Its about time. I know its not good for the companies to make less money but they were charging way too much a short while ago.

I got my 8800GTX shortly after it dropped and it cost me $650 dollars. I can get 2 9800GTXs for that much now. Makes me a bit sour but i'll live, I know that is the way it goes.

I simply like that you get so much more for your dollar right now.

That's because the high end 9xxx series was basically not all that impressive, at least if you were coming from a 8xxx series.

Wait till you see Q4 of '08. After the initial wave of first adopters the 280/260 series are going to fall flat on their face. Why? No 10.1 support. It won't matter what 10.1 gives, the fact that a refresh will be around the corner that will include 10.1, or that you can get 10.1 from ATI will decimate sales.

And the 9xxx mobiles are a joke, much like their desktop counterparts. Those will languish for longer, more like a year or more as the 280/260 MOBILE chips will take a year or more to come to market because there is just no way to make that hot a chip into a mobile. They'll have to wait for a 45nm version and that's FAR, far away.

2008 is going to be a pretty unimpressive year for Nvidia. And 2009 brings Larrabee and that will take the wind out of 2009 too.

Nvidia is starting to remind me of Creative...

i like pie charts... where are the fucking pie charts for christ sake... i like pie also...

Nvidia "managers" are busy talking how AMD will lose, however they abviously did not read news here on xbit labs :)

why everyone is complaining about nvidia? if you don't like what they do, go back to 1980 and use calculators instead of real computers.

Not suprising. How long did they think the consumers would keep shelling out £300+ for the latest and best graphics card? Especially when they are not even effectively used, and get superceeded iwhtin months.

i wish people would stop comparing quarter 4 to quarter 1 and yelling that the sky is falling every year. do you honestly expect q1 sales to exceed holiday sales?

Discrete gfx is on the way out. Integrated is on the way in!

No one is to blame for this but nvidia itself. The people that bought 8800 GTX / GT didn't want to bother upgrading to the 9XXX series because the cards were barely an upgrade. If nvidia was smart they would have made the 9xxx series much more impressive. Then they would have actually sold something.