4th February 2004, 2:22 PM
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True, but as that article says there are significant technological hurdles they'd have to overcome... its not exactly easy to go from NVidia and Intel to ATI and IBM without some problems, you know! As that details, the NVidia chip has some propriatary NVidia pixel shaders in it so MS would either have to liscense them from NVidia and include another physical chip to do the emulation, or do it in software and lose some detail because doing it in software could be hard even for one a lot faster like this will be... and also it's a IBM chip so they'd need to run the code on that somehow... the article mentions maybe using the Connectix (Virtual PC?) technology, maybe...
Quote:Not having backwards compatibility would be a bad thing for the Xbox2, especially if the PS3 and the GC2 have it.
True, but as that article says there are significant technological hurdles they'd have to overcome... its not exactly easy to go from NVidia and Intel to ATI and IBM without some problems, you know! As that details, the NVidia chip has some propriatary NVidia pixel shaders in it so MS would either have to liscense them from NVidia and include another physical chip to do the emulation, or do it in software and lose some detail because doing it in software could be hard even for one a lot faster like this will be... and also it's a IBM chip so they'd need to run the code on that somehow... the article mentions maybe using the Connectix (Virtual PC?) technology, maybe...