I don’t normally agree with Linus. And I like nVidia alot but this is some shady stuff right here.
I didnt know nvidia expected this of reviewers.
Thoughts?
This is why im happy AMD is finally becoming competitive again.
This part right here from Jay is t-shirt material🤣
Could anyone who watched the video write in short what is this about? Or is there any written article about this?
Yes a TL:DW would be nice to have the cliff notes.
Evil karma Nvidia gets publicity
Yeah thats the gist of it.
I know that Oculus makes “suggestions” about what reviewers should talk about as well.
All of the popular youtubers got Quest 2 weeks early but the once who didnt comply like Matteo311 had to wait like everyone else.
Nvidia is like the Borg.
Making suggestions does not have to be bad. Imagine you are introducing a new product with some new cool features and you know youtubers will miss it, or misunderstand it, or otherwise approach it wrong way (or do not approach it at all). Sometimes when watching some “reviews” on youtube I wish they received some “easily understandable suggestions” before the review as well 
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I guess I should add that forcing “suggestions” on reviewers is bad.
It’s just clickbait drama for their channels. And to make themselves appear like honest reviewers with integrity.
I pretty much don’t watch any video that has Linus, so I didn’t watch this. But from the comments, I don’t really see any “evil”. 
The letter from Nvidia to HWunboxed said literally
“You don’t get FE GPUs anymore and we kick you out of review business because AIB models come later when most review money has been made elsewhere. And that’s only bcause you didn’t emphasize the feat. heavily that let our product shine above the competition but think the viewers should look at other values.”
It can’t get much worse for free press, its dictatorship by product vendors of mono or duopoly.
Yeah but @rsbell sees no evil. lol
Free press refers to governmental interference, not whom a company decides to give free graphics cards to. Don’t be so melodramatic.
You work for nVidia?
He’s making a partial good point. However Nvidia’s letter on why not sending a review Sample does look like “if you won’t give us the review we want were not sending you one”.
Depends though as some samples are sent as a loaner and some are gifted. If there normally “gifted” then it just creates the appearance of buying good reviews.
All this means is that Amd will have more golden opportunities to push forward. Causing the Nvidia Ceo to blow a gasket like he did with “Eye of Singularity Benchmark”. At least once Amd rolls out there version of DLSS and formal DXR etc…
Ha no. I don’t disagree that it’s shady not letting some reviewers have early access to cards to review because Nvidia doesn’t like their reviews. Nvidia has the right to pick and choose who they allow early access to, and you would think they should stand by their cards such that they wouldn’t be worried about bad reviews.
But Nvidia has no legal or contractual (as far as we know) obligation to give anyone access to early review units.
It’s very possible Nvidia thinks these 2 guys were more interested in clicks than in giving fair reviews. However, it does appear that Nvidia is being punitive because they didn’t like the reviews.
That’s certainly bad, but “evil”? Come on.
True it’s not like the was it Nike fiasco? When it was found children were making there product in some of the countries.
This was also the kind of thing that Ended Kathy Lee Gibbard’s career with Regis.
I’m not sure what you’re saying.
Are you saying that not giving access to a review unit is similar to conscripting a 9 year old to work in your factory?
No what I said is Nvidia is not like
Another words calling Nvidia Evil is a bit harsh. Corrupt and shady maybe. Evil no.
Ah, ok. Sorry I didn’t understand what you were saying.
I think your take is spot on-Nvidia’s actions are unfortunate, and certainly bad for its brand, but in the hierarchy of injustices it doesn’t really rise to the level of “evil”.
No worries, I should have been more clear in what I was getting at. 
