The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?
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#2I'm also curious what this could mean for Nintendo.
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#3More children born?
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#4It remains to be seen to be fair.
But if this does happen it will be in my opinion the start of a slow death of the democratization of tech.
At best it means we're going to be relegated to last tech if even that, as this isn't a case of SAS vs s-ata or u.2 vs m.2, but the very raw tech (chips).
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#5I'm also curious what this could mean for Nintendo.
NVIDIA would still have service contract obligations to fulfil, and would provide support for its existing products for a period of time.
Don’t worry about Nintendo. Their pockets are deep and they are creative enough to pivot. They would retool their stack to support another ARM chip, or another arch entirely.
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#6Is it better to go short on them or buy AMD?
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#7It means people get to enjoy more indie games with good designs, instead of having FOMO for cool graphics without substance.
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#8It means people get to enjoy more indie games with good designs, instead of having FOMO for cool graphics without substance.
It means lots of people will give up the hobby.
Let's be real, the twitch FPS CoD players aren't going to give that up and play a boring life simulator.
This has the potential to harm a lot of businesses from hardware to software companies, and change the lives of millions of people.
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#9It means people get to enjoy more indie games with good designs, instead of having FOMO for cool graphics without substance.
It means lots of people will give up the hobby. Let's be real, the twitch FPS CoD players aren't going to give that up and play a boring life simulator. This has the potential to harm a lot of businesses from hardware to software companies, and change the lives of millions of people.
That doesn't sem very plausible, how many people are driven away from CounterStrike or like League of Legends because the graphics weren't as good as Cyberpunk or whatever?
Theres a LOT of games that compete with AAA-massive-budget games on aggregate like Dwarf Fortress, CS, League, Fortnite, people are still playing arma 2, dayz, rust, etc Rainbow Six: Siege still has adherents and even cash-payout tournaments. EvE: Online, Ultima Online, Runescape, still goin'
These games have like no advertising and are still moneymakers. Eve and UO are like 20 and 30 years old. Heck, Classic WoW!
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#10It means people get to enjoy more indie games with good designs, instead of having FOMO for cool graphics without substance.
It means lots of people will give up the hobby. Let's be real, the twitch FPS CoD players aren't going to give that up and play a boring life simulator. This has the potential to harm a lot of businesses from hardware to software companies, and change the lives of millions of people.
PC gaming will be fine even without 8K 120fps raytracing. It will be fine even if limited to iGPUs. Maybe even better off if it means new titles are actually playable on an average new miniPC.
More realistically I guess we get an AMD/Intel duopoly looking quite similar instead.
It will probably be a bigger blow to people who want to run LLMs at home.