Video Card Network Effect

Posted Dec 13, 2007 4:48 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
In reply to: Video Card Network Effect by zlynx
Parent article: Specifying codecs for the web

More gamers buy the Nvidia card, leading to game writers optimizing for it ...

Well, it's not that simple. NVidia is also publishing very elaborate toolkits to analyze and debug performance with their drivers/hardware. Naturally game developers will optimize for nVidia because it's so much easier to do.