03-12-2015, 06:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2015, 06:06 AM by RolloTheGreat.)
(03-12-2015, 02:43 AM)SickBeast Wrote:(03-09-2015, 03:55 AM)SteelCrysis Wrote: Exactly. There's no motivation to price gouge. I'm still worried about the negative effects of monopoly, just not in price gouging. People love to forget about AMD's $750 and $1000 CPUs back in the day.I really fear for the future of this forum if you guys are allowed to post nonsense like this without recourse. OF COURSE a monopoly will raise prices and stagnate innovation! Look at what has happened with Intel. They shut down overclocking on all but their most expensive chips (the G3258 was an anomaly). They have also failed to innovate since Sandy Bridge to the point that the A8X CPU in the Ipad Air 2 is as powerful as a mobile i5.
If nVidia does get a monopoly we are all screwed. If you think innovation is slow now just wait until AMD dies.
I don't understand both you and Rollo with your nonsense.
You don't understand because you don't work in the business world, but the logic of it should be intuitive.
NVIDIA exists to provide shareholders with profit, not to give you faster video cards on what you deem a reasonable schedule.
So while they could indeed slow the release of new tech, and it may well be in their best interest to do so in times of zero competition, they can't just keep re-releasing the same stuff. (or even close to it)
They HAVE to give people a reason to buy at a price they will pay. For those of us who don't overclock, the cards don't wear out. So people don't really have any reason to buy new ones if there is no performance bump, and there isn't a big enough market of new buyers to feed the Nv beast.
Their business model is built on people buying a new card every 2 years.
You apparently are laboring under the commonly held delusion that competition somehow drives innovation and overrides supply and demand.