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JEMC said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Coreteks also explains how this will backfire on Jensen (and a backhand critique of the entire industry while he's at it):

Also (unless you want to count showing off that 5060 background) not a single mention to gaming during the entire keynote!

NVidia seriously dun fucked it up this time!

Jensen is so out of his mind that he has said this:

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'PC gaming is now 30 years old,' and I'm here to say 'um, actually'
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-in-keynote-pc-gaming-is-now-30-years-old-and-im-here-to-say-um-actually/
No one likes the 'um, actually' guy. Whatever momentary high an um-actually-arsehole gets from jumping on a technicality in an off-the-cuff remark is either completely drowned out, or worse, strengthened by the resulting collective groan. Unfortunately, today, I'm going to be the 'um, actually' guy. My target? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang—this can only end well for me!

During Nvidia's live keynote at Computex 2025, Huang reflected on the success of GeForce and its position within the business today. On stage, Huang said that though the company owes a lot of its success to GeForce specifically, "our keynote is 90% not GeForce. But it's not because we don't love GeForce." He then added, "GeForce RTX 50-series just had its most successful launch ever, the fastest launch in our history. And PC gaming is now 30 years old—so that tells you something about how incredible GeForce is."

So, what's wrong with that? Well, setting aside the various issues that left much to be desired about the 50-series launch, it's the simple fact that PC gaming easily pre-dates Nvidia's GeForce product line. To begin at the beginning, the GeForce 256 debuted in October 1999 and is largely credited with introducing many PC gamers to the modern concept of a Graphics Processing Unit.

id Software and Wolfenstein3D are older than Nvidia, and there's the whole 2D and the text based games long before that. So yeah, Jensen is "not in his right mind"

Bofferbrauer2 said:

This gets me thinking, due to the fact that NVidia withhold drivers for the 5060, will 9060 reviews now come before those of the 5060?

I'm not as pessimistic as Coreteks, but I can see Nvidia using the launch of the 5060, which they knew would be a bad received product, to test the waters in how far they can push things before they go too far. And I want to believe that they've gone so far that it has exploded in their faces.

As for your second point, no, we won't get reviews of the 9060 XT before review so for the 5060. For once, most reviewers will still be at Computex tomorrow when the cards are unvelied, so they won't be able to test them. Sure, AMD could have send samples and drivers a month ago to allow them to test the cards with time, but it hasn't happened because we havem had a single leak, and we always get lots of those.

Also, some proper review sites haven't gone to Computex and are starting to post their 5060 reviews, like Guru3D (it has a short selection of games): https://www.guru3d.com/review/geforce-rtx-5060-8gb-review/ or the ongoing PCGamer one (if the F1 24 video is bad, the one with DA: The Veilguard at 1440p with DLSS-Quality and x4 MFG is... wow)

The thing is, I'm fairly sure NVidia chose Computex as launch window because this would further delay the reviews for several outlets, giving them more time to get away with it. All while the AMD 9060 reviews may well have been done in advance before Computex (it's not like they had any 5060 to test alongside it...) so on several sites, I expect the 9060 reviews to launch before the 5060 reviews.

This German Youtuber also said about as much, believing that Nvidia chose the date specifically to bury it under all the other tech news from Computex so reviews of the 5060 would get minimal exposure.