Thinking again about price points,

I'd now guess $349-449 for the 5870 and $225-349 for the 5850 at launch, if the 5870 is as good as we think it's going to be, it's a fair price choice being marketed as performing better than the 4870 X2 but having DX11, same idea with the 5850, better than the GTX 285 but it has DX11. This allows them to rake in the profit while still having a fair price point, and Nvidia won't have as much pressure to rush the product out.

Then when Nvidia comes into the market with their DX11 cards @ around the same price points, (which would be logical, because it's nvidia, and because it's supposed to be amazing and if it is then they'll be much better than ATi in the Price/performance area.) They can drop the price dramatically to $225-275 for the 5870 and $150-$175 for the 5850.