You seriously don't believe that the publishers have a right to any cut of the revenue for a service using their content ?
OK then we'll ignore the legal argument for a second and pretend that the courts did rule in favour of the supposed defendent, Nvidia because even if they did win their case the publishers would have another means of punishing Nvidia.
Remember when I said that developers controlled their source code ? Did it cross your mind that they could also control the performance characteristics for each hardware vendors ? What if because of Nvidia's bad behaviour, instead of making their games perform normally on Nvidia hardware they would rather place in a bunch of slow paths to make their competitors look better ? Developers might not be obligated to get their fair share but that also means they aren't obligated to optimize their graphics code on a hostile vendor.
If Nvidia wants to bring a fight to the developers then the latter is more than prepared to write anti-vendor code. Hardware has died out before (Itanium) because of politics so what's one more mean to the history books anyway ?
OK then we'll ignore the legal argument for a second and pretend that the courts did rule in favour of the supposed defendent, Nvidia because even if they did win their case the publishers would have another means of punishing Nvidia.
Remember when I said that developers controlled their source code ? Did it cross your mind that they could also control the performance characteristics for each hardware vendors ? What if because of Nvidia's bad behaviour, instead of making their games perform normally on Nvidia hardware they would rather place in a bunch of slow paths to make their competitors look better ? Developers might not be obligated to get their fair share but that also means they aren't obligated to optimize their graphics code on a hostile vendor.
If Nvidia wants to bring a fight to the developers then the latter is more than prepared to write anti-vendor code. Hardware has died out before (Itanium) because of politics so what's one more mean to the history books anyway ?