Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins
“To put a finer point on that, I don't think there's any software involved. I think everything is hard-coded in these chips at this point in time.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Mar 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo's Origins
Transcript context
…Not just on the raw costs, but on the assembly time. Soldering takes time. At this point, there's very little software involved in these games. You're mostly hard coding the functionality onto the motherboard itself, depending on what chips you put in. To put a finer point on that, I don't think there's any software involved. I think everything is hard-coded in these chips at this point in time. This is managing to create games using just electrical engineering.…
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