We heard a lot, previously, on how consoles are gradually becoming the thing of the past, we have a video for Snapdragon S4 to tease of what the future can expect through mobile gaming and also a game developer rants to back our claim.
Now, we already knew about Nvidia’s latest bid on mobile chips where they announced it back in February this year, but which platforms are they targeting for?
Jen-Hsun Huang, the CEO of Nvidia said in a statement during the earnings conference call, “We’ve made very, very large investments in the Google operating system. And we have a great working relationship with [Google]. As soon as the next-generation Kal-El processor goes into production we can run like the wind.”
And among incoming rumors that Texas Instruments is the favored chip supplier for Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 operating system — the version of Android that is upgraded from Honeycomb and Gingerbread — Huang said, “I look forward to Ice Cream Sandwich and expect to be very successful with it.”
But Nvidia is not putting all their future into just Android. Its powerful quad-core chip might be heading to Windows 8 tablets and laptops as well, “We’re very bullish on Windows 8 for the second half of next year,” he said.
Kal-El is due for release later this year.
SteveDOF
Aug 12. 2011
2560 x 1600? Blimey! Great for new tablets that can display this, or multiple displays, but T.V.’s are unlikely to get anywhere near this res soon. Still, all good stuff, maybe tablets will be the ultimate personal device of the future?
RZ
Aug 13. 2011
Star Trek encourages me to think so…
HolyBatNipples
Aug 13. 2011
ok i officially have no respect left for this website… EVERY single article i’ve read here looks like it was written by someone who didn’t pass grade 6 english. either that or this is a website for people with down’s syndrome to write articles, i dont know.
at least the content was somewhat interesting, but how can someone take content seriously if it was written by a retard?
Amir Ariff
Aug 13. 2011
I am very sorry, just corrected the spelling and i hope it is readable for you.
sfic6
Aug 13. 2011
You may also want to check the opening sentence in the second-to-last paragraph…
I agree, it’s interesting content but the grammar mistakes/typos are distracting.
ZipZapRap
Aug 15. 2011
+41
What the hell does “kill off PS4, Xbox 720 and Wii U hope” have ANYTHING to do with this article?
This site is just an advertising spinner. Crappy articles, no substance, with key-words used to drive traffic and generate income.
No thanks.
Time to add this site to my block list.
Dagobert
Aug 15. 2011
Funny seeing this come from a person who didn’t even capitalize the first letter of the sentence. What grade were you not able to pass? The fourth grade? How can anyone take your criticism seriously when your grammar was just as bad if not worse lol.
HaVoK
Aug 15. 2011
If you are going to attack an individuals grammar or English, it would be wise to be proficient in both.
Obviously, you are not very wise. Who’s the retard again?
AM
Aug 13. 2011
Consoles gaming still has a big place in my heart. But this is amazing, I think it will bring tablets to levels of current (heck it will take them beyond many of PCs I have seen on the market in terms of technology). And the size is also incredible. Although this is not the world’s first quad core CPU. I have seen many Cortex A9 which are quad core but non have has specs as impressive as this one.
Joe
Aug 14. 2011
LOL! How the hell is an Nvidia chip going to kill PS4 and Xbox 3? You are beyond delusional. Tablet gaming is not a platform for serious or core gamers. They certainly aren’t having an impact on Xbox 360, considering it’s sales are through the roof in year 6, and Kinect is selling like gangbusters.
What idiot wrote this garbage?
Adam
Aug 14. 2011
The thing about mobile gaming being a big thing really boils down to battery life, which is more or less in the shit. So to get a good graphic game on a mobile phone, you would need to keep it constantly plugged into a power source, and then you are right back at having a console, a tiny fiddly console.
m
Aug 14. 2011
Cons of mobiles games
-Battery Life(can be fixed by keeping it plugged in but then it wouldn’t be mobile would it?)
-No buttons(Limited to touchscreen on most phones)
-For games to take advantage of these graphics they would have to be a lot bigger in size. Gigabytes I imagine.
-With the increase in size comes increase in cost. Bye Bye $1 games.
-Not enough storage on mobile phones for these large games(even if there was it would take too much to download)
-Physical Media is not an option
-Of course the large size and no physical media can be fixed with cloud gaming but no one knows if this will ever take off.
So yeah mobile gaming might have a small impact on 3DS/Vita but it has nothing to do with home consoles. They’re not competitors at all.
agree with previous post
Aug 15. 2011
Besides Kal-El will compete with PS3/Xbox 360 on a graphical level NOT with PS4/720 its not even possible think about it How can a MOBILE GPU compete graphically with significantly larger and more power hungry Gpus coming out 2-4 years later. And the resolution of 2560×1600 is BS. Sure in a lab under certain conditions you will be able to render a basic scenery at that resolution. But no way you will be able to run a game from this gen with 2560×1600. Theory and Reality are two different things.
Feed ME
Aug 15. 2011
All this “article” did was make me hungry what with talk of gingerbread, honeycomb and ice cream sandwiches!
Until mobile displays are equivalent to my 55″ LED TV, consoles aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. In other words, “mobility” is the last thing I need to sit on my comfy couch with a few friends all gaming on a display that trumps even the largest of tablets.
HaVoK
Aug 15. 2011
So the headline has nothing to do with the article. They didn’t even bother trying to make the correlation.
Just another site looking for traffic via N4G fanboys. This is downright shameful.
Consoles still dominate the Gaming landscape and will do so for a very long time. Advancement in technology such as this is nothing new in the realm of personal computers. And consoles do more than just play games. They have become the focus of ones living room and are full blown entertainment centers. This will only be expanded on in the future.
More ignorant people boasting the fall of console gaming. Hoping they will be the one to predict it at the right time. Not unlike the fools who proclaim every year for the past decade that PC Gaming is dead. Now it’s consoles. Clueless morons…be sure.
Another ignorant attempt at trolling. Which apparently was very successful. Bravo…pat yourself on the back.
Whydoyouask
Aug 15. 2011
This is one of those times where you see something so ridiculous that you don’t have anything to say about it.
Gamer
Aug 15. 2011
Crapp article with useless keywords that have nothing to do with the articel itself.
Chrissomerry
Aug 15. 2011
I think it’s very easy to see the correlation, and that some imagination is needed for some of those calling this article and its writer very disparaging terms. I’m guessing that’s just fanboy-ism and the denial of uncomfortable thoughts.
Think about it – consumers like crazes, and tablets are a craze. Furthermore, tablets, and other devices like computers are increasingly getting better capabilities, while consoles, on the other hand, tend to be far behind, and locked into a cycle and doesn’t allow them to update as regularly as things that most consumers are used to, like iPhones, iPads, etc.
They might be unrelated items, but they both take money out of the pocket of the consumer, and if mobile/PC gaming proves cheaper and better performing than the console counterparts, then, with the right conditions, it’s possible to knock console hardware into a very uncomfortable place for Ninty, Sony and MS. There has been a video-games recession before after all, and if I recall, it was because there was a lack of anything new or exciting enough to grab new consumers. The overcontent state consumers are in with their older consoles, and with their computers, phones and tablets (which are regarded as necessities), coupled with a decrease in consumer confidence, could hurt sales. Not saying it will, but the future is just as ambiguous as this article’s title so I won’t try and make any more guesses of what’s possible.
ez button
Aug 19. 2011
Add hdmi headmount display addon with a ps vita style mobile device that simulates a 100 inch 3d tv and I’m sold!!!