Seems like a lot of people got burnt by ATi/AMD over the years and have since turned into Nvidia-only users. I'm among them.
I know a monopoly is bad but when one company keeps fucking up and the other one doesn't it's no surprise that things will get one-sided. What we need isn't pity purchases but more companies in the market and that's rather difficult with a product that's as complex and research intensive as these cards. I expect the console contracts to keep AMD alive even if it loses hard to Nvidia on the GPU market.
Though I also seem to remember worries about Nvidia's survival in the past due to Intel being "good enough" for most and Nvidia not having a fallback market.
I know a monopoly is bad but when one company keeps fucking up and the other one doesn't it's no surprise that things will get one-sided. What we need isn't pity purchases but more companies in the market and that's rather difficult with a product that's as complex and research intensive as these cards. I expect the console contracts to keep AMD alive even if it loses hard to Nvidia on the GPU market.
Though I also seem to remember worries about Nvidia's survival in the past due to Intel being "good enough" for most and Nvidia not having a fallback market.