All good points made on this subject......................
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The bottom line of this business:
Price per performance ratio.
This works in different ways guys.
The route that AMD/ATI is taking is a very good route.....it's geared for mostly mainstream consumers AND those enthuiasists who also value costs....the have my cake & eat it too folks. Nothing wrong w/ that at all.
Nvidia has taken the 2nd route in most all instances & it has worked very well for them:
Build the fastest, most powerful product out there & you can command the cost/price for it because there will be no lack of demand for it because nothing can compete with it. When the competition catches up w/ you, unveil another product to reestablish your position. This approach also works as long as parity is not achieved in the genre because most enthuiasists simply want the best they can get their hands on & costs are not a showstopper. Notice I said enthuiasists--not mainstream. There is a difference. Just ask Intel.
This is exactly what Nvidia is doing w/ Fermi-& the gamers will get the benefit of it. Nvidia is in no hurry.
This current phase between ATI & Nvidia is nothing new. 8-10 years back the same situation presented itself w/ the ATI 9700, 9800, X800 series. What happened after that? Just because the name changed from ATI to AMD/ATI upped the anti in the game but the game didn't change at all. Same o same o.
History has a funny way of repeating itself.
IMHO, Nvidia's focus has indeed shifted......................
.....toward taking on Intel.
This is my 2 cents on this discussion. I'll let y'all know how the GTX295 works out!
