Granted it's only a rumour from Spong, but if something like this were to come to pass it would completely destroy the wonderful, non-proprietary, way in which PC gaming is enjoyed by the masses. Trying to emulate the worst aspect of console gaming (i.e. that of proprietary hardware) would seriously damage the PC as a platform for games - imagine having to buy two high-end graphics cards if you wanted to to play two new games!
In doing this nVidia (and ATI if they follow suit) could create a huge divide between gamers - we'd have to buy two different cards (which have to be updated every year and a half or so), so hypothetically we could end up with two completely different markets for gaming on PC's. In essence, we'll end up having to buy into a further two formats to get the most out of our PC gaming (imagine if nVidia got Half Life and ATI got Quake!), meaning we'd have to spend twice as much as we do now.
Preposterious, shocking, damaging and preposterious! I wonder if PC gamers will actually stand for something like this? Would you? I find this terrifically rediculous and if soemthing like this came to pass, I'd stop playing new PC games, because there's no way I'd be able to afford to keep up.
Any thoughts on this? Wether it's true or not, I think the topic stands as an excellent point of debate.
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