Originally Posted by artifice
Nvidia sent Sony a check to gimp ATI cards.
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Not really, they just wanted a leg up in making sure they hold their spot as the most powerful high performance cards. PhysX 3.0 is improving CPU performance which is basically improving ATI cards while offering nothing to Nvidia users.
Nvidia really can't use physX to gimp ATI cards because a lot of PC gamers use ATI (also both Nintendo and Microsoft use ATI hardware in their consoles), so if their system isn't going to work well on both game developers will simply avoid adopting it which defeats the entire purpose of them buying the technology in the first place.