Games

No, its not the wrong take.

If Nvidia, and its vastly more blackbox/proprietary code approach than AMD, wanted to actually be successful absolute little shits, then they would have software engineered a way that they would actually be able to enforce the arbitrary throttling of their hardware capabilities.

Instead theyve managed to fail at preventing those who purchased older model cards from enjoying the benefits of better software, better drivers (basically), even though the goal of the company is to drive more of their customers to buy their latest models.

They managed to fail at preventing their cards from being software modded, basically jailbroken, without even needing to mod the hardware, to have vastly superior performance.

So, yeah. Their software engineering (firmware, whatever) department failed at enforcing company policy/directives/market strategy, its entirely their fault, their responsibility and are thus they not good at their jobs.

Yeah, they know that their own older card models are a huge chunk of the competition against their newer models, and their software devs have now fucked up in a way that makes consumers more likely to buy cheaper, older models instead of the more expensive newer models.

Or, even worse, maybe consumers will now be more likely to realize NVidia arbitrarily caps hardware performance that some random unpaid nerds can fix with a free software update, while Nvidia's PR is telling everyone that there is /some reason/ that a huge tech company just cant do it. That makes the company look untrustworthy publicly, which makes more consumers more likely to simply purchase products from a competitor with a better reputation.

I do not know if you have ever worked as a software dev for a large tech firm, but I guarantee you right now some Nvida team leads are screaming at their programmers vis a vis the logic I just outlined.