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SOFT GAMING A BIG HIT IN CHINA
The Dutch Spill Group's Asian soft gaming operation is going from strength to strength in a market with huge potenial, according to Spill Group Asia's CEO, Marc van der Chijs, who also co-founded video sharing Web site Tudou.com.
Interviewed this week by China Interfax, van der Chijs said that despite regulatory challenges the huge potential of China's game industry has attracted many foreign companies.
China had 120 million online gamers as of the end of 2007 with online gaming industry revenues reaching RMB 9.36 billion ($1.29 billion) that year, up 57 percent on an annual basis, according to a CNNIC report. The report predicted that revenues of China's game industry will hit RMB 13.02 billion ($1.79 billion) in 2008 and RMB 17.03 billion ($2.3 billion) in 2009.
Government policy requires that overseas online games sites be operated in partnership with Chinese companies. However, there is no such stipulation for overseas-operated portals, which are simply required to register a company in China and apply for an Internet Content Provider (ICP) licence.
Van der Chijs's Spill Group, a Dutch company that owns Flash game portals in around 20 countries, was one of the earliest foreign game portals to enter China. In January 2006, it opened its Chinese office in Shanghai and, six months later, started to develop games for the local market.
These have been picked up by two Chinese portals and have also been translated into other languages for use by Spill Group's portals in other countries. Currently, Spill Group has two game portals in China: Game.com.cn was established in 2006, while Xiaoyouxi.com was acquired from a Chinese company in 2007.
"When we make a purchase, we take into account the person that manages the website, as well as its traffic," van der Chijs told Interfax. "A talented and professional manager is one of the main reasons we will choose to acquire a company."
Currently, Xiaoyouxi.com's average daily concurrent user number exceeds 1 million, and is rising by 15 percent to 20 percent per month. Game.com.cn's average daily concurrent user number, currently at 800 000, is also on the rise.
Though the purchase of Xiaoyouxi.com has been a success, van der Chijs said Spill Group has no further acquisition plans in China for this year. "Instead, we plan to cooperate with some mobile game companies and launch mobile games in China," he said.
The company will continue to focus on Web games this year. "Web games are one of the most interesting parts of Internet and growing very fast with much potential. They are the perfect kind of game for those wishing to relax but who have limited time."
The two main user groups that Spill Group targets in China are students and women over 30.
"There is a global trend that sees women playing more games. They are also a key target for advertisers," van der Chijs said.
Most of Spill Group's revenues in China come from advertising. Van der Chijs is positive about the country's online advertising sector, although it currently lags behind television and other forms of advertising. In 2007, television ads accounted for over 70 percent of the advertising sector's market share, while online advertising accounted for just 3 percent, according to figures from CTR Market Research provided by Interfax.
"It won't take long for online ads to surpass TV ads in China. The current problem is that most people in China's advertising industry are not familiar with Internet ads, but are familiar with TV ads. The same thing happened in the United States and the United Kingdom five or six years ago," van der Chijs said. "It's getting easier to make advertisers use the Internet in China. There is a lot of potential," he added. He said most of those advertising via Spill Group's China Web sites are electronics producers, games companies and cosmetics companies.
As well as earning money through advertising, he said games should look to selling virtual items to generate revenue, rather than charging users to enter games.
The popularity of Web games has also attracted Internet companies from other sectors. In April this year, China's largest search engine, Baidu, launched Youxi.baidu.com, a Web site dedicated to Web games, in partnership with Shanda, Gogo.net and 51wan.
Spill Group was founded by Dutch entrepreneurs Peter Driessen and Bennie Eeftink, and has become a major player in the soft games business, operating 30 game portals in 20 countries worldwide. It generates around 75 million visitors a month on a games inventory that contains 3 500 online games of all genres; casual games, skill games and download games.
Spill’s games are non-gambling, online games that can be downloaded to own for payment. Genres include puzzle, sport, racing, shooting, action and strategy games, which can be played alone or with several players.
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After the post-apocalyptic hellscape that was the RTX 2080 launch, NVIDIA is following it up with lessons learned for the RTX 2070 launch. By and large, technical media took issue with the 2080’s price hike without proper introduction to its namesake feature—that’d be “RTX”—which is still unused on the 2070. This time, however, the RTX 2070 launches at a much more tenable price of $500 to $600, putting it at rough price parity with the GTX 1080 hanger-on stock. It becomes easier to overlook missing features (provided the buyer isn’t purchasing for those features) when price and performance parity are achieved with existing products and rendering techniques. This is what the RTX 2070 looks forward to most.
Our EVGA RTX 2070 Black review will focus on gaming benchmarks vs. the GTX 1070, GTX 970, Vega 64, and other cards, as well as in-depth thermal testing and noise testing. We will not be recapping architecture in this content; instead, we recommend you check out our Turing architecture deep-dive from the RTX 2080 launch.
We come bearing good news -- sort of. It looks like DRAM prices might drop 5% by end of year, which would sadly be a sharp change of course from previous targets. This coincides with plummeting SSD prices (250GB 860 EVOs now available for $55 on Amazon), though isn't nearly as severe. At this point, we'll take what we can get.
Separately, Intel's 14nm shortage has continued to a point of creating pipeline stalls for some of its motherboard and SI partners. We previously reported on Intel's push to reinvigorate its 22nm process for low-end chipsets. It is now becoming clear why that was a necessity. Other than this, our show notes below recap major industry news for the past two weeks, like tariffs, 8th Gen pricing increases, and more.
