A laptop with NVIDIA RTX is better than a console, according to the company's CEO
If there is a historical war, it is the one referring to consoles and computers. This platform war has intensified and it is not for less, since the consoles, at least, are usually a generation behind the PC. To spice up the debate, the NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, has said that the best gaming platform is laptops with RTX graphics.
The NVIDIA Chief Executive Officer Reference It is not going directly against Sony and Microsoft, but against AMD. Remember that Sony and Microsoft consoles will be based on RDNA and Zen. That is why during a conference to investors he said that the best console are gaming laptops equipped with an RTX.
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Our laptop business, as mentioned by our CFO, has been growing at double digits for eight consecutive quarters, creating an unquestionable new gaming category, as if they were a new console.
Jen Hsun Huang, NVIDIA CEO
If we look at a technical level, a laptop connected to any television is not far from a console. They offer the possibility of taking it anywhere and allows more functions than playing games. Actually the power of a laptop is greater than that of a console, limited in functions and that requires to be connected to a television.
Colette Kress, NVIDIA CFO, also noted that there are 125 notebook models with NVIDIA RTX. He also highlighted that the number of systems with Max-Q graphics has doubled, showing the potential of the company.
IDC, on the other hand, highlights that gaming laptops are the largest platform on the market with a growth of 12.7% last year. Last year an estimated 19.4 million units were sold, with a forecast of 26.8 million units for 2023. We can consider it an optimistic forecast, but the term gaming has become quite diluted.
Finally, Huang has talked about the RTX, specifically the RTX 2060, which they have recently lowered:
We have finally been able to lower the price of an RTX graphics below $ 299, so now it is quite a "sweet tooth" for gaming. On the other hand, RTX technology is having a fantastic acceptance and is already in the computers of users around the world
Anyone knows that a potential pc is better than any console no matter what it is (more expensive too) but what is the use of having an ultra powerful laptop if the games I want to play I can't have all for pc ... that's where the That man's mistake, having more power doesn't make you better if the content you want is not on your platform.
It is increasingly common for console games to end up on PC, although they are mainly XBox ones, and you don't have to look at the Halo saga on Steam, the triple A Detroit Become Human exclusive at the time of PS4 that they already have on PC , or the latest Gears of War among several examples. On the other hand, many of the PC ones never end up on the console, especially the strategy ones. And for content, only the Steam platform by itself already has a larger catalog than all the consoles put together.
Although this issue shows NVIDIA's strategy of counteracting that AMD has the console hardware market. He first tried it by launching the NVIDIA Shield as an attempt to take a slice of the console market pie. Then Nintendo was won over to have the Switch carry the NVIDIA Shield (Tegra) hardware. Although it has not been so relevant despite the good sales of Switch. And now with its GeForce Now streaming game service. I think this service is largely designed to compete with consoles.
Yes but you have to understand that you can't have everything in life, tell me where I can play the last of us 2 or super mario odyssey? at launch and natively on my pc, you can't because there are games that are part of an exclusive console catalog that no matter how powerful my pc was I can't have them... that's how it is, even if nvidia comes out and says that laptops are better than consoles anyone knows that but in terms of catalog power I can't say the same because I can't play all the games I would like to play and about "Geforce now" which service are they taking games from? if it continues like this I don't know what relevant catalog it will have... because activision and bethesda got off the bandwagon and EA since it has its own platform which is origin, geforce now will be left without relevant games.
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