Nvidia Threatens to Become A Monopoly

[Picao84]

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.

Incredible how you see nothing wrong with slowing the release of new tech? Be an nVIDIA fan, but think for yourself as well, please.
And what common delusion about competition driving innovation? Its not a delusion, its a FACT. You are the one spewing delusions about nVIDIA being a "good guy" because it "has to".
Funny how both you and SteelCrysis completely ignored my post. Seems like you do not remember the price gouge nVIDIA did with GTX280 right? The fiasco where they ended up returning money to people who bought it launch. That would not have happened at all without what? Say again? COMPETITION! They only gave money back because ATI launched the successful 4870. You have the perfect example of what happened in front of your eyes and still spew bullshit. Incredible. Worse than this, just religion.