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   Nvidia though...

   

   DittoBox, Oct 5th, 2006 @ 9:40am

   
   

   To be fair, a sizable portion of the nvidia marketshare is making visual effects for movies and TV, making CAD drawings, architectural renderings, CAID and CADD and doing hardware rendering with their nvidia hardware...many possibilities with Quadro.

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   next stop... PORN!

   

   chris (profile), Oct 5th, 2006 @ 10:22am

   
   

   gaming is big money, business loves them some big money, so i am not all that surprised.
   
   now, when big tech companies start getting in to porn, that's when i will be surprised.

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   Something new

   

   Republican Gun, Oct 5th, 2006 @ 12:00pm

   
   

   Something new in the gaming world needs to be invented. Something like what Id did back in the day with thier 3D engine. Lately everything seems to be the same, a 3d enviroment with textures and sprites. I'm bored...guess I'll just play CS again.

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 5th, 2006 @ 1:43pm

   
   

   its kinda hard to go anywhere new since you cant really go to 4d... since there isent one(that we know of =P) the only thing game developers can really do is move to better grafix and different gameplay, like when i had a sega gennius (like 16 bit grafix i think) we all thought it was the best grafix ever and now you look at it and its all blocky... sameway with everyother older game compared to a new one...
   
   also i think theres way to many wwII games... theres a few that a great(cod 1&2, bf42, and some of the MOH's) but all the other ones suck... we just need another game that combines all the different game types ie its a shooter rpg and rts, might be hard to push a game like that though...

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   orgasm for

   

   Anonymous Coward, Oct 5th, 2006 @ 2:58pm

   
   

   I would orgasm for a game that combined Tribes 2 with an MMORPG. I find myself watching videos of Tribes instead of playing WOW and the such.

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   where's the innovation/new business model tall....

   

   Tyshaun, Oct 5th, 2006 @ 3:04pm

   
   

   I'm a little disappointed with techDirt today. Seems like this would have been a perfect opportunity to talk about how the big tech firms need to innovate and need new business models and such, but nothing except a half-hearted pat on the back to Microsoft for doing what it always does, lead the marketspace (not necessarily in quality).
   
   As per video games, I think there is still much to be done. When you are playing a video game and can't tell the difference between it and a HD television movie, we've pretty much hit the technological limit. There are still serious advances to be had in game AI, graphics depth, and general playability.
   
   Finally, for years there have been rumors that big business have used subsidiaries to invest and hold controlling interest in porn. Also, the success and scale of companies like Playboy, Hustler, and others are examples of big business and porn being "in bed together" so to speak.

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   Well said

   

   Wizard Prang, Oct 6th, 2006 @ 8:29am

   
   

   I built an "old-skool" retro gaming rig (700MHz) for my old Win98 games (Freespace 2, Flight sims, Battlezone II, Conquest: Frontier Wars etc).
   
   I spend more game time on this machine than on my "top-end" (2.4GHz) gaming rig.

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