Quote Originally Posted by GoldenTiger View Post
I hope this post is a joke. In case it isn't, I'll respond. With the dollar depreciated, it matters a lot more on price. The line of "there's a higher card priced above that" is bull, marketing hook line and sinker.

As far as card prices? My 9700 pro ran me $320 on launch day. My Ti200 ran me about $220... my Voodoo 3 3000 ran $299, my V5 5500 ran about $350, my GF4 Ti4200 ran me about $200, I skipped the 5/6 series, 7900GT ran $250 for me at launch, 8800GTS 640 was the most expensive I ever bought at $380 and it seemed out of this world expensive. Since then I've bought a pair of 8800GT 512 cards for $250 total after a $30 rebate for SLI. The whole "but they've always been expensive!" thing is absurd and reeks of buying into marketing hype that spins things like a top.

Again, cards should not run $650... it's a *RECENT* trend with the 8800GTX and probably this GTX 280, not a long-term thing that should be coddled and appreciated for giving us tech "early" (yeah, right! early my arse). As consumers we should be appalled at such absurdly high prices... it's not like the economy is in a great time period, either, let alone the fact that it's basically ripping you off at those prices.

Try again with something reasonable, please, as to why video cards should run $650 for the high-end when they never have/had in the past?



Well, that's silly to do when the Ti200's were around $220 on Black Friday deals near launch and performed nearly as well when overclocked . It doesn't make it any less of a rip.
No, the Voodoo3 3000 was never $299. I know, because I bought it at launch day for $200 from CompUSA in April 1999. Unless you were an idiot... LOL!

Quote Originally Posted by [XC] hipno650 View Post
i hate to say it but.

6800 ultra was over $600
7800gtx was over $600
7800gtx 512 was over $700
7900gtx was close to $600
7950gx2 was over $600
8800gtx was over $600
8800 ultra was over $800
9800gx2 was about $600

granted the prices dropped (some fast) but at launch even the good e-talliers were at those prices. all newish Nvidia high end cards have been at over over $600 at launch and with the specs the GTX 280 is boasting i will gladly pay over $600 for that beast of a card. some people seem to be forgetting that it is rumored to have the second gen shadders which are up to 50% faster clock per clock tot he old ones. so you take way more shadders, faster clocj per clock shadders, more TMU's, more ROP's and bigger bus width. that's one HECK of a card you have.
Not just Nvidia!!! ATI's X800XT was at the same $500+ price point, with the rare platinum edition running at well over $650. I got my X1900XTX at $500 off Ebay when it was selling for $599 at CompUSA for many months later.

But, if you gotta blame it on Nvidia, you can say that the first $500 gaming card ever was the GeForce 2 Ultra! Remember that? Voodoo2 SLI was $500, but that was for 2 separate cards...