Just a conjecture but it seems to me that Nvidia has found out about the performance of these cards way before us. This would explain the overpriced 8800gt and it's unavailability. I believe Nvidia's actual price for the gt is around $300. However, after knowing about the 3800, they got scared of the 3800's availability/price and decided to be sneaky (think of what would've happened if the 3800 was released first). So, Nvidia tried to release the GT early to undermine the 3800, this results in a shortage. Second (this is where Nvida messes with us), they promise the gt to be in the 200-250 dollars range to be super competitive to the 3800. The fact is that Nvidia has fooled us, they never intended to sell that cheap right off the bat. Instead, they made a promise to keep us happy (happy but screwed none-the-less). So in the end, we are here waiting the the GT to go down in price to kick the crap out of the 3800s, because Nvidia has brain washed us into believing that those two card are in the same price range. Mark my word but you'll probably not find a $250 gt within 3 months of it's lauch, which is plenty of time for Nvidia to cut it's price to the promised "250". Sorry for the long post, I am pretty excited now that the two companies are actually "competing" again. Ofcourse this is just my imagination, if the 3800s come out to be close to $300 too then all of what I've wrote is crap.
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Just a conjecture but it seems to me that Nvidia has found out about the performance of these cards way before us. This would explain the overpriced 8800gt and it's unavailability.
I believe Nvidia's actual price for the gt is around $300. However, after knowing about the 3800, they got scared of the 3800's availability/price and decided to be sneaky (think of what would've happened if the 3800 was released first). So, Nvidia tried to release the GT early to undermine the 3800, this results in a shortage. Second (this is where Nvida messes with us), they promise the gt to be in the 200-250 dollars range to be super competitive to the 3800. The fact is that Nvidia has fooled us, they never intended to sell that cheap right off the bat. Instead, they made a promise to keep us happy (happy but screwed none-the-less). So in the end, we are here waiting the the GT to go down in price to kick the crap out of the 3800s, because Nvidia has brain washed us into believing that those two card are in the same price range. Mark my word but you'll probably not find a $250 gt within 3 months of it's lauch, which is plenty of time for Nvidia to cut it's price to the promised "250".
Sorry for the long post, I am pretty excited now that the two companies are actually "competing" again. Ofcourse this is just my imagination, if the 3800s come out to be close to $300 too then all of what I've wrote is crap.