Originally Posted by
tajoh111
People just want to save money which means buying in competition conditions. They might not even go with the gk104, they just want a price drop and/or more performance for the dollar. If you go back to the original 79xx thread, the very lowest people had for performance expectations was 30% faster than the gtx 580. This was considered to be on the more negative side. Most were expecting 50% faster, some were expecting upwards of 70 and 80 percent. In addition, with the pricing, people were not expecting the card to be this expensive(the 7970). When consumers settle on price and performance when expectations are clearly not met, we are basically doing exactly what a company wants to make as much money as possible. It is why companies like apple are so rich or let EA sports get away with releasing the same title every year at the same cost.
Unless a product sets a high bar, in which a competing product is not likely to be much better, something like the 9700 pro or gtx 8800, I don't see the harm in waiting. The only harm is if a particular game won't run on the hardware you have, a problem which people on this board really don't encounter.
