Comments by "Martinit0" (@Martinit0) on "How Nvidia Won Graphics Cards" video.

  1. I had a Matrox card specifically for their good 2D performance (at the time I didn't care about 3D games).
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  2. I hadn't considered the "Nvidia taking control of the driver" as explicit as you said it. In fact, I suspect by doing that they helped all their card OEM customers taking away the burden to write and keep up to date their drivers.
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  3. B2B and B2C distribution are very different beasts. SGI may well have been capable of solving the technical challenge but then there is the go-to-market strategy that has to match the customer. Jon gave us right in this video the example of how you can fail with 3dfx trying to go from B2B (selling chips to gfx card makers) to B2C (selling finished cards to consumers). Fail you will if not prepared for differences in sales and marketing approach.
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