05-04-2004, 03:29 PM
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#18 (permalink)
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Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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Originally posted by kutulu
1)Instead of releasing games that run really well on the average gamers system and super badass on the ubergamer system, they release games that have shitty framerates on average systems. Therefore you have to tone it down on your average system because you don't want to spend $500/yr on vid cards.
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Doom 3 runs on my GeForce 4 TI4200. Half-Life 2 runs on it as well. It was $140 two years ago. You can get them for $80 now. No games that come out eradicate every system except for the super-elite...they just come with graphical settings that can be adjusted. It's a really good idea: those that spend $500 on a videocard get their money's worth by getting better graphics, and those that pay $150 for a videocard get a damn good game with less of a graphical kick. Those that spend more get better graphics, but both get a good videogame.
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Originally posted by kutulu
2) Company A has a new card to debut. It's top of the line and when your sniper rifle is zoomed in on the bad guy, it allows you to see the boogers in his nose, so it's going to it's going to cost about $500. That's a lot of money, so they decided to make three variations, the A1, A2, and A3. The A3 is the one that the bulk of the R&D was focused at and the A2 and A1 versions are stripped down versions, but they still kick ass compared to what you have right now (or do they?). Since they are different, they have to make 3 production lines, 3 different types of packaging, they also had to spend a lot more money in R&D deciding how they different levels would be different and how they'd implement those changes. If they had decided to just make the best version of the card and forget about the two downgraded versions, couldn't they make just as, if not more money?
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There's three versions because gamers want 3 versions. The market has people that want a better videocard than everyone else, and they'll spend $500 to get it. There's also those that want the next best, and those that want a budget videocard. It's a great idea for videocard companies to have 3 versions. One for people that want something that will barely deliver, one for people that want their games to look damn nice, and those that want the best videocard which is above and beyond what people usually see. If consumers want it, producers will make it.
-Lasereth
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