Recent content by moest

Saying that there are also applications other than games that require heaps of processing power is all well and true, but would these applications be designed to need such processing power or graphical strength if video games weren't around to HELP push hardware to be as powerful as they are...

Maybe I should reword this. Post-war development, would computer technology be as superior today without video games pushing the constant improvement of hardware? As in, if you removed video games from the picture, would it be likely that computer hardware would be around 6 months to a year...

What I mean is that without video games, as an example, would companies such as NVIDIA and ATI strive to create newer, more powerful graphics cards as much as they do now? As I see it, most of the ambition behind this gear is for gamers who want next-gen gear for technologically demanding games...

I'm doing an assignment for school and I'm trying to find out how big a difference video games have actually had on the computer industry in terms of development. So I was wondering, would the technology surrounding us today in computers be as fast/powerful today if video games had never been...