You actually think this would work? You think they could actually do this with LESS backlash then what they are receiving now? Cause I'm thinking I want to both have my card and own it too. If Nvidia starts controlling what people do with their cards, you are talking a very slippery slope.
Yes and no. It will cause that but there's little else that can be done and to me at least, the rest of the choices are even worst.
Yes I think that pragmatically, it would actually work and would get people that purchase gaming specific hardware just gaming hardware.
You are correct in assuming this
will lead into closing PC hardware very quickly even: There's nothing stopping Nvidia from just black listing things like games they don't want people to play or selling the same tech as the ultimate DRM: Nobody without a copy we say is white listed can play so much like consoles it becomes hardware level DRM protection.
But honestly the fact that we already
only have 2 major vendors for PC GPU hardware and only 1 of them also for console hardware means that we've been moving into this territory for a while.
So the options as I view them are the following:
1) Do nothing (This is where we're at, but is not very sustainable to just bet on cryptos failing when they might not for too long)
2) Close everything down and accelerate into basically an Nvidia console environment and an AMD console environment but for PC (So just replace Sony and Microsoft with Nvidia and AMD)
3) Propping up a third vendor that cares about the things AMD claims to care but isn't stretched as thin with too many battle fronts as AMD is (Something has to give and this is, and will continue to be, Radeon division)
To me 3) is not feasible and has no chance in hell of happening. 1) Would be fine for me since I have little to no interest in AAA gaming but assuming one does, you have to bite the bullet and at least consider 2)