Quote Originally Posted by Rollo View Post
Your problem is your expectations are from a consumer perspective, not a business perspective. You want as much as possible as fast as possible for as little as possible. Companies only want to maximize profiit because that's what keeps the lights on and the engineers working.
My expectations is to have a healthier industry which is not artificially slowed down. No different than what we had 5 years ago when nVidia rolled out 8800GTX even though the 8800GTS was enough to absolutely kill the competition. If you have what is best -out there- the sooner, the better it is for the whole industry (from a technical point of view) given that the industry will *have to* move faster.

Sure nVidia is also business out to make a profit but also she is the benchmark of hardware development on home computers which has actual, tangible effect on our lives. In short the faster we get the best parts out in the marker, the faster the industry will evolve and the faster it will have solutions to whatever problems may come about. Home computing (on in itself) is a luxury no different than a car yet the development done there affect the society at large multiple times more than any super-car would.

Just think of the applications that such computing is starting to have for medical purposes, scientific purposes. At first we'll get a few more frames, but the side-effect (of the development that gives a few more frames per second) is huge and cannot be ignored. For more purposes than one we have a supercomputer stored in the tiny shell of our GFX cards and the faster it develops the better it is for all...

What can make the industry like it was (is the real question), not why nVidia doesn't release its high end parts (if there are those around to begin with).