AMD: NVIDIA Pays Game Developers For Implementing PhysX
Hard to believe it? Well, even for us! But if AMD is to be believed then this is indeed true. According to Richard Huddy, AMD’s senior manager of developer relations in Europe, game developers implement PhysX in their games not because they want to, but because they are paid to! Reportedly NVIDIA has a “marketing-deal” with developers under which they pay game developers for implementing PhysX. According to Huddy, game developers, with the exception of Epic, don’t actually want PhysX but they end up using it after all because NVIDIA pays them to.
“What I have seen with physics, or PhysX rather, is that Nvidia create a marketing deal with a title, and then as part of that marketing deal, they have the right to go in and implement PhysX in the game. The problem with that is obviously that the game developer doesn’t actually want it. They are not doing it because they want it; they’re doing it because they are paid to do it,” stated Huddy.
This is a serious allegation. Wondering what does NVIDIA has to say on this one.
[via Softpedia]
