Technology

This is ultimately just punching sideways and down though.

These companies will win when your strategy is to simply shit on other people for existing.

You may not think that is what you're doing but it is. How so? Because while you care about this area of life enough to get into the details, for other people, their areas of care are completely different, and it is unreasonable for you to expect everyone to care about precisely what you care about.

As such, punching down and sideways only serves the purpose of making an environment where only the rich and powerful band together, and the poor (us) routinely infight and chop off our own legs rather than realizing that these megacorps hiring leagues of lobbyists, psychologists, marketers, etc know exactly how to push, and know that exactly the person you are bitching at will almost certainly never see your comment, or will consider it hostile and irrelevant so it wont matter either way.

Like every comment like yours that I have ever seen, I would bet money you didn't quite say what you are claiming to say here, didn't say it in a way that would imply the same thing, and didn't get quite the reaction you are saying you got.

And this is combined with cutting Blackwell production by 40% and exacerbating a market already dominated by scalpers and AI data centers. Everything is getting enshittified, subscription just one component of it.

I've always held out for PCMR but these companies are making it near impossible - or just prohibitively expensive - to be a PC gamer.

Hanlon’s razor applies here. The margins for selling to datacenters are higher for the producers of RAM and GPU’s. The chance that it is some kind of conspiracy is very small.

You will own nothing and be happy.

Gamer Nexus said it best pointing it out that the tech bros want to do to computers what private equity did to the housing market of turning everything into subscriptions.

They can’t even use the usual enshittification excuses, this is just being greedy dicks.

The usual enshitification excuses are companies just being greedy dicks, and more than anything, a lack of regulation enforcement existing to stop companies simply outspending other companies out of business.

I’m guessing they want to sell more computing power to AI bc they make more that way

The excuse is, and has always been, "Because we can". Never think otherwise.

There is little difference between enshitificstion and being greedy dicks.

A shitton is not the amount they are aiming for. All is the goal.

At this point I scowel at any game with higher minimum hardware requirements than fallout 4. Like, come on, did you really need all that shit?

I can't imagine this will make Nvidia much money at all. The vast, vast majority of people aren't playing more than 100 hours of videogames a month but having a tagline that you can play as much as you want is a very attractive offer to a consumer, at least to me.

Yea… 100 hours a month of your life consuming 1 form of media is… a lot.

100hours is quite a bit

Yeah that was basically my thought too. I probably do less than a quarter of that on average, but that’s not really the point. I should be allowed as much time as I want. Not that I use a Nvidia subscription anyway, but still. This makes me mad on behalf of other people.

Oh dear.. I was in hospital a few weeks ago and I’ve been recovering at home. In the last two weeks I’ve manly played three games: 64 hours in the first, 50 hours in the second, and 10 hours in the third (that one was all in one day)

I’d never use a thing like GeForce Now either way, but I’d be boned hahaha

Basically you rent NVIDIA's GPUs, they render the games, stream to you. This way you "save" money by not having to, heyoooo what a surprise, buy cards that have been getting more and more expensive over the years because of reasons that totally have nothing to do with GPU manufacturers.

It's game streaming, except you stream an entire PC.