AMD announces Never Settle Reloaded bundle

[piesquared]

http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-...mpaign-Includes-Crysis-3-Bioshock-Infinite-an


Wicked bundle just announced from AMD includes a mixture of Crysis 3, Hitman Absolution, Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinate, Sleeping Dogs, DMC: Devil May Cry, Far Cry 3. That's quite the list of AAA titles under the Gaming Evolved development program! Awesome for gamers this is.

I like this slide

 

[SirPauly]

Nice, thanks. CrossFire bundle is awesome!

 

[Insomniator]

Excellent! May upgrade my 560ti 448 for crysis 3 and this will certainly push me towards AMD, if the performance is there of course.

 

[piesquared]

Another great write up here from HardwareCanucks.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ever-settle-game-bundle-reloaded-updated.html

Dual GPU cards(New Zealand) also count towards the 6 game crossfire bundle, and the ASUS ARES II includes an 8 game bundle.

 

[DarkKnightDude]

Bioshock, Crysis3 , and Tomb Raider? Wow they're really going all out.

Isn't Crysis 3 an Nvidia title?

 

[sontin]

Crysis 3 is like BF3: Both companies using the game for their advertising.

It's fun to see that they updating their never settle programm even before the old one is over. I guess there is a TITAN coming which forced them to go active.

 

[Dankk]

Tomb Raider and Bioshock for free when purchasing a 78xx card? AMD is absolutely killing it with their deals lately. If I didn't already own a 7870, I'd be buying one right now.

 

[RussianSensation]

Excellent bundles. Even lower priced $150 cards like HD7850 are getting Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider. With this deal, you could get 2x Sapphire Dual X HD7950s for $560 (or similar 7950s), get 6 free games, and with overclocking you'd be staring at GTX680 SLI/690 performance for nearly $400-450 less. At the same time this almost surely means HD8900 series isn't going to launch any time soon. This sounds like a Q1 promotion; so probably no HD8000 series until Q2 at the earliest. I think this bundle may be even more impressive as a lot more people will want Bioshock Infinite and Crysis 3 over say Sleeping Dogs and Hitman.

I guess there is a TITAN coming which forced them to go active.

I doubt the Titan has anything to do with it. $150-200 HD7850-7870 or even HD7950/7970s do not compete with the Titan. Not everyone is going to be buying HD7900s in 2s anyway. Also, the whole point of the Titan is to escape the CF/SLI scaling issues, which means no one who is buying the Titan will be seriously cross-shopping HD7970s against it. It sounds like it's a way to target GTX600 series.

 

[Yuriman]

How do you take advantage of this bundle? Is it bundled with specific cards or do you redeem it when you buy a new card on their site?

 

[KevinH]

Tomb Raider and Bioshock for free when purchasing a 78xx card? AMD is absolutely killing it with their deals lately. If I didn't already own a 7870, I'd be buying one right now.

They're tossing in Bioshock and C3 with the 7950.

That's crazy...if you didn't want those games, you can EASILY sell them seeing that they're not even out yet.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Now they announce this after I pick up a card.
Oh well a 6870 for $85 shipped wasn't a bad deal either way.

 

[Crap Daddy]

Good. I will buy a cheap Crysis 3 key code soon.

 

[RussianSensation]

How do you take advantage of this bundle? Is it bundled with specific cards or do you redeem it when you buy a new card on their site?

You just get a game coupon that you enter on AMD's website and then you get sent the key(s) for those games to your email. Then you can redeem the keys on Steam once the game actually launches. You can see these coupons are already up on Newegg for different GPUs.

 

[tviceman]

AMD is kicking ass on the game bundle promotions. They are stealing all of Nvidia's thunder when it comes to high profile game / developer associations. Nvidia has had very few high profile games in it's TWIMTBP program lately. I don't think Hawken is burning up the PC players charts, while Call of Duty BLOPS 2 and AC3 were nearly a straight up ports. Other than Borderlands 2, there has been very few high profile TWIMTBP titles that generated excitement. Not counting Crysis 3 (since it pretty much today that it got the GE label), but Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite, Deus Ex HR, and Far Cry 3 shows AMD putting in more effort than Nvidia in promoting PC gaming. I dislike AMD's pop shots towards Nvidia though. I hate it when either side tries to slander the other; it just feeds the trolls and fighting and makes whichever company doing it look low and unprofessional. Lately, AMD has been doing quite a bit of it.

Rhetorical question: Has Nvidia moved their resources to concentrating on the Tegra brand????

 

[Crap Daddy]

AMD is kicking ass on the game bundle promotions. They are stealing all of Nvidia's thunder when it comes to high profile game / developer associations. Rhetorical question: Has Nvidia moved their resources to concentrating on the Tegra brand????

Probably. I think both companies have a hard time selling discrete cards for a PC market in agony. This year will be very tough.

 

[Ferzerp]

Probably. I think both companies have a hard time selling discrete cards for a PC market in agony. This year will be very tough.

I think it's safe to postulate that the mid to high end discrete markets are far less affected by a decline in desktop sales because those markets are specifically one that has no replacement in a smaller form factor.

 

[blackened23]

Good grief, that is an incredibly good bundle. Kudos to AMD for that, looks like they're targeting developers aggressively (AMD is now doing all EA games from what I hear)

 

[Crap Daddy]

I think it's safe to postulate that the mid to high end discrete markets are far less affected by a decline in desktop sales because those markets are specifically one that has no replacement in a smaller form factor.

I would reduce that only to high-end which is tiny market overall. People are changing their habits dramatically. Mobile is destroying everything.

 

[Ferzerp]

Not sure that many other than desktop gamers buy anything but the lowest end parts, so I'm not going to agree there.

 

[ED-209]

Dang, I wish I would've waited an extra month to buy my 7970. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed the games I got but I'd much rather have Crysis3 and Bioshock.

 

[Yuriman]

Probably. I think both companies have a hard time selling discrete cards for a PC market in agony. This year will be very tough.

No doubt.

I'm finally trading in my 4870's for a 7000 series. I bought my HD4870 for (I think) about $175 back in 2008. Here in 2013, its performance is somewhat between an HD7750 and an HD7770, which are around $90 to $110 right now. Not a lot of incentive to upgrade.

 

[badb0y]

Holy crap that's a lot of games lol.

Also I thought this was funny, they were listing the graphical features for each game and this is what they had for Crysis 3.

 

[DiogoDX]

I want to know what TOP SECRET DX11 EFFECT they are working for Tomb Raider.

 

[Ferzerp]

I want to know what TOP SECRET DX11 EFFECT they are working for Tomb Raider.

Umm, DirectCompute jiggles. Duh.

 

[Plimogz]

I wonder how it would work for somebody who buys one 79xx, (let's say with a sweet MIR), redeems his code for Crysis and Bioshock, and then, maybe a couple of weeks later, comes across an irresistible deal on a second 79xx: would the first card still count towards getting the 6 game bundle? or would one necessarily have to redeem both cards at the same time?

In any case, those are some very solid free(ish) games. Nice to see some good bonuses coming with new VGA's once again; seems like it had gone by the wayside these last couple of generations.