Mike,
"Savage3D gets even faster with latest drivers...Just when you thought Savage3D was at least slower in Quake II then V2, along comes the latest S3 drivers..."
So I guess your point here is that none of the other core designers will in the near term or in the future ever have improvements in their final core designs or in their drivers. Excellent.
"Hot games in the future will use DX6/OpenGL/large textures...Glide will slowly fade away. A little company in Redmond Wa will make sure of that...."
So...here you're saying that none of the hot games of the future will use any of the features that are specific to Glide, or perhaps you're saying that Microsoft will demand that the hot games must use large textures. Perhaps, both. Perhaps Microsoft will withhold licensing of Windows 98 to OEMs if they sell any hardware that supports Glide. It seemed to work well against Netscape...I got it now, consumers will swerve away from all those games that have the 3Dfx logo on them because in Windows 98, OSR1 the licensing agreement from MSFT will state quite clearly that the user is not allowed to use software or hardware supporting Glide. The branding that was an advantage to 3Dfx will turn into a negative and just in time for the Xmas sales boom.
I'll guess that you'll also agree that there isn't a buyer for the improved 2D performance that Banshee has over S3 and that none of the other graphics core vendors have any products in the pipeline that will beat the performance of Savage 3D. It's also seems pretty clear that Intel will stop dumping the 740 and probably even get out of the graphics business by the end of the year, since the only card that anyone will buy, OEMs or consumers, will be Savage. The good news is that all the graphics card manufacturers can return to high profitability because the only card they need to develop/produce will be one with a graphics core from S3.
SIII has made a real coup! Congratulations and thanks for helping us all out here.
Regards,
Jim
P.S. I thought that TDFX share value was doing badly until I took a look at the 52 week of SIII and their balance sheet. You would have thought that after the crellis reviews on the 9th and 10th that the stock would have shot through the roof. Damn market! The idiots can't seem to see the obvious...that you and Larry share. |
