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bigyabaitoday at 5:15 PM4 repliesview on HN

> Nvidia abandons the gaming market

Citation? I've been hearing this from Gamer's Nexus for decades, but Nvidia seems to be fine RAM shortage notwithstanding.


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xg15today at 5:22 PM

I was thinking about the revenue shift as described in articles like this one: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/nvidia-g...

Arguably, Nvidia has a point, probably more than the other companies, because they really are at the heart of the current buildout gold rush. So it's more actual economics for them than the FOMO it feels like for the other companies.

callctoday at 5:31 PM

The last 3 generations of nvidia gpus have been a big middle finger to PC gamers in terms of price and power usage

Gone are the days of affordable graphics accelerators in the $300 to $500 range. Now it’s $1000 to $2000. 400 watts now instead of 100.

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Aurornistoday at 5:41 PM

> I've been hearing this from Gamer's Nexus for decades

I liked the idea of Gamer’s Nexus at first when it was supposed to be a data-first rigorous independent journalism.

Somewhere along the way it turned into a constant grievance and outrage channel. I guess audience capture pays the bills and YouTube Drama is hard to ignore. I haven’t bothered with that channel since they tried to go to war with Linus Tech Tips. I don’t even watch LTT and I certainly don’t want to watch two channels go to YouTube war against each other when I’m just trying to hear how the latest coolers perform or something.

I think a lot of the ultra cynical HN comments about how it’s the end of computing or how gamers have been abandoned are coming from these channels, though.

coldteatoday at 5:29 PM

It's about which market segment gets priority in the company. Doesn't mean they'll stop making gaming cards altogether

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