Comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2
4 days ago
It is not a question of want. Gaming will exist in some form so I am simply uncertain what you are concerned about.
Can you elaborate a little? What, exactly, is your concern here? That you won't have nvidia as a choice? That AMD will be the only game in town? That gpu market will move from duopoly ( for gaming specifically ) to monopoly? I have little to go on, but I don't really want to put words in your mouth based on minimal post.
I want a local gaming machine that I control.
Not a locked ecosystem console or a streaming service with lag!
I think if nvidia leaves the market for AI, why wouldn’t AMD and intel, with the memory cartel. So DIY market is gone. That kills lots of companies and creators that rely on the gaming market.
It’s a doom spiral for a lot of the industry. If gaming is just PlayStation and switch and iGPUs there is a lot less innovation in pushing graphics.
It will kill the hobby.
There was no DIY market on 8 and 16 bit home computers with fixed hardware, yet bedroom coding (aka indies) not only did thrive, they were the genesis of many AAA publishers, and to this day those restrictions keep the Demoscene alive and recognised as World culture heritage.
PC was largely ignored for gaming, until finally EGA/VGA card, alongside AdLib/Soundblaster, became widespread in enough households to warrant development costs.
You are so quickly accepting a wild assumption -- that all 3 GPU major producers will exit the market. The "memory cartel" bets on people being impatient and COVID has shown that people will just wait out the terrible GPU prices and come back to buy when the prices are reasonable again.
That cartel is imply flying high right now, convinced they got the market by the balls.
They don't. Just give it most of 2026 and you'll see.
Panasonic left the MLCC market and yet you can still buy capacitors.
Interesting. Does nvidia offer control? Last time I checked they arbitrarily updated their drivers to degrade unwelcome use case ( in that case, for crypto ). It sounds to me like the opposite of that.
Separately, do you think they won't try to ingratiate themselves to gamers again once AI market changes?
Do you not think they are part of the cartel anyway ( and the DIY market exists despite that )?
<< So DIY market is gone.
How? One use case is gone. Granted, not a small one and one with an odd type of.. fervor, but relatively small nonetheless. At best, DIY market shifts to local inference machines and whatnot. Unless you specifically refer to gaming market..
<< That kills lots of companies and creators that rely on the gaming market.
Markets change all the time. EA is king of the mountain. EA is filing for bankruptcy. Circle of life.
Edit: ALso, upon some additional consideration and in the spirit of christmas, fuck the streamers ( aka creators ). With very, very limited exceptions, they actively drive what is mostly wrong with gaming these days. Fuck em. And that is before we get to the general retardation they contribute to.
<< It’s a doom spiral for a lot of the industry.
How? For AAA? Good. Fuck em. We have been here before and were all better for it.
<< If gaming is just PlayStation and switch and iGPUs there is a lot less innovation in pushing graphics.
Am I reading it right? AMD and Intel is just for consoles?
<< It will kill the hobby.
It is an assertion without any evidence OR a logical cause and effect.
So far, I am not buying it.
As a parent I very much agree about the streamers tbh.
Firmly in old-guy “this content should not exist” camp
Who cares about "innovation in pushing graphics"? It's arguable that video game graphics reached 'good enough' a couple of console generations ago. Maybe as early as seventh gen.