Nvidia confirms the GTX 580

[Jowy Atreides]

Middleman? Partner? What are you on about?

NVIDIA's board partners continue to be the only ones selling directly into the retail / supply channel. Past a specific promotion where Best Buy ASKED for NVIDIA-branded cards, you won't see anything but partners' cards being boxed up and shipped into the channel.

Except for in the picture I just posted proving this wrong. You know, the one where nvidia brands and boxes the cards themselves and screw the partners.

Partners might get token cards but will be blueballed on actual quantitative supply until nvidia has farmed the initial release cheese from their own sales initiative.

What I'm "on about" (go learn business pronto) Is a thing called profiteering.
People don't work for free and there is a ponzi chain of business profit all the way from factory to shop floor.

Nvidia designs cards, sells them for x money.
Partner creates/receives then supplies money for x money + pp (partner profit)
Web store or real world store receives card stock from partner and sells it for x + pp + sp (store profit)

Stop trolling about such obvious things as middlmen. EVERYONE knows this basic stuff.

Nvidia blueball their partners, get initial gouged sales price with TWO LEVELS of the profiteering removed.