Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of graphics processor company Nvidia, sat down for an interview recently and talked a bit about Sony, who has hired Nvidia's services for graphics processors and such exclusively for the PS3. About the PS3, he is "excited that they made Blu-ray high-definition storage as a standard part of the PlayStation 3 platform ... to postpone it by a few months so they could include Blu-Ray was a master stroke." A master stroke. That just sounds so artistic.Another worthwhile snippit for debate is Huang's response about the PS3's price point. He said: "the important thing is you cannot announce a game console for the next ten years and not have Blu-Ray. It's an impossible scenario. The moment we put those consoles together it's going to be very clear. If I'm going to buy a next-generation game console, I'm going to buy a console with next-generation media. It's going to last 10 years."
He also responded to the lack of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray in the Microsoft machine. He said they'd probably modify the system by year end, which is probably true. But as to the modification, Huang said "I don't know how they will do it. But I just can't imagine going to a store and saying that this console has a Blu-Ray and this one has DVD. Remember Dreamcast?" Some of us do remember Dreamcast. It was a great system that was crushed in majority by the PS2 and the jumping of third-party makers. Great system. Skies of Arcadia, anyone? It was ported for a reason.
While the interview is long and most of it is about Nvidia and ATI, it's still worth a look. Feel free to toss up any quotes in a comment, and discussion will ensue.
[Update: included the fact Sony has Nvidia's help exclusively -- thanks, Cage, for bringing it up!]
