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fillet on 30 March 2013
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Lawlight said:
walsufnir said:
Lawlight said:
walsufnir said:
Lawlight said:
walsufnir said:
Lawlight said:

Wow, nvidia is really obsessed with the PS4, aren't they?

mmh, doubtful. they deliver a lot of chips to smartphones and they are trying to expand this business. i think there is a lot more money to make with tegra than amd does with ps4 (and nextbox, of course).

 

What is there to be doubtful about? Nvidia has been dissing the next generation of consoles for months now. It's clear that they're very salty.

I remember they said that nextgen is already outdated - there is more powerful hardware already available. As a company this is just usual business, that's all. They want PC-guys to pay for "the way it's meant to be played". Nothing more, nothing less.


Oh, not just that. Nvidia has been bitter about consoles for a long time now. Like when they said that the next gen of consoles will be the last. Or when they said that they let AMD have the next generation of consoles. Or when they said that the PS4 GPU equals a low-end nvidia one. And one this. All in the space of a few months? Is it usual business to make so many statements about a competitor in such a short span of time?


1. Yes, it is.

2. What statement isn't true? There are some which can be argued but these statements are not way off!


1. No, it isn't.

2. No one said it's not true. Of course, a $400-$1000 GPU is going to be more powerful than a $150 one. My point, which still stands, is about how nvidia is butthurt about being the least relevant graphics card manufacturer in gaming.


1. Yes, it is.

2. "butthurt" doesn't come into it. nvidia isn't a playground bully or a person with emotions. It's a company that will do anything to make money within the remit of the law. That's the purpose of a for profit company and that's what it's shareholders would want. There's nothing evil going on here, it's just standard PR sparring. Don't take it so personally :) It really isn't personal, you know when you read say a tabeloid newspaper that's full of spin and all that, that journalist who has written it is doing their job. The purpose is to sensationalize and put across and agenda. Nvidia has an agenda just like every other company in the world, no big deal.

I'll also draw you to the fact that AMD was doing this kind of thing for years back in the days where it's CPUs ran at a lower clock speed compared to Intel's but did more work per clock and they rated their CPUs in relation to Intel calling a 1.86Ghz CPU a 2100+ for example. Is that dishonest? Is that misleading? Is that wrong, no, it's business.

Don't get suckered into this and think that it's all about the end customer for a product they have decided not to invest in, it's not, it's all about the MONEY, it's all about the perception, and NOT the perception of YOU or ME or anyone on a gaming website, but the perception of investors and shareholders and people who may be interested in the Gefore Titan etc.