| fatslob-:O said: Funny extension to exhibit A. Nvidia demanded royalties from the Xbox 360 because Microsoft wanted backwards compatibility. I imagine that Microsoft got pretty mad after that but in the next generation Microsoft released DX12 to spite Nvidia because Microsoft somewhat resented Nvidia in the past and they weren't going to make the same mistake again going all buddy-buddy with them ... Not even Apple wants to deal with Nvidia! Practically every major ISVs don't like Nvidia very much. It just goes to show you how shitty of part supplier Nvidia really is ... Nvidia would want to be a part supplier at least to show their IP dominance and monopoly but they can't since not many ISVs like their attitude ... Their mobile products aren't exactly doing so hot since they demanded that Qualcomm pay them 352 million dollars cause of the losses by competing against them LOL ... (Consoles were low margin yet they happily entered the mobile space. Pathetically hypocritical if you ask me. |
)It seems like a pretty transparent case of sour grapes when Nintendo, SCE and MS went with AMD for their GPUs; what else were they supposed to say?
Apple flip flops between AMD and Nvidia for their discreet GPU models. It would be a bit maddenlng if it weren't for the fact that driver support is not an issue as they function the same under OSX; it really just comes down to a price/performance prospect when it comes to OEM bids. The consumer pays the same regardless, so it really only effects Apple's bottom line per unit.
What's interesting is that discrete GPUs are only an option with premium priced models; I wouldn't be surprised if these comprised less than half of the hardware units sold.
