Quote Originally Posted by weston View Post
I like your style saaya, you put a lot of thought into your posts!
sometimes

Quote Originally Posted by Bobsama View Post
The only thing, from a business standpoint, that you seemed to have forgotten is the impact of customer loyalty. My own assumption is that if the nVidia solution is within 10% performance of the AMD solution (meaning nVidia = 90%, AMD = 100%), the broader market will prefer nVidia. For a bit of proof on this assumption, take a look at how popular the 8500GT's, 8600GT's, 9500GT's, and GT220's are in the mass market, when compared to the HD3650's, HD4550's, HD4650's, and HD4670's. The AMD solutions are faster, priced similarly, but much less popular.
well, i took the prices from newegg because its the most popular shop in the us, by far, and there is no better way to meassure supply vs demand than to look at what people are willing to pay for a product, right?
there are always people that are willing to pay more, but i dont think they make up such a big percentage... if they would, then the average sales price on newegg would rise... get what i mean?
newegg prices are a good reference point imo for average demand of a product...

and the reason why the cards you mentioned were so popular was largely affected by oem deals i think... the cards you mentioned are the type of cards oem pick and system builders pick... thats a different animal alltogether... even guessing demand in the oem market is beyond anything you can achieve with google as your only research tool

i think nvidia has good relations with oems because they have a very tight grip on their board partners and supply, and can allocate huge amounts of cards if they want to... so if HP wants loooooots of cards, nvidia can basically make the deal and then tell different board partners to each send HP x amount of cards for y price. i think ati hasnt been able to deliver huge orders so well in the past... but im just speculating here...

Quote Originally Posted by Iconyu View Post
Actually, Carmack said that Rage doesn't look that great because the game is designed to run at 60fps, that's the target framerate and the detail level reflects this.

Doom 4 however will be aiming at 30fps on the same (maybe even tweeked) engine, this will show how advanced the engine really is.

Edit: Sorry I should really have looked for a link to back this statement up. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53713
i dont like the idea of 30fps... and i really dont like all those fps limitations in ut3 and doom3 engines that supposedly make the gameplay more fluid... if it works, cool... but so far i found it very annoying and not very useful...