing or two about 3d performance (see: DX9, R3xx vs NV3x).
Dave Orton, now CEO of ATI was also the founder and head of ArtX. Most of ArtX's engineers went to ATI's west coast, Santa Clara team. A few went to ATI's east coast, Marlborough team.
ATI's Marlborough team has worked on the R200 (Radeon 8500) and is currently working on the R500 and with MS on Xbox2. ATI's Santa Clara team did the R3xx (Radeon 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800 and all variations there of), they are also working on the upcoming R420 and with Nintendo on future products
The startup that saved ATI
"Leveraging the ArtX team in Palo Alto, Orton created a Silicon Valley base for ATI just a mile down the road from Nvidia's sprawling green-marble headquarters in Santa Clara. Engineers at the ATI site finished the GameCube graphics chip, then led the design for the R300 graphics core, ATI's first to execute Microsoft's DirectX 9 application programming interface."
Dave Orton, now CEO of ATI was also the founder and head of ArtX. Most of ArtX's engineers went to ATI's west coast, Santa Clara team. A few went to ATI's east coast, Marlborough team.
ATI's Marlborough team has worked on the R200 (Radeon 8500) and is currently working on the R500 and with MS on Xbox2. ATI's Santa Clara team did the R3xx (Radeon 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800 and all variations there of), they are also working on the upcoming R420 and with Nintendo on future products
The startup that saved ATI
"Leveraging the ArtX team in Palo Alto, Orton created a Silicon Valley base for ATI just a mile down the road from Nvidia's sprawling green-marble headquarters in Santa Clara. Engineers at the ATI site finished the GameCube graphics chip, then led the design for the R300 graphics core, ATI's first to execute Microsoft's DirectX 9 application programming interface."
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Nintendo Gaming / RE:GC sales increase 400% in UK!
« on: October 14, 2003, 04:26:33 PM »
Here are the UK numbers for last week (October 6 - 11)
PlayStation 2 - 50,000 units
GameBoy Advance - 15,000 units
Xbox - 5,300 units
GameCube - 4,800 units
n-Gage - 500 units
the-magicbox
The price cut only went into effect on Oct. 10
PlayStation 2 - 50,000 units
GameBoy Advance - 15,000 units
Xbox - 5,300 units
GameCube - 4,800 units
n-Gage - 500 units
the-magicbox
The price cut only went into effect on Oct. 10
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General Gaming / RE:ATI and Microsoft
« on: August 16, 2003, 12:15:51 AM »
Separate Teams working on Xbox and GameCube successor
With the deal, ATI will now apparently design graphics chips for two next-generation consoles, manufactured by Micorosoft and Nintendo. In March, ATI said it was developing technologies for use in future products, also suspected to be a game console. the same month where ATI signed a deal with Intel to design core logic chips and other products for use with Intel's Pentium M mobile processor.
Don't expect the graphics capabilities of future Nintendo and Microsoft products to be exactly the same, however, the ATI spokesman said. "Yes, we have different design teams working on them, with different requirements and different timetables," the spokesman said.
Individual teams are working on the VPU successor to Xbox and GameCube.
With the deal, ATI will now apparently design graphics chips for two next-generation consoles, manufactured by Micorosoft and Nintendo. In March, ATI said it was developing technologies for use in future products, also suspected to be a game console. the same month where ATI signed a deal with Intel to design core logic chips and other products for use with Intel's Pentium M mobile processor.
Don't expect the graphics capabilities of future Nintendo and Microsoft products to be exactly the same, however, the ATI spokesman said. "Yes, we have different design teams working on them, with different requirements and different timetables," the spokesman said.
Individual teams are working on the VPU successor to Xbox and GameCube.
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General Gaming / RE:ATI and Microsoft
« on: August 15, 2003, 01:00:41 PM »
No impact to ATI relationship with Nintendo
ATI already produces chips for Nintendo (news - web sites) Co. Ltd.'s (7974.OS) GameCube under a royalty agreement. Bergman said he did not expect the Microsoft deal to affect its Nintendo relationship and stressed it's not unusual for chip companies to supply products to competing firms.
"We've had a good strong long history with Nintendo and we don't expect any impact...we're comfortable with our relationship with Nintendo and I think we're great partners," he said.
