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What happened to geforce.com?

qubit

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NVIDIA retired its gamers portal, geforce.com, some time ago. Put that in your browser now and it simply redirects to nvidia.com.

I'm wondering why they've done it and lots of Googling has revealed nothing, so does anyone know anything about this?
 
qubit said:
NVIDIA retired its gamers portal, geforce.com, some time ago. Put that in your browser now and it simply redirects to nvidia.com.

I'm wondering why they've done it and lots of Googling has revealed nothing, so does anyone know anything about this?
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Honestly I think this happened when they revamped. Nvidia.com itself used to be a little bland all around, with various info regarding products and other information about software and investor relations taking the majority of the front page.

Now it seems to be more segmented (probably with the evolution of web code itself) with each product group and family clearly defined and information regarding them more easily in front of you in the sub menus.

Conjecture though, I have no idea.
 
idk, didn't want to pay for the domain name anymore?
 
@Solaris17 It's plausible, because the forum is still there along with the kind of content that they had at geforce.com. It seems that this was done silently with no site reporting it, which seems really odd to me.

@looniam lol I like it. :laugh:
 
My guess is that this is from a reframing of the GeForce brand. That said it might also have to do with other less prominent factors such as web browser cookie management issues. It is likely that Nvidia made this change based on 6-8 reasons, not just one even if some were more obvious than others. That is often the case with any major decision.

Note: It's easier to put everything under one top level domain rather than maintain two separate domains especially with today's cross-domain privacy protections in modern web browsers.

It's important to note that GeForce <> (is not) gaming. GeForce = (is) Nvidia PC gaming.

If you look at Nvidia Shield packaging, there is no prominent GeForce branding.
 
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