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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Monday, 20 October 2008 13:12 |
Gitex 2008: Let's boost our sales
We've learned that a few Nvidia partners will ship Far Cry 2 bundled with some of their more expensive cards. This should look similar to the Crysis bundle that a few partners made last year; but we also learned that this time, Far Cry 2 won't cost partners that much.
Nvidia is kind of desperate to boost sales and has to use all the tricks it has in its sleeve. Nvidia's chips are inferior to ATI's ,and therefore they have to either drop the price and include the candy in the bundle, if not both. What goes around comes around, and Nvidia has to learn how to survive as a graphics underdog and this is not the position where Nvidia feels comfortable.
Far Cry 2 will look good as a sticker in the box and getting this game together with your card is definitely something that will make some people deflect to Nvidia just for the sake of the game.
The irony of this situation is that Far Cry 2 will use some DirectX 10.1 features and currently Nvidia doesn't have a single card that can cope with DirectX 10.1. Nvidia would rather wait for DirectX 11 to upgrade.
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