Nintendo has always been a company known for focusing on one goal, developing handheld consoles that are, thanks to their games and hardware, extremely fun and easy to use. Console 3DS that they developed, it was a great advance because it allowed it to greatly exceed the capabilities of its predecessor, and we all know that, but what surely no one knew is that several years before, it already existed a prototype of this video game console, and he created it Nvidia.
The Nintendo 3DS This was a big step forward for the Japanese company, as it included a new technology that was the cornerstone of its sales, although, as we well know, this version could not surpass its predecessor in terms of sales. The console that succeeds the DS was launched in 2011, but thanks to the enormous leaks
MG20, the prototype created by NVIDIA for the 3DS
In general, we know that Nvidia Yes Nintendo They have collaborated on some occasions, such as for the implementation of the Tegra X1 processor in the Nintendo Switch, but thanks to the Youtuber Dump of rare gameswe can know that this was not the first time that the two companies came into contact to work together, since many years before the creation of the Nintendo Switch they had already cooperated to create the console 3DS
Indeed, as we know well, the successor of DS did not end up integrating the processor created by Nvidiasince we would have realized this a long time ago without resorting to leaks. But today we can know that CPU developed by the Japanese company DMPwasn’t the only one thought to be used in this legendary gaming console, and it wasn’t even the first option.
A key piece of NVIDIA history
As we have already indicated previously, the prototype MG20, did not see the light of day, but that does not imply that the current most important company in the graphics sector considered it a mistake, since it ended up becoming something fundamental for it. And this has directly to do with the following collaboration which Nvidia
We can know this thanks to youtuber that we already mentioned, well Dump of rare gamescarried out an investigation which allows us to know that the project manager who developed the CPUs Tegra presented 2 years before 3DSis also the same one who worked on the prototype MG20 with Nintendo. This implies that the 3DS It wasn’t just a console that was the key to Nintendosince thanks to MG20one of its prototypes, we can say that it also became a key piece for Nvidia.
