Quote Originally Posted by Andrew LB View Post
Personally, I'm tired of hearing people complain about how their current favorite GPU or CPU manufacturer should somehow be "given" technology that the other company spent untold time and money to develop.

The free market system is designed to encourage private companies to take risks and break new ground. And when those risks pay off when they field a new product, the system rewards them with more market share and most importantly.... Profits!

What incentive does a company have in order to go spend hard earned capitol only to hand your competitor a free copy of what you just spent all that money to develop?

ATI should have to license out the physics technology from nVidia if they want to utilize it. It's the only fair way to move on.
I quite agree, but that's a slightly different scenario. In this case, the Physx is being run on Nvidia's own GPU's - unless of course, someone else is doing the rendering. While there's likely some valid arguments in the programming/compatibility arena for this decision, it does smack a little of childishness - "You won't use our stuff 100%? Then take THIS - no accelerated Physx for you."

Honestly, given the right titles, I wouldn't be entirely adverse to throwing down ~$100 for a secondary card to get some sweet eye-candy at playable framerates. But dictating what the primary card has to be... meh.