Is there going to be 9900 series cards?

Is Nvidia going to release 9900 series, or is the new GTX 200 series what they will focus on?

I know the 9800 GTX+ is coming out some time, but will there be any 9900's in the future?

Knowing Nvidia, which no1 does, anything is game. We can even see a 7950 Revision for all we know

I'm surprised there's no 9850 GX2. But I think he 9900 series are just the 280s....really odd to lower the numbers and call it high end.

Thats why ATI is so easy...bigger number...bigger scores...generally speakin

I don't think its rambling if I learn something from it And I did!

Not really. It had become entirely too confusing, as there was no real rhyme or reason to nearly all of it. Had they named the 200 series the 9900s, it just would have made even less sense than it already did. It's ridiculous how many variations there were of the 8000 and 9000 series, and yet, how similar many were. Some literally are identical, like the 8800GS and 9600GSO. But what on earth about their name tells you that? You just had to know for yourself what the differences were, if any, which they assumed most people did, but at a certain point, they're alienating potential customers.

Since they were about to hit a 10000 series had they continued upon the same path, which I'd say should have marked a significant difference from the previous series, but would have just become hard to read, they made a good choice and just threw their old system out the window, although by basically wasting much of the remaining higher model numbers for nothing but gimmicky marketing purposes. I believe that's also why the 9800 GTX+ simply has the '+' added, as it's much more obvious than an entirely new random model designation.

ATI have gotten better about not tacking on seemingly meaningless letters to the model number, but their system isn't really much better. They already did the same thing by nearing a 10000 model, but they basically just rolled it over and kept on with the same system that has no real identifiable meaning. They've lost me on their system of having various R700 labeled GPUs, with little to no real relation to their corresponding HD4000 designation. At least the Geforce 200 names suggest somewhere around 200 stream processors and identify the name of the GPU.

This sort of stuff is why there are a gazillion computer hardware manufacturers out there, but only Apple really has any notoriety to the public, even if they just sell the same old stuff for a premium. Ridiculous serieses of numbers and letters are not remotely identifiable or marketable compared to easily memorable names.

I'm just ranting at this point, but it's so funny to see all the new "netbooks" cropping up from so many manufacturers. With so many similarities between them, you can tell which ones are destined for failure just based on their forgetable model designations consisting of meaningless and downright confusing numbers. I don't know how anyone hopes to compete with the "EeePC" or "Wind" with the "X092340923," and yet, many of them do it, anyways. It's amazing how out of touch with consumers they are.

lol more like -100 "Research" isn't apart of the human vocabulary anymore. Its more like,

OMG that card looks good, or 1 gig or RAM that must be awesome...or my friend said

At least thats what I encounter with my friends