aye why go through all that R&D money making the next gen chips if you only have a few 'buyers' on the market
you show sony, microsoft and nintendo your latest chip set and so do all the others (with an exclusivity deal no doubt) so sony buys chip A microsoft chip D and nintendo chip C ... so if their is a 4th card manufacturer they have no console market (i only know of nVidia and ATI but if their WERE more gpu manufacturers than consoles someone would loose out)
render farms are always going to want the next best thing (is SGI still going i last heard of them round the N64 days)
as are CGI artists in general as their software now needs as much oomph as possible, even if their game isnt coming to the pc they dont code on the console itself
im sure psp and photopaint now rely on better gfx (i remember how fast corel draw was on a low end 486 with a cirrus logic chip set compared to a faster one with just vanilla vga ditto for doom our other shoppers bench mark)
and we as pc users have reached that point where we expect to have some form of whiz bang gfx card even if we only ever watch DVD's and play spider solitair outside of office apps
you show sony, microsoft and nintendo your latest chip set and so do all the others (with an exclusivity deal no doubt) so sony buys chip A microsoft chip D and nintendo chip C ... so if their is a 4th card manufacturer they have no console market (i only know of nVidia and ATI but if their WERE more gpu manufacturers than consoles someone would loose out)
render farms are always going to want the next best thing (is SGI still going i last heard of them round the N64 days)
as are CGI artists in general as their software now needs as much oomph as possible, even if their game isnt coming to the pc they dont code on the console itself
im sure psp and photopaint now rely on better gfx (i remember how fast corel draw was on a low end 486 with a cirrus logic chip set compared to a faster one with just vanilla vga ditto for doom our other shoppers bench mark)
and we as pc users have reached that point where we expect to have some form of whiz bang gfx card even if we only ever watch DVD's and play spider solitair outside of office apps