The GeForce 2 MX was actually a steal at the time it was released it was one of the best-performing budget cards ever.

Price normally relects performance in this market. This single-pipe combo card performed worse than a single Voodoo 2, and offered no SLI upgrade path. Your venerated 3DFX is also guilty of such actions, by releasing the Banshee six months after the Voodoo 2. Nvidia already pissed off the world by releasing the TNT2 M64, which performed worse than the original Riva TNT. This was standard practice well before Nvidia released the GeForce 2 MX. That card was actually worse than the card I already had AND the GeForce 1 Ultras I saved my pennies and bought a GeForce2.MX.and found out what a horrible decision that was.

It is a win/win for hardware manufacturers and developers. sell in quantity with less marketing, R&D, and loss and sell billions of games. Same for Game consoles, standardize, build them into consumer electronics. I know ATI and Nvidia will never try to standardize, nor will they slow the flow of cards with small increases in actual performance at high prices, but if they would PC's could actually get utilized to their fullest potential (hell this 7800gtx TURNS OFF TRANSISTORS to save power, just showing how under-utilized and un-needed they truly are) The FX line of cards had the ability to be great but needed to be programmed for directly, and because of trying to cover ATI and other vendors none of the cool features ever saw daylight (remember the cloth/trasparency demo's) If there was some standardization and a slowdown the industry could focus on content rather than FPS in a two or three year old game that doesn't utilize ANY of the new cards features. In the current state NONE of the features of current cards are being utilized properly.Įver notice how it takes a year or so for console games to really begin to shine? This never happens because in 14 months 8-10 cards have come and gone.

This is precisely what is wrong, we need stagnation so that developers can actually focus on and utilize a video card.

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