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Pemalite said:

Surprised at the Australian numbers in comparison to the larger countries like the UK, France, Russia and Germany who have multiple larger populations.

The USA is selling roughly 1 copy per 693 people, Australia is selling one copy per 321 people.
Australia the biggest consumers of video games per capita, confirmed? :P


Well Australia numbers are probably all of Australasia which helps a bit also PC gaming is probably a bigger share

Also Australia generally has a slightly greater preportian of PC gamers

than the USA

Surprised UK isn't higher tho



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NVIDIA has been spilling some beans lately. First they confirmed the existence of a Microsoft MSFT +0.52% Surface RT follow up, for which they’re handling processing duties (presumably a Tegra 4). Now, the company has given PC gamers a heaping helping of hope by flat-out stating that Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V will release for PC this fall.

The reveal occurred during an earnings call (transcribed by Seeking Alpha and spotted by Crave Online) hosted by Chris Evenden, NVIDIA’s Senior Director of Investor Relations. Evenden was outlining the changes in the PC market — changes which PC gamers are affecting — before he explained that the demographic is “preparing their systems for a strong roster of games coming this fall, including blockbuster franchises, such as Call of Duty: Ghosts, Grand Theft Auto V and Assassin’s Creed IV.”

For Struggling PC Market, It's PC Gamers To The Rescue Jason Evangelho Contributor

You can rest assured that isn’t a random trio of titles. NVIDIA is working directly with Ubisoft developers to optimize Assassin’s Creed IV, and past Call of Duty partnerships exist between Activision and NVIDIA. Maybe we’ll see the game bundled with an existing GeForce GTX graphics card?

Perhaps NVIDIA even has a hard release date for GTA V under their hat, but the “fall” window is still reassuring. The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions land on September 17, meaning PC users may not have to wait long for what they know will be the superior version of the game.

In the past, Rockstar Games has been slow to adopt PC ports of their popular titles, and in some cases — like Red Dead Redemption — those ports never materialized. With such a high profile release, anticipated by a burgeoning PC gaming audience, Grand Theft Auto fans took to Change.org recently to petition Rockstar to release a PC version of GTA V. The petition currently has 314,000 signatures. If NVIDIA’s words ring true, that petition won’t be necessary.

This information comes just days before Rockstar is poised to unveil the details of GTA V’s multiplayer component. I’ve reached out to both Rockstar and NVIDIA for any further clarification.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/08/12/nvidia-claims-grand-theft-auto-v-coming-to-pc-this-fall/



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GTA V coming to PC is a known secret, and I doubt they will make the same mistake that was not launching RDR on PC.

It's even more likely after launching Max Payne 3 on PC too, and only a couple of weeks after the console versions.

(Off-Topic: That PC is a SilverStone's Fortress FT03, right?)



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zarx said:

NVIDIA has been spilling some beans lately. First they confirmed the existence of a Microsoft MSFT +0.52% Surface RT follow up, for which they’re handling processing duties (presumably a Tegra 4). 

Since Tegra contributed to the increased power consumption, weight and low performance of RT #1, and the market utterly rejected it, why the fuck would you go back to them?



Soleron said:
zarx said:

NVIDIA has been spilling some beans lately. First they confirmed the existence of a Microsoft MSFT +0.52% Surface RT follow up, for which they’re handling processing duties (presumably a Tegra 4). 

Since Tegra contributed to the increased power consumption, weight and low performance of RT #1, and the market utterly rejected it, why the fuck would you go back to them?


The Tegra 4 is a massive improvement over Tegra 3.
When RT launched, Tegra 3 was nothing special, it was as you said Power Hungry and Slow, Tegra 4 mostly fixes that.

Besides the main issue with RT was price and marketing if they can fix that, then they might have a winner.
Although personally, I wish Microsoft went with a low-power Atom chip and used used Intels Binary Translation for ARM based Apps.



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Pemalite said:

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The Tegra 4 is a massive improvement over Tegra 3.
When RT launched, Tegra 3 was nothing special, it was as you said Power Hungry and Slow, Tegra 4 mostly fixes that.

Besides the main issue with RT was price and marketing if they can fix that, then they might have a winner.
Although personally, I wish Microsoft went with a low-power Atom chip and used used Intels Binary Translation for ARM based Apps.

We have no idea about Tegra 4's perf/watt ratio. Is it not fair to assume it's as broken as the last three?



Soleron said:

We have no idea about Tegra 4's perf/watt ratio. Is it not fair to assume it's as broken as the last three?


We have some idea as it's been debuted in nVidia's shield. :)



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Pemalite said:
Soleron said:

We have no idea about Tegra 4's perf/watt ratio. Is it not fair to assume it's as broken as the last three?


We have some idea as it's been debuted in nVidia's shield. :)

Which has a large battery and active cooling. Not realistic conditions for the products Nvidia actually wants it in.

If it was only performance that mattered I'm sure you could put a desktop CPU in there.



Seems like...

“Please note, during our Thursday’s earnings call, our investor relations team provided a list of important games that gamers are looking forward to on PC this fall, and included Grand Theft Auto V on that list. This statement was made with the intent of expressing enthusiasm for the games industry in general, and was not intended to represent specific knowledge possessed by NVIDIA. NVIDIA does not have information on any possible PC version release of Grand Theft Auto or its availability. We deeply regret the error.”

Nvidia is drunk.



ethomaz said:

Seems like...

“Please note, during our Thursday’s earnings call, our investor relations team provided a list of important games that gamers are looking forward to on PC this fall, and included Grand Theft Auto V on that list. This statement was made with the intent of expressing enthusiasm for the games industry in general, and was not intended to represent specific knowledge possessed by NVIDIA. NVIDIA does not have information on any possible PC version release of Grand Theft Auto or its availability. We deeply regret the error.”

Nvidia is drunk.

I guess Rockstar weren't too happy about them breaking NDA lol, tho their own employees have leaked it a few times already

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/GTA-V-PC-Version-Evidence-Emerges-51932.html

http://rockstarnexus.com/article/60/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-appears-in-Social-Club-files-on-PC

Not to mention the fact that they have been hiring for PC ports of their upcoming titles, and numerous retailers listing it

I wonder why they don't just announce it already, but then again they have alwayse danced to their own tune.



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