Reality is for non-gamers

looking at nvidia's latest video card, I can't help getting the feeling that computer technology is being driven by the demands of modern animated multimedia, of which gamers are at the cutting edge.


It used to be that you attached a video card to your computer,  but now it's almost the reverse.  And since the processor has to be able to feed those brutes....

This is great for old farts like me - just wait for the kid next door to need the latest game, and I can buy last year's state-of-the-art pc for a song!

In fact , is gaming the only thing keeping the desktop going?