Quote Originally Posted by Katanai View Post
But what if, let's say, a new ATI driver or card breaks this compatibility. What should Nvidia do then? Invest money and time to fix something their main competitor broke? Why should they do that?
Isn't that what tons and tons of hardware companies do everyday? Intel/AMD/Microsoft changes some goofy crap and your soundcard don't work. It the soundcard companies responsibility to fix it. Customer service.


Quote Originally Posted by Katanai View Post
If Nvidia would allow right now, through a new driver physx to work with ATI cards they would instantly loose sales as people would upgrade to ATI cards and not Nvidia. I don't know how many people are held back on the green team by physx but if it's only one guy, in Korea somewhere, that would buy a 5870 instead of a GTX470 and keep his 8800GT for physx, they would loose a couple of hundred dollars to ATI. Why would they do that? Aren't you asking much of them here?
Instantly lose sales? Most of the people who use a dedicated physx card are enthusiast. They are somewhat tech literate. Plus Nvidia was how many months late to market with DX11? You can't blame people for jumping ship. Actually I would argue they are killing sales right now. They are putting a real bitter taste in a whole bunch of mouths right now. There was NO disclosure that physx required a nvidia card as display to function properly. That alone probably warrants a class action anti-trust lawsuit.


Nvidia's biggest problem is they wanna be like Apple. They want everything to be closed. IMO, if they would just open SLI up to all platforms they could sell more cards. The problem is their Apple business model makes them want a chipset license to close the market again and run a Monopoly per se. I owned a 680i. That board was built so generic and cost so much. Their margins must have been huge during the "good" years. The problem is ATI is competitive now. The world has changed in discrete graphics.


FWIW, I own both cards and like both. I enjoy benching nvidia more, and the gaming experience on ATI. I just think nvidia is a bs company, but their products are good.