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