NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was able to talk about another positive quarter in the Q2 2021 revenue call.
When asked by the investor to comment on the ‘gaming visibility’ for the second half of 2020, the NVIDIA CEO went out of his way to announce that it may very well be the ‘most amazing season ever’ for the sector.
We expect a really strong second half for gaming. I think this is perhaps one of the best gaming seasons ever and the reason is because PC gaming has become such a great format. The combination of great games like Fortnite and Minecraft, and because of the way people are playing now, their gaming and their e-sports, even F1 is now an e-sport, they hang out with friends. They use it to create other content. They use game recordings to create art. They share it with the community. It is a broadcast medium. The number of different ways you can play is just, really exploding. And it works on PCs, because all the things I described require cameras or keyboards or streaming systems – but it requires an open system that is multitasking. That said, the PC has become just such a great platform for gaming. And the second thing is that RTX, it’s a home run. We’ve really set up the bar with computer graphics, the games are so beautiful, and it’s really, really the next level.
It’s not that amazing since we introduced programmable shaders about 15 years ago. And that’s why we made programmable shaders better and better and better, and it got better. But there has never been a giant leap like this. And RTX brought both artificial intelligence and raytracing to PC gaming. And then the third factor is the start of the console. The game developers are really gearing up for a big leap. And because of how vibrant the gaming market is now and how many people around the world are dependent on gaming at home, I think it will be the most amazing season ever. We are already seeing great numbers from our console partner, Nintendo. The Switch is currently selling more than Super Nintendo, more than any Famicom, which was one of the best gaming consoles of all time. I mean, they’re on their way to making Switch the most successful gaming platform of all time. And that’s why I’m super excited for her. And that’s why I think it’s going to be an enormous second half of the year.
The elephant in the room that the NVIDIA CEO did not address is the upcoming launch of the company’s new series of graphics cards, the Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3000. NVIDIA has not officially said anything about it yet, but they have a countdown to an event that will take place on September 1st, where the new GPUs will be formally unveiled. According to rumors, their availability should start in mid-September.
Beyond the purely financial standpoint, however, there are many reasons for gamers to be as excited as NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang for the upcoming gaming season, with two next-generation launches and many exciting game releases (Marvel’s Avengers, Crash Bandicoot 4, Star Wars: Squadrons, Watch Dogs: Legion, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Cyberpunk 2077, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, just to name a few). Stay tuned to Wccftech to get all the latest updates on both games and hardware.
