My 3080 will be the last NVIDIA card I own. Especially with the driver situation on Linux.
Sky-high RAM and GPU prices are going to crush game studios.
It’ll also push users toward cloud computing—locked-in subscriptions sold as “convenience.” Most people reading this won’t fall for it, but the wider market will. A few influencers saying it’s good is all it takes.
Start cheap, get people dependent, then hike prices. It works because critical thinking isn’t the norm.
Why on earth would it hurt the studios? Graphic fidelity hasn’t increased since the new consoles came out over 5 years ago.
Consumers not upgrading hardware would if anything save them money by reducing expectations they outdo their previous games.
Why on earth would it hurt the studios? Graphic fidelity hasn’t increased since the new consoles came out over 5 years ago.
Consumers not upgrading hardware would if anything save them money by reducing expectations they outdo their previous games.
Skill issue. It could be absolutely incredible for quite a few indie games. Make a good game rather than a graphically demanding one.
If it helps the 9070xt has been ripping through mhWilds
“Nvidia has reportedly cancelled its OPP, a program intended to incentivise AIBs to sell its cards at MSRP.”
Ah, I see. Nvidia is no longer down with OPP.
I’m glad I bought a 2070 super back when they were new and affordable, but Nvidia is never getting another penny from me. I hope, when the AI-bubble inevitably pops, they get forced into bankruptcy.
Even without Nvidia openly shitting on consumers I wouldn’t buy from them again.
There’s also the dangerously badly designed 12VHPWR connector, selling frame generation as a performance gain, lackluster Linux support, the 4080 having so many known potential compatibility issues that diagnosing a manufacturing defect took me two damn weeks… Honestly, I haven’t seen much quality work from them in the last years.
You mean the arson connector? Shout out to dawid
I probably won’t buy any Nvidia card again too (but never say never). You never want to (yes I contradicted myself right after the previous sentence… sigh) have less competition. I hope Nvidia loses its market leader position and operates head to head with AMD and Intel. BTW this is a similar reasoning as to why I don’t want Xbox to go away from console market, regardless of what you or I think about the company.
Largest company in the world. They aren’t going bankrupt in our lifetime, bubble or no.
Enron was #7 before they collapsed. Nvidia will be the hardest hit when the AI bubble pops
nvidia is the one selling shovels
And their entire value is based on them having committed all their future shovels for the next 8 years. So what happens when all those contracts are cancelled because the buyers are bankrupt?
not saying the stock price won’t plummit, just that nvidia won’t be the one holding bags when the dust settles
Nvidia might be the only company not losing a dime after the bubble pops.
The ones selling AI (GPT, Grok, Google, MS) are losing hundreds of billions but companies like Google and MS have lots of money to burn. GPT and Grok don’t.
That assumes prices will eventually fall. I think that’s more likely after the bubble pops, yes, but wealth concentration and corporate AI concentration, combined with government subsidy if they are too big to fail, could work together to permanently inflate prices.
In the worst outcome, you won’t have to boycott them because consumer computing will have effectively died from ever-rising prices. In that future, the only hardware you’ll be able to afford is a thin-client (let’s be extra grim, subsidized by ads) that almost fully runs on corporate-owned cloud compute.
At best we’re probably in for at least 1-2 years of rising GPU, CPU, RAM, SSD and HDD prices while AI consumes everything.
I mean given the past couple of card launches, especially with this generation, how much would actually be affected.
