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GeForce Partner Program

Hasnt this been brought up before under the 'way its meant to be played' monkier? I remember a large backlash at one point that companies were intentionally sabotaging AMD performance in nV games a few years ago perhaps? This sounds VERY familiar, and now is expanded to game bundles and rebates among other things? Ho-boy...

Not to mention Intel got fined up the wazoo for exactly the same practices that nV is slated to perform under GPP? :doh:

Intentionally optimizing/giving benefits for a particular subset of hardware is dumb. Could you imagine if RAM companies started pulling this shit, and what the outcry would be? Or specific SSD manufacturers?
 
Sagath said:
Intentionally optimizing/giving benefits for a particular subset of hardware is dumb. Could you imagine if RAM companies started pulling this shit, and what the outcry would be? Or specific SSD manufacturers?
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I don't see that in the story, but here is what the folks at Guru 3D have said is in the agreement:

However, here’s where certain tactics come into play if a company does not sign up for the program, they will miss out on things like the following:

High-effort engineering engagements
Early tech engagement
Launch partner status
Game bundling
Sales rebate programs
Social media and PR support
Marketing reports
Marketing Development Funds (MDF)

This is about what support a partner gets from NVidia, not about making exclusive games. At least that is what I get from the stories. If someone partners with them, to the exclusion of other chip manufacturers, then NVidia will provide the list of services above.
 
Dwayne said:
Another article on the subject:

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia’s-new-geforce-partner-program-under-criticism.html

Funny quote from the end of this one: "And also let me throw in one more thing that has been playing in my head while writing this. As a bit of a paradox and food for thoughts; what about the AMD exclusivity with XFX & Sapphire? "
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I strongly suspect the "exclusivity" of those particular manufacturers is a choice they've made themselves as opposed to something that's been forced on them by AMD. It could also be argued that Sapphire has always been "the" official manufacturer of ATI/AMD products in everything but name.
 
sswilson said:
I strongly suspect the "exclusivity" of those particular manufacturers is a choice they've made themselves as opposed to something that's been forced on them by AMD. It could also be argued that Sapphire has always been "the" official manufacturer of ATI/AMD products in everything but name.
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I don't see the issue. NVidia is telling manufacturers that if they exclusively make NVidia products they will gain access to a list of benefits that they would not get if they make AMD and Intel graphics cards. No one is being forced to partner. And they are not excluding companies, so if ASUS continues to make AMD and NVidia cards then ASUS will not gain the extras. They probably don't need the extras, but there they are if they want them.
 
Dwayne said:
I don't see the issue. NVidia is telling manufacturers that if they exclusively make NVidia products they will gain access to a list of benefits that they would not get if they make AMD and Intel graphics cards. No one is being forced to partner. And they are not excluding companies, so if ASUS continues to make AMD and NVidia cards then ASUS will not gain the extras. They probably don't need the extras, but there they are if they want them.
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I see it the other way (same facts, different spin :) )........

I see it as Nvidia telling manufacturers that they'll lose much of the access they already have unless they stop marketing AMD products with their premium ("gaming" is top seller these days) brands.

The list of benefits is something that top tier manufacturers already have so the implication is that they'll lose that access if they don't join the program. It's not something that'll gain them anything new.
 

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