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I dont see that nvidia is "finished"...
And please dont get me wrong, i really dont want to upset the people in this
group after they spent so much time helping me with some issues i have had in the past week with my hardware, and giving me some good info on radeon cards. i dont think that the current "scandal" with nvidia will kill that company, and i think that nvidia saw this coming a mile away... it seems that nvidia has done quite alot of diversification in the past, making chipsets for the xbox, making motherboard chipsets, etc... it seems as though somewhere down the line they said "enough with this high end gaming business, we can make far more money by pandering to the middle range consumer". and that is what they did. Its like 3dfx and nvidia years ago. 3dfx decided to go after a certain market, while nvidia catered to a high end market. in this case, you could compare call it nvidia going for that middle range market and ati going for the high end. The problem that 3dfx had was releasing way to many cards at the same time in a desperate attempt to regain market share... a problem that nvidia doesnt have. years ago ati wasnt a contender for high end, then the radeon 7500 and 8500's changed all that, and nvidia was faced with competetion for the first time ever. If this is the result (these bad benchmarks with HL2) of nvidia having competetion, then it marks a turning point for the company, and hopefully they can stop and change direction and gt back on track, just like 3dfx was NOT able to do. Still, this doesnt spell out the end for nvidia. If they have cards that cost less, and which run games, that is what about 80% of the market will tolerate. Admit it... 8/10 gamers could care less about what we here care about, and that mass market is what keeps hardware and software companies in business. It costs less to make Geforce4 cards than the new 5900 cards, and if nvidia sold enough geforce4 cards to still turn a huge profit, they would never complain. they got themselves in trouble with behcnmarks, they should have shut up about 3dmark, and i am sort of grinning at my own decision to get a 9600 pro card now, but i dont want nvidia to die. in fact, no one here should want nvidia to die. Why did ati become so good in the 3d game? it was because they were trying to compete with nvidia. if one company has a monopoly for a market, its never a good thing. still, i dont think nvidia is dying by any means, they are just at a point where they have to decide if they want to go mass market only, or seriously work on making great cards, and ignoring little squabbles like whether or not someone optomizes cards for benchmarking. thats my opinion. worth what you paid for it btw ;-) thanks for reading. |
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