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First off: congratulations on this monthly bonus. I have no doubt spreading this drama was on some people's main KPIs for this quarter and they achieved it right on time for
diverting all the attention about Nvidia's shittiest ever hardware launch.
From the sheer amount of times you and certain others refer to and quote me, it seems you got convinced
we share the same line of work but for competing entities.
We don't. I have a more accomplishing and important job than posting on forums to defend companies from the shit they make, a job that sometimes gets me too occupied to post here for several days in a row.
As for AMD's current stance over this subject, it's indefensible. They fucked up. At this point they might as well come clean and say they're paying for DLSS2 to not be adopted. Best case scenario is they're not making anyone sign a temporal upscaling exclusivity deal but their PR team is so terrible at their job they made the entire internet think they do. Most likely scenario is they got caught pants down and the executives+PR team have been completely inept at reacting and clarifying how and why they're doing it (and whether or not they're going to change their method henceforth).
That article from WCCFTech is still completely dishonest in the way they start talking about "sponsored" but then proceed to make a list with only the "bundled" games to paint a false narrative.
There are many more DLSS2-only games than FSR2-only even among 2023 releases, meaning there's a good chance Nvidia is also paying/coercing developers to not implement FSR2. They simply don't care about lying to our faces.
Regardless, AMD is looking terribly incompetent at this point. Saying "no comment" and then waiting for the thing to go away has obviously generated a streisand effect about it and is probably the worst thing their PR team could have decided to adopt.
It is not hard to find out what games were bundled by AMD or Nvidia (
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added games that were never bundled by AMD/Nvidia). The very first post in that thread specifically mentioned bundled games,
as the article did.
The article mentions "sponsored" in the text, but then proceeds to make a list about
bundled games to paint a dishonest narrative.
If we take a look at some of the most recent NVIDIA and AMD-sponsored releases, we would see that almost all NVIDIA-sponsored titles had DLSS and FSR support at or soon after launch. Every title except Battlefield 2042 had DLSS/FSR support added to it. The only reason Battlefield 2024 didn't have FSR 2 support was that the upscaling technology wasn't available at the time of the launch.
Looking at the other camp (AMD), out of the 13 or so sponsored AAA titles, only 3 titles received support for DLSS. This is something to be concerned about since these are major AMD-sponsored titles and game developers might have been asked to keep upscaling technology exclusivity to the Radeon camp since there's no reason to not have DLSS or XeSS support within these titles. Even in Intel's camp, the company has been very open in the integration of its own and competition tech in AAA titles.
Had they made a list with
sponsored games like they wrote in the article, it would look like my list and they'd have no grounds to be asking AMD and Nvidia to comment on the article. Someone working for Nvidia probably tipped them off or even paid for the article's publication altogether, and it worked like a charm. Then their own army of forum / twitter crusaders took care of spreading the message within hours, of course.
Again, anyone looking at all the lists comparing DLSS2-only to FSR2-only games would never think of "asking AMD and Nvidia to comment on technology exclusivity". Even if AMD does engage in contractual blocks of competitor technology, that part of the "concern" was completely made up by WCCFTech.