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Zkuq said:

JEMC said:

I think Nvidia messed up this time and the 3060 should have had the performance of the 3060Ti. Then it would have been a good upgrade. But given how it performs, it could have been the 3050Ti that Viv is asking for.

Of course, it also depends on where you come from and how big the upgrade will be but, comparing it with theprevious generation, the performance jump is smaller than the rest of the Ampere cards.

Could definitely be better, but roughly moving up a tier per generation (xx60 -> xx70) seems fine to me. It's not the best jump, but it seems acceptable to me. It's probably not the best value for money, but personally I don't find the value too low (assuming the prices do drop to MSRP at some point). That said, it probably does depend on where you're coming from. 970, like me? Definitely worth it. 2060 or 2070? Probably not.

The card itself is ok-ish as you say, the problem comes wihen you compare it to the rest of the Ampere cards already released. That the 3070 blows past the 2080 and 2080S and goes on par with the 2080Ti and the 3060Ti not only beats the 2070 and 2070S, but it also goes past the 2080 and ends on par with the 2080S. And the 3060 now released? It's "just" on par with the 2070 from the previous generation, it can't even come close to the 2070S.

So well, it's an ok card by itself but, compared to the rest of the family, it doesn't perform as well as them.

Zkuq said:

JEMC said:

As for Valve-Apple-Epic, they say it in the article posted by Yuri. Epic says that the 30% cut that Apple makes is unfair, and Apple is using Valve to defend themseles because Valve also get a 30% cut, and they'll use that to claim that it's a common practice.

The problem here, and it's something that Epic can use against that if they have better lawyers (or at least better than  Valve's), is that developers are given free keys that they put on sale at other platforms like Humble Bundle, Fanatical, GMG, etc. from wich Valve gets nothing, something that Apple doesn't do.

I'm not a lawyer, but that doesn't make much sense to me. That's like saying "everyone's committing this wrong, so it's OK", and the next step would be 'you must sue everyone instead of just us to correct this wrong'. Besides, to me it sounds like what Apple requested (and got) was more than they needed to prove that point (at least that what it sounded like when I read the earlier news regarding this, but I don't care enough to look for the news again to check).

If I'm honest, the whole Epic vs Apple situation is the result of both sides being dicks, begining with Epic that tried to be smarter than everyone else by bypassing Apple's paying system to get 100% of the money to Apple overreacting and blocking Epic from its store entirely.

Beyond that, there are a lot of things I don't know that could shed some light into the data requested. Is the data from games released on both the Apple store and Steam? That could be understandable to make a fair comparion between stores. Does Valve get a cut from every microtransaction made in-game, even if the purchase doesn't go through Steam payment methods?

Other than that, I fail to see how Epic can win this lawsuit. PC is an open ecosystem with lots of manufacturers to choose from and several stores to use to purchase your games. With Apple that's not the case, it's a closes system and you know you'll be forced to use Apple's control to do anything. And when it comes to the Apple store, I'm sure any publisher signs a contract stating the terms of service, and Epic clearly violated those. It's a lost cause.