Quote Originally Posted by Xoulz View Post
Or, a 5870 @ $299, or the GT300 for $499..? If Nvidia doesn't have a DX11 $199 part soon, they will loose massive market share and loose $Billions in stock. It doesn't matter how good the GT300 actually is, if only 40k uber-hardcore people ever buy it. The 5870, for the foreseeable future, is good enough for almost anyone needs.

Millions of people will be buying or upgrading their stuff for the Holiday Season. Nvidia will miss out on all those sales.
I think you're exaggerating quite a bit here. Several months without a $200 DX11 card isn't going to cause NVIDIA irreparable damage, or even the millions in lost sales that you claim. The simple truth is people aren't upgrading at the feverish rate that they used to, back when PC gamers had exclusives like HL2, Doom 3, Far Cry and UT2k4 to look forward to. It's not just that the 5870 is "good enough", because not a lot of people will be buying that card either, as it's still in the enthusiast price range. Rather, it's more because there aren't many upcoming bleeding-edge, AAA PC exclusives to galvanize sales.

Besides, this is the first time NVIDIA's been late since 2002. I think they'll survive this generation.