[fudzilla] Nvidia spends 5 million on Ubisoft deal

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Assassin’s Creed 5 and Watch Dogs
Nvidia has close ties with Ubisoft and every now and then it tries to voice its support for 4K gaming.

We do know that Nvidia already has some Assassin’s creed demos with 4K textures that are supposed to look amazing as Nvidia agrees with AMD thinking that future of gaming is in 4K gaming.

Our industry sources now tell us that it’s just AMD spending serious bucks on the Battlefield 4 deal. It turns out that the guys behind The way it’s meant to be played and Nvidia ISV (independent software vendor) relationship have spent about $5 million on their Ubisoft deal.

It involves two games, Assassins Creed 5 and Watch Dogs and our sources tell us that AMD was looking into a similar deal with Ubisoft, but it walked away simply as they believed that spending a similar or slightly higher amount on an AAA shooter like Battlefield 4 was a better deal – plus BF4 is the first game to support AMD’s new Mantle API, so it just made more sense.

The PC game industry cannot be happier, as two top companies are competing for attention, practically courting developer and publishers.
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Only thing I have to say about this is ubisoft can't seem to get DRM right--not that I prefer DRM. But I bought Driver SF (which I wish I didn't, by the way), and their DRM literally broke my ability to play the game. Maybe they can take Nvidia's money and fix their DRM problems.
 
Nvidia got 2nd pickings? Interesting, I think AMD got it right though, BF4 is a much better showcase game for Mantle.

Plus the stigma of being associated with ubisoft's DRM is nothing to be proud of really. But nvidia does have to do something.
 
Big companies spending tons of cash on PC-centric development and advancing the visuals of modern titles!?

What is this, dreamland? Happyville? Fantasy island?

But seriously it's awesome.
 
Yakk said:
Nvidia got 2nd pickings? Interesting, I think AMD got it right though, BF4 is a much better showcase game for Mantle.

Plus the stigma of being associated with ubisoft's DRM is nothing to be proud of really. But nvidia does have to do something.
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I think its great titles. Don't care so much about AC5, but Watch dogs is a game I am having an eye on. A big stepup from the free-to-play games virtual money bundle Nvidia had earlier. :)
 
I think this means when we buy our next Gfx cards, we'll just be paying more as these deals aren't free.
 
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