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Why can't the marketing people who come up with this crap pick decent, incrementing product model numbers? There's a "renaissance" of this bullshit in the ente
by pdntspa 4y ago
Why can't the marketing people who come up with this crap pick decent, incrementing product model numbers?
There's a "renaissance" of this bullshit in the entertainment space, too, where apparently these loons think that resetting the numbers is cool. For example, "Doom" (2016) instead of the more sensible "Doom 4", because fuck that game that came out in 1994!
Or how Nvidia simply reset all their product numbers a while ago. My first graphics card was a geforce TI 4200! And now they are back to the 4000s!
- Schroedingersat 4y agoSolution: Release a bunch of reviews of the rtx 6000 and the rtx a6000 against other new cards about 4 hours before embargo/release. Get a few large channels on board and hopefully they won't try it again
- alexvoda 4y agoI would love it if some reviewers had the guts to do this. Unfortunately, it is probably also a way to get your early review sample privilege revoked.
- Spooky23 4y agoI think the Doom thing is different as some of the customers werent eating solid food when the original came out. The NVidia thing is a reflection of them having a hard time segmenting the market. The old “enterprisy engineers” vs “gamers” hasn’t worked for a long time, and they feel they deserve a bigger piece of the action on the server/cloud side.
- bee_rider 4y agoThey have an insatiable lust for higher numbers, that requires going out of sequence. My suggestion: just add another circle for each generation! So now we can be on DOOOOOM, and NVIDIA could have the GTX 10000000000000000000. I guess they'll want to use calculator notation, so like GTX 1E20, wait, dang it, my joke suggestion has become better than their current naming scheme.