| ▲ | rustyhancock 4 hours ago | |
They were also bailed out by Sega. When they couldn't deliver the console GPU they promised for the Dreamcast (the NV2), Shoichiro Irimajiri, the Sega CEO at the time let them keep the cash in exchange for stock [0]. Without it Nvidia would have gone bankrupt months before Riva 128 changed things. Sega console arm went bust not that it mattered. But they sold the stock for about $15mn (3x). Had they held it, Jensen Huang ,estimated itd be worth a trillion[1]. Obviously Sega and especially it's console arm wasn't really into VC but... My wet dream has always been what if Sega and Nvidia stuck together and we had a Sega tegra shield instead of a Nintendo switch? Or even what if Sega licensed itself to the Steam Deck? You can tell I'm a sega fan boy but I can't help that the Mega Drive was the first console I owned and loved! [0] https://www.gamespot.com/articles/a-5-million-gift-from-sega... | ||