My siblings have told me to explain it to him but he keeps asking questions . Your parents are the ones that need to explain it to him <| sep |> No , it isn ' t . It is drawing a distinction between company that deliberately did something that hurts everyone in the hope it will benefit them in the long run versus a company doing something that benefits their consumers and their competitor doing the same thing and you trying to attribute it as a bad thing . The more attempt at distiction , the more they sound the same . In the end they both brought forward cool new tech that benefits everybody , and they both have it more proprietary for own commercial considerations . Then enter the following statement If Nvidia hadn ' t developed Gsync , AMD wouldn ' t develop Freesync to compete leading to even less consumer choice . Oculus was also major firstmovers of currentgen VR . I don ' t know where will it be if Luckey with help of Carmack did not generate the buzz and excitement back then . Nvidia releasing Gsync is a positive for the consumer , so is AMD releasing Freesync to compete . You ' re trying to assert as if that AMD releasing Freesync suddenly reduced consumer choice and are trying to make it seem like Nvidia is anticonsumer as a result despite them doing anything anti consumer . This is an interesting spin . FreeSync is good for consumers because it is openstandard and adoptable by anybody . It increases choice . Nvidia can and should embrace it , though they don ' t have to . Nvidia ' s policy was already anticonsumer from the getgo because it works only on their cards and carries a substantial price premium . It already reduces choice ! The everything was good before FreeSync narrative is simply ridiculous , if I may use your favorite superlative . Stop being this obtuse . What you ' re essentially saying is If they don ' t do what I demand they do , they are clearly against me ! Or the classic If you ' re not with me , you ' re against me . Unfortunately , reality doesn ' t work like that . Another companies ' actions doesn ' t suddenly make them anticonsumer . Yet you ' re trying very hard to assert that . Are you claiming consumer entitlement attitude now ? Even before FreeSync , adaptivesync buyers face vendor lockon and premium price , which is less choice . Freesync improves the scenario , though now adaptivesync customers suffer from the platform incompatibility and Nvidia can easily change that . The price is gouged by the retailers , not Nvidia . There is a FE price premium already set by Nvidia , before retailer markups . Gamers have no choice ? You literally have the aftermarket coolers . Again , with demandsupply constraints the users have to pay the extra premium for FE . They should wait , sure , but it is still pricegouging by Nvidia .