I guess my point is that I think of the Nintendo dynamic more charitably than I think of independent large game studios making platform exclusive titles just because some business deal was struck, simply because the latter creates the impression of vertical integration when there is in fact none.

I mean, yeah, but at the same time, a Nintendo game being a Nintendo exclusive product doesn’t seem that weird to me. If it was an external studio, sure. But it’s the same company. I agree that it’s annoying, but I don’t think it’s an unreasonable tactic if you control the vertical and you actually DO build good hardware and software that play well together, and you want to leverage the multiplicative effect there.

That sounds like a rad concept for a game. I’d be interested in it.

lol ok, but HP is still a bag of dicks

People like to hate EA because it gives them a sense of pride and accomplishment

That really does sound interesting

Fuck I really gotta just pony up and get one don’t I 😂

They’re legit just shipping stuff that failed QC. It’s kinda wild.

Can I have some shoes?

I mean, if you’re copper modding and you’re not masking everything else off with captan, you shouldn’t be copper modding.

Lmao wouldn’t it have been great if they made this argument 20 or so years ago?

I mean… I jumped on a 3080FE several years ago near release time because

• Rona time
• it was an absurd amount of generational uplift - as in, I’m not sure we’ll ever see that sort of gen-over-gen performance gain again

Lmao they fucking WHAT

They made another Dragon Age?

Precisely this. Nvidia has crawled too far up their own asshole, drank a pint too many of their own marketing snake oil, and made a top-tier flagship product that nobody fucking cares about.

For real, the “if” in that sentence could reasonably win an Olympic powerlifting competition

When they say “homegrown” they mean “home grown”

Tbh I think a big part of the reason they’re targeting gelsinger is because he’s not from the financial boys club.

That said, I still don’t have a much of sympathy for him at all. He handled the lithography fiasco hilariously poorly, amongst many other things, and there’s no way his salary (or the salaries of the vast majority of CEOs in general) are justified

woah, CEOs get wings here? Weird.

You’ve triggered my trap card: being kinkshamed is my kink

Man, GN is legitimately a pillar of investigative journalism. They’ve broken, like, a LOT of (tech-oriented) corporate fuckery stories, and they ALWAYS bring receipts.

Oh neat, demand is slipping right before a bunch of tariffs are going to be slapped on, making them expensive again 🤦‍♂️

Counterpoint: you’re Americanese and you’re aware there’s gonna be tariffs and shit

Fascinating documentary that slipped through a wormhole from the future

…what?

Most of the companies you’re mentioning do not have their own chip foundries. The only - and I do mean only - companies that have working lithography lines to support bleeding edge chips at massive scale are Samsung, TSMC, and Intel. Several other companies are investing in eventually gaining that capability, but right now, thats it. And these things take a LONG time to spin up and iron out the issues.

TL;DR: the problem is how few companies actually MAKE the chips, not how many companies DESIGN them.

lol no

They’d be buying them for their chip foundries. Apple doesn’t want to have to contract out their chip production. Their whole MO is vertical integration - acquiring their own chip lithography and manufacturing lines would be a HUGE step in that direction.

Hey gelsinger, how about stop doing all those stock buybacks, you fucking tool

Lmao it’s kinda hilarious, because all the positive PR in the world isn’t going to fix the fact that they’re a shit company with a shit product that only makes products it’s used on worse. Do as much investor spin as you want - that fact will never change, and you’ll still be hated.

Tbh, I’m going to break my usual rule and preorder it, if for no other reason than to support the devs who put this together in spite of their country being invaded by Russia for well over two years

…after knowing for damn sure it was a serious issue in two successive process generations.

There is no way this happened without a LOT of people knowing EXACTLY what was happening, and covering it up. The DoJ should really kick off an investigation into the situation, because it’s pretty obvious there was malfeasance at multiple levels. That, or their leadership and QC processes are both so categorically inept that one could argue the company should be straight up nationalized as a critical strategic asset.

Lmao for real… way to make me feel old 🥲

I had an old T60p - yeah, Core 2 Duo baybeeeee. Iirc that was one of the last models that were made under IBM before Lenovo bought the Thinkpad brand. Since then, my primary personal laptop has ALWAYS been a thinkpad, simply because the keyboard IS that good. Seriously, I really do not think that any other laptop line offers a better keyboard, or is so consistently at the top of the pack.

Note: I’m talking specifically about Thinkpads, and particularly the X and T lines. Non-thinkpads are much more of a roll of the dice.

I mean I’ll buy their shit from time to time, but not unless it’s basically on firesale on steam

It really does beggar belief. They used to be THE one to beat. Now they’re hemorrhaging money and reputation, and figuring out how to deal with a multi-generational lithography deficiency - not to mention, the implications that that problem has on their lack of testing rigor, improper QC reporting processes, or both.

So, thank you, Finance and MBA assholes, for driving a titan of American industry into the ground, I guess. I wish you’d all get fired, but you won’t, I’m sure.

I mean, I rotate between games, movies, and series. But then again I’m a millennial on the wrong side of 35, so get off my lawn, you goddamn hooligans

Well, I blame your mother.