It’s more “RTX OFF” than “RTX ON,” at the moment. The sum of games that include RTX-ready features on launch is 0. The number of tech demos is growing by the hour – the final hours – but tech demos don’t count. It’s impressive to see what nVidia is doing in its “Asteroids” mesh shading and LOD demonstration. It is also impressive to see the Star Wars demo in real-time (although we have no camera manipulation, oddly, which is suspect). Neither of these, unfortunately, are playable games, and the users for whom the RTX cards are presumably made are gamers. You could then argue that nVidia’s Final Fantasy XV benchmark demo, which does feature RTX options, is a “real game” with the technology – except that the demo is utterly, completely untrustworthy, even though it had some of its issues resolved previously (but not all – culling is still dismal).
And so we’re left with RTX OFF at present, which leaves us with a focus primarily upon “normal” games, thermals, noise, overclocking on the RTX 2080 Founders Edition, and rasterization.
We don’t review products based on promises. It’s cool that nVidia wants to push for new features. It was also cool that AMD did with Vega, but we don’t cut slack for features that are unusable by the consumer.
The new nVidia RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti reviews launch today, with cards launching tomorrow, and we have standalone benchmarks going live for both the RTX 2080 Founders Edition and RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition. Additional reviews of EVGA’s XC Ultra and ASUS’ Strix will go live this week, with an overclocking livestream starting tonight (9/19) at around 6-7PM EST starting time. In the meantime, we’re here to start our review series with the RTX 2080 FE card.
We're ramping into GPU testing hard this week, with many tests and plans in the pipe for the impending and now-obvious RTX launch. As we ramp those tests, and continue publishing our various liquid metal tests (corrosion and aging tests), we're still working on following hardware news in the industry.
This week's round-up includes a video-only inclusion of the EVGA iCX2 mislabeling discussion that popped-up on reddit (links are still below), with written summaries of IP theft and breach of trust affecting the silicon manufacturing business, "GTX" 2060 theories, the RTX Hydro Copper and Hybrid cards, Intel's 14nm shortage, and more.
AMD’s new Threadripper 2 CPUs are slated for launch in the immediate future. We have AMD Threadripper 2 specs, prices, and topological information for the 2990WX, 2970WX, 2950X, and 2920X, most of which have been detailed today. Additional details and reviews are pending publication from sampled outlets. We are not technically working with AMD on this launch, but are looking into review/test options. These will likely be pushed back past our move-in for the new office.
The new AMD Threadripper 2 2990WX will use cores enabled in dies 0, 1, 2, and 3 – so all 4 of the dies under the IHS – which more or less confirms Der8auer’s findings earlier this year. The 2950X and 2920X will be using dies 0 and 1, leaving the other two unutilized.
Between our process of moving into a new office with actual space for testing stuff, we've been working on hardware news videos and other content alongside office setup. This week's hardware news has heavy AMD focus, split between Threadripper 2 SKUs and specs, a new AMD console SOC, and motherboard add-ons for ASUS X399 boards. The add-ons include SOC and Vcore cooling modules, meant to help cope with overclocked TR2 VRM thermals and power delivery requirements.
Also in major news this week, New York state banned Charter communications (Spectrum, formerly TimeWarner Cable) from its state, and has given the company 60 days to leave. This is a major event in a world with duopolistic and monopolistic ISP establishments.
Intel's 10nm CPUs may have had their last delay -- and it's through the 'holidays' of 2019. Intel's latest earnings call indicates a finalized release target of EOY/holiday of 2019, continuing the saga of 10nm delays since 2015-2016. Note, however, that although TSMC and GF 7nm comparisons are prevalent, it's not as simple as comparing the numbers "7" and "10" -- density matters, as does architecture, and this is something we discussed with David Kanter in an upcoming video interview from GamersNexus.
Other hardware news revolves around a mixture of rumors and actual news, the latter represented by AMD's best quarterly earnings report in 7 years, and the former represented by Intel 9000-series specs and Samsung GPU development.
As always, the show notes are below the video.
Hardware news this week has been largely overrun with major movers: Micron and Intel are set to end their partnership on 3D XPoint, PC sales have grown for the first time in 6 years, Z370 BIOS updates indicate an 8-core CPU on the horizon, AMD Ryzen CPUs could be targeting more than 8C in 2019, Western Digital is shutting down a major hard drive plant, and more.
As always, our show notes for the episode are below, with sources and links to all stories. We've also got a video for those who prefer the visual medium:
We just arrived in Canada for LTX and should be working on some content featuring YouTubers in the space. In the meantime, another hardware news episode is due – and this one is heavily filled with industry goings-on, rather than product news. Our first topic is Intel’s debunking of brand death rumors, followed-up by a German court banning pre-orders with indefinite delivery dates, aiming to crack-down on some Kickstarter and Indiegogo failures. Further, AMD’s Threadripper 2 TDP has been re-confirmed by a slide for the Gigabyte X399 Extreme motherboard, which now has a finalized VRM design and layout. Memory suppliers are also back in the news this week, for the third consecutive week, this time with their own concerns about IP and patent theft.
Show notes below, following the embedded video.
Hardware news hasn’t slowed since Computex; in fact, this week has been among the busiest in months, with several news items out of the “Big Three” manufacturers. NVidia has seemingly purchased too many GPUs, according to GamersNexus sources (and verifying other stories), GPU shipments overall are trending downward, Intel’s CEO “resigned,” and AMD is working on Vega 20 and V340 products.
Other news for the week includes smaller items, like Be Quiet! opening a US service center and expanding US operations. Learn more in the video, or find the show notes below:
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