Cuz without him and Nvidia, we wouldnt have thousand dollar gpus and max spec requirement would reach a cap. Like a “wealth cap” but for hardware. Right?
I could name a particular bacteria Bob. Taking Bob out is not going to cure Tuberculosis.
No. You’re thinking too narrowly.
My graphics card is so damn old that I don’t even remember what it is. Maybe a 1080?
I don’t think anyone’s game concept is being held by back technology at this point; the real block is capitalism’s demand for massive guaranteed returns on every launch which stifles innovation and ties up all the investment capital in bloated sequels and rehashes.
Gaming has been accessible to people on a budget since the invention of dice, chequers , playing cards and probably scratching lines in the dirt.
I’m not sure that I see the problem being one of capitalism here unless someone is monopolising or controlling or restricting the means of production. (Is it about games consoles?) If people want to use large amount of power and computing resources for their hobby, then they’re going to have to compete with other users of these resources.
I’d love to take up diamond polishing as a hobby, but I’m going to stick with pebbles and glass thanks.
Personally, I see a wide diversity of PC games for a wide range of prices, actually a lot more competition and choice than many other industries. The core tools, like programming languages and compilers are fairly available - it’s open to a start up to build or buy higher level tooling as they want.
Maybe there’s issues getting bank loans for smaller developers, but they probably have better options in the last few decades for alternative finance than they had before stuff like crowdfunding.
Frankly, given the level of competition, I’d not want my pension fund or bank gambling on any computer games - though I’d have the same attitude towards pretty much any creative “industry” focussed on pass-times.
Put another way if someone asked my advice on some realistic anti-capitalist policies like bank regulation, directed credit programme, or industrial strategy I don’t think I’d be saying much about video games. If the suggestion was to support open source general purpose software development infrastructure - sure there’d be a strong case, but nothing specific to the leisure/entertainment industry; not for me.
Nah, someone else would be a greedy fuck instead. He’s a symptom of the system, not the cause.
Yeah. If it wasn’t for him, someone else would have bought their shit.
The AI strain on gaming hardware prices is sort of baked into the tech. Graphics cards are good at rendering because they use floating points. AI models that exist also need floating points.
3D gaming is more or less inevitable, LLMs are probably inevitable, demand for better graphics is inevitable. The details may have worked out differently, but the tech and the economics would be 90% the same without any individual contribution.
Gaming has never been more accessible to people on a budget. The indie gaming scene is massive right now.
In the 2000s ATI (bought by AMD) was often releasing higher end cards than Nvidia. Matrix/3dfx were the prior generation and weren’t cheap either.
Love them or hate them, Intel and their decades of integrated graphics are ultimately responsible for there even being a market for affordable GPUs.
It’s kind of the problem with plotting CEO decisions to an individual. Maybe if there weren’t a Jensen Huang nvidia wouldn’t have leaked whatever they did to a chinese spy. But it’s just like when united health was Luigi’d, There was the chilling effect sure but new CEOs in, and everythings back to business as usual.
Bottom line, NVidia’s making a killing, I find it hard to believe that the shareholders would ever tolerate someone who wouldn’t have also sold out to the AI bubble.
