NVIDIA Quad SLI Disappoints

Vigile writes "While the death of PC gaming might be exaggerated, it's hard not to see the issues gamers have with the platform. A genre that used to dominate innovation in the field now requires a $1200 piece of graphics technology just to participate, and that's just plain bad for the consumer. NVIDIA's SLI technology was supposed to get a boost today by going from two GPUs to four GPUs with the introduction of Quad SLI but both PC Perspective and HardOCP seem to think that NVIDIA drastically missed the mark by pushing an incredibly expensive upgrade that really does nothing for real-world game play and performance. If PC gamers are left with these options to save them from consoles, do they even have a chance?"

Comments

Clearly it's the end of PC gaming!

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone released hardware that has yet to be taken advantage of! It must be the death of PC gaming forever! No successful industry has ever released a single product that flopped because it was before its time! clearly the failure of a single Nvidia product to deliver massive speed boosts to games that weren't made with it in mind, spells the doom of not only PC games, but the PC itself.

Re:More to games than graphics

[Anonymous Coward]

You're absolutely right. PC gaming isn't dead. Why, I even played Warcraft II for four hours yesterday!

Re:Oh please

[neocrono]

But... has Netcraft confirmed it?

Re:$1200? Why not just go outside then..

[Alioth]

The trouble is, in "real life", you don't respawn when you get shot.

Re:Oh please

[RazzleDazzle]

Also, BSD is dying. BSD has been dying for a long time. This is the first I personally have heard about PC gaming is dying. Oh well, join the club, it's a really long and slow path to extinction.