Great post by Mythbuster420 at EVGA forums , is the industry laughing WITH or AT PC gamers ?

With $650 for an incremental change , Gee I wonder. :rollseyes:
Well, actually... The 8800GTX/ULTRA is a different beast.... Its the only card I can remember that lasted ( still "lasting" ?) almost 1 1/2 yrs as KING of the crop...I just did not expect the same kind of monster released this time simply because of lack of competition from ATI.. I wont go into the wholwe marketingbuisness 101 crap, but they wouldnt release new hardware that they have in the wings unless they have to in order to make $... That would be just plain retarded from a buisness standpoint. I am fairly certain both companies have the technology already developed to keep up w/ demand for at least 3-4 years in advance.. Meaning you can bet that right now, in some room at nvidia, sits some freaking monster of a core / prototype card etc that will run crysis at 100 fps MINIMUM.. If you dont believe that , then you are in denial lol... But the card makers dont release tech just so they can say "hey look what we made".. They do it for 1 reason.. TO MAKE MONEY.. Its always been my belief that the card makers have enough technology already developed to last at least 3-4 years in advance.. But only let it out "AS NEEDED".. or as they need to just to keep "ahead" of there competitors.. Sometimes we see "stop gap" products released to get by w/ out having to release there "next level" stuff if they dont really have to.. the GX2 is exactly that.. INTEL does the same things w/ cpu's all the time.. another name for it is the "tick tock" method..In a perfect world, each new card would be twice as powerful as the last card.. in EVERY ASPECT, EVERY RESOLUTUION ETC.. But of course this isnt that world.. Ive been growing more and more depressed with the continuing incline of the PC hardware ( mainly vga's / GPU's ) makers efforts to what seems like trying to make PC gamers comepletely dependant on buying new hardware every 6-12 mnths... Now with the birth of "SLI" and "Crossfire", these companies have the best possible avenue of milking every last hard earned cent from us PC gamers.. I used to have a crappy DELL and always longed to be part of the "leet" pc gamer club.. The ones with the uber pc's that could play any game at max settings.. I always felt "left out" and that I was missing soo much... It wasnt untill I decided to build my first $ 2.5k PC that I realized that its just not all that its made out to be..There are so many dishonest,imorrall and sometimes just plain outright illegal practices by software/hardware manufactures that I really do believe that PC gaming is currently the worst platform for entertainment ( bang for buck ) there is..And now with "SLI, Crossfire, TRI SLI".... These companies are going to the next level of gayness and trying to make it so ( some ) ppl have to buy 2-3 600.00+ video cards just to play a 50.00 game "the way its meant to be played" .. Right now is THE WORST time for anyone to be into PC gaming or building/benching as a hobby.. ANd if things do n ot take a turn soon I think PC gaming as we know it ( somewhat mainstream ) will die and the only ones that will be able to play a game the first 3 years after its released will be people that have way more money than sense..