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Squilliam on 07 December 2010
zarx said:
Squilliam said:

So I take it the developers have finally realised that the sweet spot to target isn't the $300-600 high end enthusiast but the $60-200 mainstream gamer level. Thats fine by me, they should have been doing that anyway but at least they've finally come to their senses.


well the smaller devs have because most can't afford to push tech that much and the big publishers just don't care so they don't put the effort in lol, wich means that yea the sweet spot has settled at the mid teir cards.

It will be interesting to see if this changes the way 2 GPU companies develop cards and they stop trying to push high end tech and focus more on consumer friendly levels, I mean ATI for the last couple have kinda been doing that focusing on smaller efficient dies and launching their new generation with mid range cards as well as high end (HD57**) instead of what Nvidia do which is push out the biggest possible die for the enthusiasts first (GTX480/470) and pushing out high mid range cards later (460/450) this seems to have payed off for ATI. So maybe they will both focus more on getting the latest tech into the hands of the majority as soon as possible in the future I hope so lol.

I can't really say. You won't see any results for about 3 years after they decide to change direction. I still think the sweet spot ~250mm^2 die sizes are a little too large and ideally I would like to see the typical graphics chip reduced to around 180-200 for the enthusiast level in order to make them relevant to both desktops and laptops. That way the laptops won't get left behind as they are probably becoming the primary game platform on PCs in the western world at the very least.



Tease.