Well the card isn't made for you or me. Its made for kids of some rich people, at the beginning.
Good point there. I'm definitely not eager to spend that kind of Ching, but luckily there are some people out there who will. I still think the thing should be resoundingly better to cost almost twice as much. Similar to the P4, it seems that both are positioned as hedges against future developments. "Just wait till 'X' is optimized or 'X, Y, & Z' games ship".
I think you got this totally wrong... rememeber always that are more eaters to this pie than nVidia.
That's nice, but who the fuck cares how much profit nVidia gets? I still spent $500. Is your point that I should feel sorry for them and that this is a justified cost regardless of the performance? No, I think your point is that I should have said "People will be paying ~$500 for these things" instead of 'nVidia will be getting ~$500 for these things". Thanks for the lesson in nitpicking.
This is a little depressing if you consider how much ass the NV20 was envisioned to be able to kick when it first was announced. Too often the shipping products aren't quite the revolution they seemed in that initial glowing press-release. Yes, it sounds great to be able to get higher framerates at the higher resolutions with better picture quality. To that extent this is a sucessful upgrade. But as the article mentions, NVidia will be getting ~$500 for these things. We should be able to expect all-around ass-whooping of the GF2 Ultra and especially the Radeon at that price.
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Well the card isn't made for you or me. Its made for kids of some rich people, at the beginning.
Good point there. I'm definitely not eager to spend that kind of Ching, but luckily there are some people out there who will. I still think the thing should be resoundingly better to cost almost twice as much. Similar to the P4, it seems that both are positioned as hedges against future developments. "Just wait till 'X' is optimized or 'X, Y, & Z' games ship".
I think you got this totally wrong... rememeber always that are more eaters to this pie than nVidia.
That's nice, but who the fuck cares how much profit nVidia gets? I still spent $500. Is your point that I should feel sorry for them and that this is a justified cost regardless of the performance? No, I think your point is that I should have said "People will be paying ~$500 for these things" instead of 'nVidia will be getting ~$500 for these things". Thanks for the lesson in nitpicking.
This is a little depressing if you consider how much ass the NV20 was envisioned to be able to kick when it first was announced. Too often the shipping products aren't quite the revolution they seemed in that initial glowing press-release. Yes, it sounds great to be able to get higher framerates at the higher resolutions with better picture quality. To that extent this is a sucessful upgrade. But as the article mentions, NVidia will be getting ~$500 for these things. We should be able to expect all-around ass-whooping of the GF2 Ultra and especially the Radeon at that price.