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Originally Posted by hotnikkelz View Post
@gerbick

Why would you choose Nvidia Tegra hardware?
Is there something special about it? (genuine curiosity)
Not that it's specifically a good platform - it's been shown that many Tegra 2 exclusive programs will also work on other platforms without incident for the most part - but for some of the games... I'm enjoying my Xoom.

Games like Sprinkle, MiniGore HD, Fruit Ninja THD, Reckless Racing HD, Riptide GP, Bang Bang Racing are all pretty great looking games and they don't drop frames for the most part. And honestly? I'm willing to bet that Nvidia helps out folks with their development to ensure it's a good delivered game on that platform.

I'm tired of folks loving the daylights out of games that were released in some cases almost 20 years ago, if not further out. I played Tetris on my HP 48GX - having it on my phone does not excite me. Having played Pacman on so many platforms in the past, it doesn't excite me to play that now.

Gimme 3D graphics. Gimme Openfeint. Gimme something that supports Unity3D. Gimme something way more modern than NES and Sega Genesis games.

And if not Tegra 2 or higher, gimme hardware that doesn't struggle if I were to expect something more than just some game from 12 years ago.

All these ARM variations seem to be too comparable to matter on the consumer side. Qualcomm, TI, Samsung Exynos, Apple A whatever, Tegra. Is there THAT much of a difference?
Actually... not really. I'm not stupid enough to say otherwise. But what kills me... OMAP while a beast, I've never seen anything graphically on it that made me just go "holy ****" - whereas I've seen some rather impressive things on Exynos, Tegra, Hummingbird, et al.

And who knows... perhaps Tegra will make folks stop using the same Qualcomm chipset, incorporate dual core into WP7 and make use of something that will finally make me go "holy ****"
 

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