Quote Originally Posted by bamtan2 View Post
you don't remember anything. I hope nobody listened to you and got any wrong ideas.

if you want to remember something, remember this: 3dfx went bankrupt because it failed to deliver competitive products for multiple product cycles in a row. failure to execute. period.

3dfx was the first company to say you should be playing at 60fps, not 30fps.


They executed just their strategy just fine. It was the wrong way for them to go, what they did was cling their proprietary glide and did not want to fully support standards like opengl. Yes they failed to compete with Nvidia, who supported opengl. Nvidia is doing this with Cuda and physX. On the hardware side they clung old tech and just started adding more chips to it. It's not a failure to execute it was a failure to innovate and meet customer's demands.

As for the whole 30/60 fps thing ... The details don't matter much anymore they're dead.