I wonder if those people spending so much on an on-line game will feel they have got their money’s worth when one day the company shuts down and their digital purchases disappear forever.

Other Youtubers are also doing videos about nVidia’s business practices and/or its handling of the 5060 launch recently.

Paul’s Hardware: Lies and Manipulation: NVIDIA Doesn’t Give a F**k.

Daniel Owen: Nvidia is handpicking who can publish day 1 RTX 5060 reviews

Hardware Unboxed: Don’t Buy The RTX 5060

der8auer EN: Chatting with GN-Steve on “How Nvidia Ruins Everything”

Videocardz also has an article on this: NVIDIA grants RTX 5060 drivers access to media willing to publish ‘previews’

I do not have info like that, just lamenting that manufacturers (not just AMD) are raising prices of their tiers. The GTX 1070 launched in 2016 for USD 379, GTX 1070 Ti in 2017 for 399. Adjusted for inflation, they are $506 & $522 in 2025 dollars, so expecting there are still some room for reduction, even if manufacturing costs might have risen quicker than inflation, for the $599 price is not unreasonable IMHO.

It is sad when we have to celebrate $599 as “AMD not being greedy”.

A driver allows games to interface with the graphics hardware, enabling accelerated performance for example. This “app” provides additional functionality on top of that (I don’t know what, but GeForce Experience it replaces provided things like recording gameplay videos etc.) which is not strictly required and, it seems, hurts gaming performance.

As for getting the latest drivers, you can do it manually by going to nVidia’s website and download them, or rely on Windows update to give you reasonably recent drivers.

Also, the button layout on switch controllers is different (A & B is swapped compared to XBox). This mostly matters on emulators, although you can remap the buttons, it can get confusing that they don’t match the games’ instructions on screen.

I like that the publisher sell on GOG and they update the same time as steam too.