Quote Originally Posted by Rob94hawk View Post
I remember when the ATI X800XTPE was going for $500+ on the day of launch. That was back in 2004 and it was the top of the line back then. IMO it's pretty in line by today's standards.
Im pretty sure the first card to cross the $500 barrier was the 7800GTX 512MB and everyone thought it was absurd. IMO, everything done in the past 5 years has just been a money grab for the most part. I mean seriously, its how many years later and Crysis 1 is still the best graphical FPS game? Its not that video cards are progressing that much, but more that games have stopped progressing.

2005: "How do we make more money? Lets find a way to sell more than one card to each customer instead of improving upon 1 as much as we have in the past. SLI Invented, profits go up."
2013: "Anyone remember that we can just make a good single card? Oh yea! But lets charge the price of 2 of our usual cards just to make up for having to do something. We'll then wait a few months and release a chopped down version which would normally be $500 and we'll charge $650 and people will think its a deal! lol"