Sunday, June 23rd 2019
NVIDIA Joins Tencent E-Sports Technology Alliance as Founder Partner
NVIDIA was invited to attend the Global E-sports Summit and Tencent E-sports Annual Conference held in Hainan, Chinaon June 20th 2019. Tencent E-sports will establish E-sports technology standards in China, including technology of E-sports network, hardware, and broadcast to improve the management of the industry. As a founder member of E-sports Technology Alliance, NVIDIA is committed to constantly supporting the development of E-sports industry, boosting technological progress of the industry, and bringing better E-sports equipment to gamers.
In Tencent report, eSport market has been reached to RMB 13.8 Billion with 350 Million eSport users in China after years of development. Through the Tencent E-sports Technology Alliance, NVIDIA will work more closely with Tencent to level up competition equipment for the growing market with better PC gaming experience. GeForce and NVIDIA G-SYNC are the choice of many international top lighthouses E-sports events and professional teams to fuel up for their stable performance. NVIDIA has been supporting the professional E-sports players for years to provide them with competitive hardware solutions.
Jams Zhang, NVIDIA Global Vice President and General Manager of China, said, "NVIDIA has always been committed to leading the development of E-sports industry through visual computing. Along with GeForce RTX launch, we brought a whole new way to experience games. The number of ray-tracing titles is ever growing, and more and more GeForce players realize that the "frames" in E-sports could win games. NVIDIA will continually boost the industry with the all-new RTX platform to equip professional players and gamers.
NVIDIA, as the important partner of Tencent E-sports Technology Alliance, will always provide the best E-sports hardware and software products for gamers, E-sports clubs and E-sports lighthouse events.
In Tencent report, eSport market has been reached to RMB 13.8 Billion with 350 Million eSport users in China after years of development. Through the Tencent E-sports Technology Alliance, NVIDIA will work more closely with Tencent to level up competition equipment for the growing market with better PC gaming experience. GeForce and NVIDIA G-SYNC are the choice of many international top lighthouses E-sports events and professional teams to fuel up for their stable performance. NVIDIA has been supporting the professional E-sports players for years to provide them with competitive hardware solutions.
NVIDIA, as the important partner of Tencent E-sports Technology Alliance, will always provide the best E-sports hardware and software products for gamers, E-sports clubs and E-sports lighthouse events.
18 Comments on NVIDIA Joins Tencent E-Sports Technology Alliance as Founder Partner
And if your natural progression remark is about saying it's a new thing, it's not. Sports have existed for millennia, just in different shape and form.
I'm happy that Esports is growing.
Apart from that, watching a story heavy game being played like Alan Wake or so can be fun, its like watching a movie together really.
Its not about others playing games, its about people pulling together plays that you can't really see online playing with others.
Its about how teams work, about how scrims, compositions and preparation for matches is being done. Contrary to outside belief, there's a lot of depth in some of those eSports, much more than in some regular sports, and the people behind the teams work day and night to be able to pull it off on stage.
Some like it, some don't, like any other sport in the world.
If you consider entertainment on a meta level, isn't one of the most important things about it that it has the ability to 'surprise us' from time to time? For sports, that doesn't just happen the first time you watch it, like with a movie, but every single match has that potential. Football is a good example. Our Dutch team is pretty popular even outside our borders not because we're champions all the time, but because we deliver some surprising talent here and there, and sometimes get really far in a competition with football that is 'fun to look at' - while other years we don't even get to participate for being utterly shit.
No reason to get offended that he doesn’t like watching other sports either. To him it’s mindless. I personally like watching sports and going to sporting events, but I certainly don’t expect everyone to feel the same as I. If it is mindless to THEM, that’s ok by me.
edit: Just to add to this, the "art" in video games is in the design of them. To me anyways. At least for most games. Very few are open ended up enough to allow gracefulness and art for players. A good player is someone who has read predefined patterns and gamemaps and wins on his precision or familiarity with them. This is definitely a great skill, but I wouldn't say it's creative. I'd say the guy who made the map is the more creative one. I don't think this applies for many other real life activities. They leave a lot more room for the performer to make a unique mark and win in multiple, creative ways. And this is what is worth watching.
For the most part, the Star of the Show is the developer. It's a complete reversal from most other sports. I bet no one here even knows who James Naismith is (the inventor of basketball) or who created figure skating. The developers of these "rulesets" are lost in history, and the stars of the show are the performers. While the star of Overwatch will always be Blizzard, no matter how badass a kid in a tournament is.