A Twitter account surfaced two weeks ago, suggesting that 3DFX Interactive would be coming back. Now the reason we did not report on this was because it was fishy as hell. And we were right as this was a trolling attempt and nothing more.
According to that trolling account, Jansen Products acquired the 3DFX’s assets in mid-July. And when I read that name, I immediately deduced that this was someone trolling people. After all, NVIDIA’s CEO is called Jensen Huang. See the similarities? Jansen… Jensen.
Yesterday, the trolling account issued a press release that was full of errors. I won’t be posting it as it doesn’t really make sense to share fake press releases.
After getting some of the media’s attention, the Twitter account revealed that it was basically trolling and that there wasn’t any “Jansen Products” company.
I mean, the writing was on the wall. And don’t get me wrong. As a big 3DFX fan, I’d really love to see that lovely spinning logo once again on my screen. But let’s be realistic here, this won’t ever happen.
And that is that. 3DFX Interactive is not coming back.
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Shows how much research “journalists” do these days
Nah, it’s a peer pressure matter. If everyone is reporting on it and grabbing attention and clicks, you can’t afford not to. Unless you dare miss on some of that traffic.
You can afford not to, you just have to have standards and integrity. Or you can be a clickbait wh*re like the rest.
Yeah, but that’s the discussion about standards vs business… And… Most of the times it’s not a compromising topic so the business gets more weight in the balance
True journalism died in the Nineties.
doesn’t matter really. with the kind of market we have today some people out there did wish for another legit GPU maker. hence why this kind of troll able to grab some attention.
Honestly, a bit of a shame we could really use competition in the GPU market, especially on the low end of things.
Hey at least Nvidia has someone trying to catch up..and I heard the new AMD cards were pretty solid actually for non RTX stuff
That’s a good question, but luckily their CPU’s are killing it, and their GPU’s power the PS5, xsx and steam deck. I think they got the resources to keep at it
I personally would have been happy if even Intel bought the name from Nvidia for their upcoming dgpu’s.
trust me you dont wnat to go back to that era that every company that shouldnt be making gpus, made gpus.
we still have several legit GPU maker. Qualcomm have their Adreno , Imagination with their long running Power VR and ARM Mali. the problem is none of these legit GPU maker want to enter discrete GPU market. competition is one thing but the consumer for discrete GPU market also very demanding. they want the hardware maker to support their GPU as long as possible. look how people are complaining about AMD ending Fury X support only after 6 years.
Same thing happened with Interplay a week or two ago.
plus nvidia bought 3dfx anyway from what i remember.
funny thing is graven had a 3dfx mode, it removes the pixelization effect and puts reflective surface effects.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c00326f1ad502ed75da5f690458178b7fd167a2f086a43fee766cda6bf69808f.jpg
I wonder if the trolls can make a post about Matrox or S3 graphics.
matrox still exist. but even their current product are using nvidia or AMD GPU inside.
U did great job John. Unlike wccftech and pcgamer who want as many as visitors to their website. Although it’s a troll they still publish it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5U_FnQFBH8