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Gamers are already crucifying Nvidia. Nvidia is leaving billions on the table. I feel like they could win gamers back with that cash.
by cwhiz 6y ago
Gamers are already crucifying Nvidia. Nvidia is leaving billions on the table. I feel like they could win gamers back with that cash.
- falcolas 6y agoPersonally, I have absolutely zero faith that any additional revenue would go towards improving their products or availability. It would go to their shareholders; NVidia (Intel) treats its customers like consumers. If their prices aren't responding to supply/demand now, they weren't before either. The price of a NVidia GPU isn't set by market forces; never has been.
- formerly_proven 6y ago> NVidia (Intel) treats its customers like consumers. nVidia's customers are literally consumers.
- malwrar 6y agoThose words aren’t synonymous in denotation—who wants to be called a consumer? I think the term customer implies respect for those you do business with rather than viewing people who buy your product as numbers on a spreadsheet.
- sokoloff 6y agoI am a consumer; it bothers me exactly zero as it’s literally and figuratively true. “Treat like transactions” or “treat like cash flows” or “treat like wallets” would give me the pejorative meaning presumably intended.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoThese are luxury items, where 95% of people will be using to play AAA video games at nice but but pretty extravagant 144hz 1440p/4K or as space heaters. Its the very definition of a consumer
- ravi-delia 6y agoGiven the spike in demand right now, traditional supply and demand would suggest raising prices and using the money to produce more chips, which in the end would net more money and bring the price down. The reason that won't happen has more to do with the feasibility (or lack thereof) of scaling production of GPUs by throwing money at it and the transient nature of the spike than Nvidia being helmed by a shadowy cabal that responds to neither their own incentives nor the market.
- imtringued 6y agoThis one cycle might not be enough to fund more production but if your business keeps running into these shortage cycles then given enough cycles it would become profitable to put more money into production. This isn't the first time it happened.
- ravi-delia 6y agoOf course it's not the first spike, but adding enough capacity to cover every spike in the future would mean far larger production than is needed for the vast majority of the time.
- bombcar 6y agoHell, raise prices and then rebate back if their drivers see you just running normal games and crap. Win/win.
- salawat 6y agoNope. You're still enshrining post facto control mechanisms by which the manufacturer controls what you do with the hardware after you recieve it. Why is it so hard for businesses to just sell things? Why must they encroach? I'm not even a miner, but I'm not inviting anyone into my system to make a judgement call on whether my use of something I paid for is consistent with what they want. They sold it. They should not only have to part with the drivers, but with any semblance of software enforced binning too.
- bombcar 6y agoBecause the “gamer” customers will still be there after Bitcoin crashes and it makes sense to not piss your long term customers off to please the short term ones. At least that’s the argument. We’ll see how it plays out.