David Orton now CEO of ATI was also the head of ArtX under the N64/Flipper development. The strong ties with Nintendo are still intact. I doubt either Nintendo or MS care that they use a similar VPU from the same company. Its the content that sells consoles, not tech specs.
ATI already produces chips for Nintendo (news - web sites) Co. Ltd.'s (7974.OS) GameCube under a royalty agreement. Bergman said he did not expect the Microsoft deal to affect its Nintendo relationship and stressed it's not unusual for chip companies to supply products to competing firms.
"We've had a good strong long history with Nintendo and we don't expect any impact...we're comfortable with our relationship with Nintendo and I think we're great partners," he said.
David Orton now CEO of ATI was also the head of ArtX under the N64/Flipper development. The strong ties with Nintendo are still intact. I doubt either Nintendo or MS care that they use a similar VPU from the same company. Its the content that sells consoles, not tech specs.
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General Gaming / RE:ATI and Microsoft
« on: August 14, 2003, 06:26:45 AM »Funny you should mention that. ATI has 2 dev teams Malborough (mostly original ATI, R100/R200) and their California team (mostly ArtX, R300/Flipper/N64 Reality Co-Processor). If they wanted to give each team a project they could. I'm guessing the ArtX team gets GC2 and the Malborough team gets Xbox2.
ATI to power Xbox2
ATI technology agreement with Nintendo
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Nintendo Gaming / Console Reliability (~82% for all of them)
« on: March 12, 2003, 03:16:31 PM »Quote
Originally posted by: Gamer DonkeyQuote
Its called a sample. Thats how you take a poll when it is impossible with your resources to question the entire populus. Take the news for example, do you think they ask everyone in America their opinion for their polls? Heck, I didn't get a call. And people do lie, but thats one risk of taking polls. This was not meant in a offensive manner, only in friendly-informative fashion, but a little humor thrown in for spice.
The people sampled in this survey are not equal across three variables, hence you can not compare them to one another. The survey goes:
x number from group k said product a was this reliable.
y number from group l said product b was this reliable.
z number from group m said product c was this reliable.
x,y,z being your results
k,l,m being three independent samples
a,b,c being three independent variables
You can not say, "Fact, all these products are the same across the board". Now if the products were different but the group sampled were the same, well then you could say, "My results show that among this sample this product was this reliable". In aveng's survey, he went to three different forums and asked the same question about three different products. Then he said, there you have it. Fact, all of these products are the same. I have no problem with him doing the survey. Nice effort in fact. But to call this survey the unfalliable proof that these products are the same is inaccurate.
What aveng did is three independent surveys. Fine. But what you can not do is say that the three surveys are identical and here is my conclusion. They are in fact three independent surveys with no correlation. The sample used is independent across the three forums and the product asked about is independent across the three forums.
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Nintendo Gaming / Console Reliability (~82% for all of them)
« on: March 12, 2003, 07:42:02 AM »
How does the small group of people that visit these respective forums represent the millions of owners of said consoles? Only the non-casual gamer even bothers to visit forums like the ones you've listed. Good ideal, but its not a fact that all consoles are the same when it comes to reliability. For instance, why would someone buy a console 8 times only to have it break 8 times?
How can you compare the samples directly. So far, 57 people voted at n-philes, 28 people voted at PSX Nation, and 24 people voted at the Xbox Forums. These samples can not be compared directly. You can not go around calling it a fact. Also your numbers have changed. The GC is now at 84% reliability out of those who voted at n-philes. Xbox has a 79% reliability rate out of those that have voted at Xbox forums. And PS2 is 75% for those who voted at PSX Nation. These numbers can be swayed easily or even lied about. A fanboy of x platform can just go there and lie. There is no way to verify that the people voting even own or have ever owned said console.
How can you compare the samples directly. So far, 57 people voted at n-philes, 28 people voted at PSX Nation, and 24 people voted at the Xbox Forums. These samples can not be compared directly. You can not go around calling it a fact. Also your numbers have changed. The GC is now at 84% reliability out of those who voted at n-philes. Xbox has a 79% reliability rate out of those that have voted at Xbox forums. And PS2 is 75% for those who voted at PSX Nation. These numbers can be swayed easily or even lied about. A fanboy of x platform can just go there and lie. There is no way to verify that the people voting even own or have ever owned said console.
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