@skipper1993 I guess I'm going to leave an open invite to anyone wanting a Gaming PC, private message me, we'll design it, i'll build and have it shipped to you for 10% profit on parts :)
Well from my perspective as a small business owner, I'd say Nvidia is right to drop it.
They mentioned the price Sony was willing to pay. Sounds like Sony is trying to cut costs as much as possible, so Nvidia wasn't going to be able to make top dollar on their products.
Also, if I've got the man power for 5 major companies, and one more show's up, I've got to put 20% more work onto my employees. If they can't handle the work load, then I risk putting out bad merchandise and losing one or more of those companies through the degradation.
Before you say,"Hire 20% more people," that isn't an option. The employees they have are top of the line, best there are. Their engineers are pushing boundaries every day like a child molester. So, to find even 10% more people that can do the job RIGHT, is going to cut into ALL that profit that they MAY have been able to make. They'd be making the PS4 chip for a decade....So they've got to look to the future.
As for Microsoft parallel, it isn't quite fair to match them. In the scale of things Microsoft has enough money to buy AMD and Nvidia.
Nvidia Net worth is 581Mil
Microsoft's is 230 BILLION Mr. Powers
P.S. Nvidia makes thousands of each video card they market, they would have to make a few million cards for the PS4.
@Zero_resistance Well from my perspective as a small business owner, I'd say Nvidia is right to drop it.
They mentioned the price Sony was willing to pay. Sounds like Sony is trying to cut costs as much as possible, so Nvidia wasn't going to be able to make top dollar on their products.
Also, if I've got the man power for 5 major companies, and one more show's up, I've got to put 20% more work onto my employees. If they can't handle the work load, then I risk putting out bad merchandise and losing one or more of those companies through the degradation.
Before you say,"Hire 20% more people," that isn't an option. The employees they have are top of the line, best there are. Their engineers are pushing boundaries every day like a child molester. So, to find even 10% more people that can do the job RIGHT, is going to cut into ALL that profit that they MAY have been able to make. They'd be making the PS4 chip for a decade....So they've got to look to the future.
As for Microsoft parallel, it isn't quite fair to match them. In the scale of things Microsoft has enough money to buy AMD and Nvidia.
My i7 920 is a few years old now, and it's doing fine OCd. Vid card was a 260 and was starting to upset me, so after a few years with the 260 I upgraded to a 580. That won't need replacing for a few years at least. I make one investment every other year or so and go in a circle through my case. mobo/cpu->gpu->ram->cpu(without mobo)->gpu->ssd->wait some more->mobo/cpu->etc.
The trick with being a pc owner is being able to upgrade in intervals. You don't just buy a whole computer for gaming. To anyone thinking of building this, it's a good investment. Keep in mind that next year, the i7 3600K and etc's will be a lot cheaper; so you upgrade that one item. The next year you get a new video card, the next year a new mothorboard(newest socket for your cpu preference) and a cpu to match it while you wait for the stronger same-socket ones to get cheaper. For 100-200 dollars a year you can keep a stellar rig that's always up to date.
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